Chapter 21: Special Day for Max

After Max was meditating, he walked downstairs and went straight to the kitchen and stopped to see a full smorgasboard of breakfast food right in front of him; including rice with milk, giant stacks of tiger pancakes, fruits and dumplings and Max's eyes were widened up by the epic sight of a birthday breakfast standing right of him and he said, "Amazeballs..."

"Morning, birthday boy!"

Max turns around to see Samurai and Po coming in the room and he was just happy and awestruck at the same time and never expected both pandas to cook breakfast for him and he said, "Did you guys do all of this?"

"Yeah, we did. I invited Po to come over early to help fix breakfast for your birthday while you were asleep." Samurai answered.

Po nodded in agreement and he said, "And I did not eat every single morsel of it."

Samurai folded his arms and glared at him with disbelief because he knew Po all too well that whenever there is some food laying around, he's the first one to get it before everyone else can and Po saw the look on Samurai's face and he said, "I didn't! This time!"

"Mm-hmm." Samurai said, unconvinced.

Max hugged the both of them in a deep gratitude and said, "I love you guys! Thank you for doing this for me!"

Samurai and Po hugged him back as well and they knew they were doing a good thing for Max on his special day and Po said, "You're welcome."

"Man...I can't believe that you're 12 now. You're growing up, buddy...but you still got a lot of growing to do...height-wise." Samurai said, before letting out a laugh.

Max lets out an amused laugh at that comment and said, "I'll let that slide because it's my birthday."

"Well...what are we waiting for?! Are we gonna look at the food or eat it?!" Po said, just excited for the food.

All three of them sat down to get some breakfast and Samurai looked at Po and said, "This time, don't eat it all at once."

Samurai allowed Max to get some food first and he got a slice of tiger pancakes, some berries, rice with milk and dumplings on his plate while both Samurai and Po had a little bit of everything on their plates and Po was the first one to eat everything on his plate quickly and Max asked, "Is anyone else coming for breakfast?"

"Actually, they had left a little early to visit the Jade Palace. But Akashi said that you can hang out with Saori today." Samurai replied.

Just hearing that Saori wants to hang with him today makes Max's heart fluttered more and he said, "Wow...on my birthday? This is gonna be the best day ever."

"Wait until you see what we got planned for you today." Po said, with his mouth full.

Samurai quickly stuffed Po's mouth with tiger pancakes as a reaction to prevent him spilling the beans of Max's surprises for his birthday and Max looked at Po in an unexpected fashion and asked, "Like what?"

"Nothing! Po said nothing! He just said how awesome these tiger pancakes are!" Samurai said, smiling.

Max nods his head at this and he kept eating his breakfast and enjoyed every single morsel of it and after he was finished, he hugged Samurai's side and said, "Thanks, big bro."

"Anytime, little buddy. Saori told me to tell you to meet her at Mr. Ping's Noodle Shop in an hour, so go get ready, okay?" asked Samurai.

"No problem!" Max said, as he quickly went up the stairs.

After that, Samurai glared at Po and whispered, "You almost blew the surprise!"

"Sorry! I blab when I eat." Po responded.

Samurai sighed heavily and then tried to dial down the pressure factor and he said, "Let's just focus on getting everything set up today. When Max leaves, this whole house will turn to a party."

"Gotcha." Po replied, still eating his tiger pancake.