We begin to see an angrier side of Arizona that no one sees before...that involves jealousy.
Arizona's Jealousy
Throughout sometime...Arizona has looked over most of the Hazards, seeing how Max is spending a little time with them more and the grey wolf seemed to be a little bit scared about the fact that most of them are stealing Max away from him. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became and he pounded his fist on the wall and just walked into the training hall.
He decided to take out his frustrations out on every single training equipment he thought possible and released his envious fury and as soon as he punched the crap out of the dummy, he kicks it so hard that it was sent flying through the training hall and immediately shoved at Tigress, just as she was coming in the training hall.
In response, she immediately let her instincts take over and took it on Arizona, but what she didn't expect is that Arizona beat the holy freaking mess out of her and slammed her down in every which way possible and ended up throwing her against the wall as hard as he could.
She thought that she was gonna get Arizona back, but the tables were turned...which didn't really sit well with her.
Soon enough, Arizona took a chance to take a deep breath and regain his energy to nearly take everything out on the training hall and Tigress saw this as destruction, but she could tell that something was bothering him deeply and she stomped on his tail to stop, making Arizona howl in response.
He glared at her and asked, "Why did you step on my tail?! You don't see me stepping on yours!"
She has never seen Arizona that mad before and she said, "What is wrong with you? You're normally not like this!"
"What's it to ya?!" he barked back.
"Well, for one thing...the training dummy hit me hard and you beat me down as hard and almost destroyed the training hall." Tigress explained.
Arizona scoffs at this and said, "So what if I did? I just needed to take it out on something."
"That's no excuse for you to do what you did." Tigress retorted.
"Like I freaking care! Just get out of my face before I swipe it down for you!" Arizona screamed.
Tigress had no idea that Arizona was mad about something and even if she wanted to get mad at him back, he'd still have to take his anger out on him and wouldn't stop until he finds something to hurt her completely. But one look into his eyes explains something...a single tear almost coming out.
Her face quickly softened up and just stood there, speechless.
She took a few seconds to calm herself down before something else goes wrong and she said, "Something's wrong."
"You're still here?" asked Arizona.
"Yes, I am. Can you explain to me why you're angry all of a sudden?" asked Tigress, in the calmest way possible.
Arizona just stood on the edge of the wall, trying to keep his composure down and just lets out a heavy sigh and replied, "It's Max."
That surprised her the most to know that Arizona's angry at his tiger brother for some reason and she asked, "What did he do to you that made you want to take it out on me and this room?"
"Well...whenever I see Max with the rest of the hazards, it just made me feel hurt, scared, angry...almost as if he likes them better than me." Arizona replied.
That's when it hit her...
"You're jealous, aren't you?" asked Tigress.
Arizona looked up at her like she was crazy for asking him that type of question and he said, "Why?"
"Because you assume that Max hangs around more with them that he's leaving you behind and wouldn't be your brother anymore. And that you're afraid that he'll replace you with them." Tigress answered.
Arizona stayed silent throughout and the more he thought about it, he knew she was right. He hated to feel anger towards Max because that's his little brother and the last thing he would do is intentionally hurt him on purpose out of jealousy. He lowers his head down in shame and lowers his ears down for a while and he said, "I'm sorry."
"For what?" asked Tigress.
"Taking it out on you. I guess I just needed to blow some steam." Arizona added.
"I understand. Just not in the right way though. Max will always be your tiger brother and you'll always be his wolf brother and nothing's gonna change that...period." Tigress stated.
Arizona nodded his head in agreement and he said, "To be jealous of my brother is ridiculous. I don't like hurting people...at all."
"I think you need to talk to Max about it." Tigress suggested.
"Okay."
As Arizona departs from the training hall, Tigress stopped him for a second and she said, "Hit me with the training dummy again and your tail's gonna be mine for 2 weeks."
"Sorry about that." Arizona said.
"And I didn't fully enjoy being beaten by you, but at least your strength's progressing."
Several minutes later...
Arizona makes his way to the barracks to find Max and he eventually found him in the kitchen and he said, "Hey, Max...how are you?"
Max looks up and sees Arizona walk in and he immediately leaped onto him and gave him a huge hug, which was unexpected...but he was happy to receive it anyway.
"Max...am I still your wolf brother?" asked Arizona.
Max smiled at him and he said, "Of course you are...forever and always. Why?"
Arizona sat down for a second and he tells Max, "Well, you and me don't hang out like we used to because you were always around most of the Hazards. I was kinda scared that you like them more than me."
Max looks at Arizona in the eye and he said, "I'm still your best buddy. I just felt like I wanted to meet some new friends because your friends are my friends like my friends are your friends. But brothers are forever. I would never choose them over you because you're a part of my family."
That seemed to warm up Arizona's heart already and he smiled at that and said, "I'm lucky to be your wolf brother."
"And I'm happy to be your tiger brother." Max said.
Both of them gave each other a fist bump and hugged each other and Arizona lets out one tear and whispered, "I love you, Max."
"I love you too." Max said.
Most of the Hazards saw this and they let out a collective, "Aw..."
Max and Arizona turned around and saw them standing there and said, "Hello."
"That's so sweet." Faith said.
"Got me choked up." Kiba said, in verge of crying.
Takami went over to Max and he said, "We were gonna head to the training hall for a sec. Wanna come?"
"Can Arizona go too?" asked Max, looking at his wolf brother.
"Yeah, of course."
Arizona stood up for a second and he went along with the others and he turned to Max and said, "You didn't have to do that."
Max smiled at him and he told him, "I did because I don't want to make you feel left out."
Arizona couldn't argue with that and he smiled at his little tiger brother and said, "Still brothers."
"Forever."
They were unaware that Tigress was watching with a smile and she whispered, "He'll always have you in your heart."
Dramatic and heartwarming, huh? Hazards, please weigh in. Stick around for more!
