As the party gets planned, Max takes to the skies with Blaze!
Chapter 11: Flying Around
On the skies, Blaze flew at top speed with Max right beside him and Max has worn some safety pads on his hands, elbows, legs and a mask to keep from every parts of his body from any massive trauma or injury that he might sustain should a very serious situation should occur unexpectedly, but Blaze always knows that he'll keep Max safe from any harm. Max lets out a huge whoop through the air and Blaze knows that it's a sign that Max is having the time of his life and he asked, "Feels good, doesn't it?"
"Yeah, you're telling me! I wish I could fly like you, Blaze." Max exclaimed.
"Well, you gotta have wings like I have. No one taught me how to fly, so I just taught myself how to." Blaze replied.
Max widened his eyes after that revelation Blaze made about him teaching himself to fly and it just lets him know that his dragon friend has to rely on himself to be independent and for some reason, it struck a chord with Max because he had to learn how to fend for himself when he was younger while he was in the crossfire of his birth parents' voliatle relationship that ended in violence every night and he said, "Wow...that must've been hard for you."
"Learning how to fly by yourself is much harder than when someone teaches you how to. And I wasn't exactly as patient at the time." Blaze admitted.
"You're still not patient now." Max added.
Blaze scoffs at that comment and he said, "Moving on...want to go higher?"
"Bring it on, Blaze!" Max exclaimed.
"All right, hang on tight!" Blaze exclaimed, as he went up higher and higher and higher into the air and as they went higher, they flew above the clouds. Max became deeply amazed by being surrounded by clouds and he reached up to the closest ones and felt the soft clouds blowing through them and he definitely feels at peace and blissful as he touches the clouds.
Blaze looks at Max for a second and just smiled at him for a while as he shared the same feeling he had when he flew through the clouds in the sky when he first flew the air and Blaze said, "Pretty cool, huh?"
"I'll say." Max agreed.
Just then, Max sees the sky shift from blue to a lighter orange and brown shade like the sun is starting to set and he and Blaze got a chance to witness the grand beauty of nature right in front of them and Max felt the sun beaming inside of him and just soaked it up with his arms wide open.
"That was the same thing I felt when I first saw the sun. It's just so beautiful...and awesome." Blaze said, amazed.
Blaze gently turns around and flew on his side while Max looks down on the ground and when he first saw it, he couldn't believe the angle he just witnessed from upside down and he was deeply amazed by all of this and Blaze looks at Max and asked, "How's the view?"
Max gave Blaze a thumbs up as a response and Blaze then turns his entire body back around and he dove head down out of the clouds and into the skies and flew all the way down to the ground as Blaze started spinning his body around as Max enjoys the ride. While there, Max sees the Jade Palace from a clear distance and Max had an idea of surprising most of the masters as he got in Blaze's ear and whispers an idea.
Once Blaze hears the idea, he was definitely down for it as he lowers himself down to the Jade Palace and from a clear spot, Blaze spots most of the Five standing there and hides out on the roof without anyone noticing and Max had sort of an idea to slide down and take everyone by surprise as he lands on his feet. With that Max, takes off his safety gear and just slid down on Blaze's back and jumps out of his tail and leaps up the air in a tiger stance position and for the landing, he did a corkscrew rotating position as Blaze looks up and watches from above and he roars in delight.
As soon as the masters heard the roar, Monkey blinks a few times and asked Tigress, "Was that you roaring?"
"No, it's not me." Tigress replied.
"Then...who else could it be?" asked Viper.
Po looks up at the sky and sees an unbelievable twisting force heading towards the palace steps and he was shocked to learn that it was a black and white striped individual coming at them and soon enough...
BOOOOM!
The impact shook most of the ground and all of them were stunned to learn that the person was Max standing in and he just exclaimed, "NAILED IT!"
"YEAH, MAXIM! That's my tiger boy! Go, Maxie! Go, Maxie! It's your birthday! It's your birthday!" Blaze exclaimed, doing a victory dance.
Max did a little victory dance too and Blaze's tail stuck out as Max gives his dragon friend a high tail snap and both of them were laughing at the same time and Blaze took a peek at them and said, "Sup?"
"Can I ask what was that move?" asked Monkey.
"My version of a tiger stance...but done in the air with a little help from Blaze." Max replied.
Most of them were shocked and clueless as to why Max came up with that move and Tigress was the most shocked and furious of everyone, but tried to keep it at a minimum and asked, "What idiot taught you that basic tiger stance?"
Max and Blaze looked at each other and then they looked at Tigress and they both replied, in unison, "You did."
Tigress stood there, really stunned and kinda speechless at that point that she taught him a tiger stance, but took a very Maximus original twist in it and Po was the only one that responds, "Max, that was...awesome! Can you show me how to do that?"
"Nah. Not sure if you can try it. Wouldn't want to break that Dragon Warrior butt of yours." Blaze replied.
"My Dragon Warrior butt can handle anything." Po said, with a smirk.
"Except not eating." Monkey muttered.
"So...what were you guys doing just now? Like, before we came over?" asked Max.
The masters could tell that Max wanted to know some details about his 12th birthday, but they knew that they're gonna keep it under wraps and they all responded, "Nothing..."
Max is always gonna live life to the fullest as he will always do! Stay tuned for more!