This chapter focuses on Max's last day of being 11 years old and this is how he spent it.

Chapter 19: Last Day of 11

A few days have gone by and it is only one more day until Max hits 12 and what better way to spend his last day of being 11 than hanging out with his family at the house and as he comes downstairs, he sees Samurai, Tsunami, Phoenix, Zoey, Luna, Dakota, Duke, Bakari, Isaiah and Shinoda hanging in the living room and when they saw Max, Samurai said, "Hey, dude! Wanna hang out with us?"

Max blinked his eyes in response and is surprised that his brothers asked him to hang with them and he said, "Sure!"

He joins in with the rest of them and Samurai said, "It's the day before your birthday, dude! Why not just have some fun with all of us?"

And Max could tell that he wanted this for a long time...a chance to hang out with his sibs and they don't really do that much hanging out at all and for him, it was just a good way to bond even more and especially before he turns 12. Max then asked, "So...what do we do first?"

"Actually, what do you want to do?" asked Phoenix.

"Yeah, whatever you like to do, we want to join in." Samurai responded.

And that was quite a surprise for Max and he just thought about the many things he loves to do before celebrating his birthday and he's got quite a long ideas in his head on how he wants to spend it.

Not long afterwards, Max played hide and seek with the younger ones plus the older sibs and Max became the seeker while everyone else hides and it's up to Max to find them all and if there's one thing he learned from Kaizer, it's to be cunning and how to find their hidden prey...but to use it for playful advantages. Not long afterwards, Max found few of his younger siblings and then it was time for the older siblings to be found.

Max snuck around most hiding places, but it wasn't actually hard to find them because being that they're pandas, certain parts of them stick out like their legs, arms, butt, faces or belly would be half exposed and it makes the game so much easier for Max because he can smell their stench from further away. Most of the panda siblings were completely shocked that Max found them quickly and didn't expect him to be found so quickly.

"Man, he's really good." Samurai said.

"It's a tiger's intuition." Phoenix pointed out.

Next up, Max decided to take them all on a dragon ride with Blaze just to get a feeling of what it's like to ride with him and so far, most of them were amazed by how fast Blaze could fly in the air as they got in one-by-one with each sibling coming in for a few flights abvove the air and the rest of them who were watching could either cheer them on or tease them by going faster.

With each turn they had, there were mixed emotions ranging from excited and amazed to scary and wanting to throw up afterwards, but it was all in the fun for spending time with Max.

And Max taught some of his sibs a few things about MMA and there were wrestling involved with a touch of martial arts and kung-fu, but Max knows how to use his version of white tiger style to his advantage and he marries in traditonal kung-fu and wrestling and after his sibs witnessed a few demos, Max brought Samurai in first for demonstration, of which Samurai gets nervous about it and once Max showed him a few things, Samurai thought that it was time to use what he got and in many ways, he would fall down on his gut and butt.

Samurai tried his best to get this and in each occasion, he keeps slipping and falling and he couldn't keep up with Max because he's so fast and Phoenix stepped in and tried to go after Max and believe it or not, Phoenix became pretty good at MMA for some reason and used it to spar Max. That surprised Samurai the most and he doesn't want to be upstaged by both brothers and he tried again and this time, he executed it so correctly with just one swirling roundkick mixed with a thrashing movement towards Phoenix.

"Yeah! I got it in me!" Samurai cheered.

Most of them were cheering for Samurai because he finally got it right and Max gave him a fist-bump for doing so and Samurai actually felt proud of himself for finally getting this down pat.

After the sparring, they looked up at the clouds and tried to guess which cloud looks like what and Max got most of the clouds guessing game right by identifying a panda, heart, horse and a dumpling. Some of the other siblings were just laighing and goofing around each other and they all kept guessing which cloud looks like what until sunset comes in and they knew that after sunset, it'll be Max's final hours before reaching 12 years old.

"This has been such a fun day, you guys." Max said, happily.

"We know, man. The fun's only just beginning though because tomorrow...it's your birthday." Samurai added.

"I can hardly believe it! Just a few years ago, I was a very scared, shy seven year old cub and now I've gotten a lot older." Max replied.

"Yeah, you've come a long way. I never really expected this moment to come...and so fast. Part of me misses you being a little kid because I just feel like I haven't obligated my duties as a big brother the way I should." Arizona added.

Max did not expect Arizona to say that and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well...you look at little siblings and that's the one part that you remember about them the most and that you wish they could stay little, but then when they grow up, you realzie that time is going too fast and that was something that I wasn't sure if I'm ready for yet. But at the same time...I look at what he's gonna be in the future and I know that you will grow up to be an amazing person like you are right now." Arizona added.

Max was touched to hear that come from Arizona and he said, "Thanks. And don't worry...not matter how old I get, you can always think of me as your little tiger brother."

"Thanks, buddy." Arizona said, coming over to give him a hug and a noogie.

Max exclaimed the minute he got noogied by Arizona and he just kept laughing through it all and Samurai exclaimed, "NOOGIE FIGHT!"

Soon enough, everyone piled onto themselves, giving each other some noogies and they were all laughing in the midst of the noogie first and it's like the best family day they could ever have and come tomorrow, all of that will come together on Max's 12 birthday and that was a great way for Max to celebrate the last day of being 11.

Next chapter...Max turns 12!