And Max shows up to his 12th birthday and gets the surprise of a lifetime!

Chapter 25: Arrival of the Birthday Tiger

Back at the Bushido-Akio house, Max's closest friends have arrived to the party including his MMA trainer, Jason and as they piled in the house, most of them were excited to see Max and surprise him on his birthday while some of them kept watch in case he comes by outside. The family plus the Jade Palace masters and students are putting the finishing touches on the ambience for Max's birthday dinner by setting the plates and food all over and once it's all in those little perfect frames, it looks like it's all set up.

Mako smiles at everything that has been done in just one day and all it needs is the birthday cub and they are all set to go as some of the siblings look at all the stuff that has been accomplished and they know they are doing this for their tiger brother. Samurai smiled at this and he said, "This is gonna be an awesome birthday."

"Max is gonna be so surprised!" Tsunami exclaimed.

"I don't know about you guys, but I am ready for the food!" Po said, looking at all the food laid out.

Ryo felt the same way as the overwhelming amount of food all over made his appetite go crazy, but he knows that it's all for Max and everyone else there. The temptation of eating most of the food is starting to kick in, but Skyler wanted to kick that temptation by kicking Ryo in the butt hard to snap out of it. Once Ryo felt the sharp force of Skyler's foot on his butt, that woke him up, but still got a little antsy about it.

"Really, Sky? Of all the places you would kick me, you chose my butt?" asked Ryo, rubbing his butt.

"I've known you for a long time and with your appetite. Yours is way more bigger than Po...and that's saying a lot." Skyler said, with a smirk.

Ryo chuckled sarcastically at this and muttered, "My girlfriend's a comedian."

Meanwhile, most of the kids were keeping a watch on Max to see if he's coming and they're just talking about how surprised he'll be when they see him and not long afterwards, they hear a distant dragon roar from the sky and as they looked up, one of them recognized Blaze and exclaimed, "Max is coming!"

They could tell from Max's white stripes from a distance and once they saw it was Max, they immediately dispersed over to the house and exclaimed, "Max is coming!"

That gave them the alert that they're gonna surprise them and everyone has to find a hiding spot around the house and the entire Bushido-Akio clan, Jade Palace masters and students as well as Max's friends hid in different places until it was time for Max to come in. Less than a few minutes go by, they're all silent and everything was dark as soon as the door opens.

Max, Saori and Blaze entered the house and Max became a little curious as to why everything's so dark and Saori said, "Is anyone here?"

"I'm sure they're around here somewhere. You know, I can see anything in the dark, so it may not be that hard." Max replied.

"You're nocturnal, aren't ya?" asked Blaze.

"I guess you could say that. Wonder where everyone is." Max said, walking by.

Little did Max know...

The lights came on all of a sudden and everyone popped out of nowhere and shouted, "SURPRISE!"

Stay tuned for the party!