Max knew what might happen and started to slightly shiver due to remembering bad memories.
"Stella no. Please no. Maybe some day but not today. I still have doubts about myself." Max said and Stella stepping back. Knowing why, she walked to him and hugged him. Max was still shaking but stopped when he passed out. He saw nothing but pitch black as he fell down the depths of his mind.
"What are you doing!" Max heard a little kid yelling. Max turned to see who it was and it was him when he was a kid. His younger self was looking down an alleyway with three adults blocking it and their kids beating up a little girl in the alleyway. Max knew what this was, it is a memory of his first friend that died.
"Max...I...w-will a-a-always..." stuttered the little girl just before she died. Max hated this memory because not only his first friend died, but also when he knew he is a freak.
"I'm I'm...I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL!" yelled the kid Max in anger as he lunged at the other kids. All went black again as Max realized something. Max's first friend died because she was friends with him, because he was different that she died and he still blamed himself. "All...because*sniff*...I am a freak...no a monster." Max said to himself. Then the memory showed Max something, It was his kid self covered in blood and dead bodies in front of him as he stared down at them with fear in his eyes.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" the kid Max yelled as he kneeled down and looked at the life-scarring never did know happen in between or never know why he didn't yell for killing, but for the loss of his first friend. The yelling kept getting louder and louder as he shook in bed. "Stop stop stop STOP!" he yelled as he woke up falling on the ground, but unfortunately he fell on his left shoulder. "Argh! Dammit." he yelled softly. He got up and stumbled to the bathroom to fix his wound. When he got in he undid the bandage to see it still bleeding. He took a shower and when he was done he look at the mirror. He never liked looking at himself in a mirror and after that dream he was hating it. He punch the mirror making it crack and his right hand bleed. His teammates heard this and knocked on the door.
"Don't worry it's all fine." Max told them and they all just looked at each other and shrugged. They went to their beds and Max got changed into his normal clothes and walked out after bandaging his left shoulder and his right hand. He walked to his bag from earth, opened it up and looked through it. He found a pair of black gloves and decided to put put them on.
"Your hurt." someone said behind Max. He turned to see Stella still up and worried over his friend.
"Don't worry about. Since it's a Saturday let us go to the city shall we." Max said.
"Okay. You're not going to sleep again are you?" Stella asked.
"Nope sorry. Need help going to sleep?" he asked and she nodded yes.
"Okay what song?"
"Fireflies by Owl City."
"Okay"
Stella than layer back down while Max got his stereo and put it at a low setting as he started Fireflies by Owl City.
'You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies,
'Lit up the world as I fell asleep,
'Cause they'd fill the open air, and leave teardrops everywhere,
'you'd think me rude but I would just stand & stare,
'I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly,
'it's hard to say that I rather stay awake when I'm asleep,
'cuz everything is never as it seems,
'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs,
'as they tried to teach me how to dance,
'A foxtrot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed,
'A disco ball is just hanging by a thread,
After Max stopped singing, Stella fell asleep.
Team MAXM was in the town with team JNPR and RWBY. Stella, Killy, Nora, Pyrrha, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang went to go shopping. Max, Mickel, Jaune, and Ren was just looking around. Max came across a music store and saw a guitar. The rest of the guys just looked at each other until Ren asked "Do you even have any lien at all?" Max shaked his head making them facepalm.
Meanwhile with the girls.
"So what's with Max?" Ruby asked.
"What do you mean?" Weiss asked and Ruby just nodded.
"I did notice that he seems more...distance today." Blake said earning a nod from Yang.
"I wonder why?" Pyrrha asked getting a shrug from Nora who went back to talking about here dream or something.
"Distance? Gloves? Wait Stella do you think he had that nightmare again?" Killy asked Stella who in returned told her what Max said. "Great now he won't sleep again for who knows how long." She said as she sighed. "Did he sing you to sleep?" Stella nodded "Okay. Let's not tell the other unless Max want to okay." Stella nodded again as they jogged to catch up wit the other girls.
"Thank you. Please come again." the cashier said to the boys. Max has his new guitar in it's case, a guitar pick, and some guitar strings.
"Why did I have to pay for it again?" Jaune asked he checked his wallets to find no lien whatsoever.
"It's an even deal, you buy me this stuff and I make breakfast for your team." Max said reminding him of the deal.
"So what's with the gloves?" Mickel asked making Max cringed.
"It's nothing." Max said turning to them. They saw his eyes turn to something with a weak smile. It was obvious that it was his down face, but he turn back when they started to walk again.
They continued to talk and walk to meet up with the others. They meet up with each other at the airships to get back to Beacon.
"You play the guitar? That's so cool. Can you play a song right now! Well not right now right now but at Beacon wh*muffle*" Nora was trying to say when Ren covered her mouth.
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When they got back team ANML and Velvet sent Max a message saying that they were sorry about the other day. Max replied saying it was okay and started to walk with the others to their rooms. The others notice that Max had a brief down look. His eyes seem to turn a bit fazzy or blurry with a weak smile, but returned to normal. They all were about to ask when Killy and Stella told them not to.
Later that night when everyone was asleep except for Max who was watching a movie from his laptop that was in his bag and was wondering how they were gonna charge his stuff when they run out of battery. He thought of asking professor. Ozpin later for some supplies. He looked over to his new guitar and thought what song to play. He thought 'why not Demons from Imagine Dragons?'.
'When the days are cold and the cards all fold'
'and the saint we see are all made of gold'
'When your dreams all fail and the ones we hail are the worst of all'
'and the blood's run stale'
'I wanna hide the truth, I wanna shelter you'
'But with the beast inside, there's nowhere we can hide'
'No matter what we breed, we still are made of greed'
'This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come'
'When you feel my heat, look into my eyes'
'It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide'
'Don't get too close, it's dark inside'
'It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide'
'Curtain's call, is the last of all'
'When the lights fade out, all the sinners crawl'
'So they dug your grave and the masquerade'
'Will come calling out, at the mess you made'
'Don't wanna let you down but I am, hell bound'
'Though this is all for you, don't wanna hide the truth'
'No matter what we breed, we still are made of greed'
'This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come'
'When you feel my heat, look into my eyes'
'It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide'
'Don't get too close, it's dark inside'
'It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide'
'They say it's what chu make, I say it's up to fate'
'It's woven in my soul, I need to let chu go'
'Your eyes they shine so bright, I wanna save that light'
'I can't escape this now, unless you show me how'
'When you feel my heart, look into my eyes'
'It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide'
'Don't get too close, it's dark inside'
'It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide'
Max stopped, took a breath and went back to his laptop. Little did Max know, most of the first year students heard him singing as they all went back to sleep and wondered who that was. Only Teams RWBY, JNPR, and ANML knew who that was singing in the night.
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