the 12th birthday party ain't over yet! As it moves from the Bushido-Akio house to the Jade Palace!

Chapter 28: Party at the Palace

After the birthday dinner, the gang invited Max and several of his best friends on the way to the Jade Palace because the Jade Palace masters and students have something planned for Max's birthday and with Saori in tow, nobody knew what to expect from this party and Max felt like he's got enough surprises already that what could be more surprising than seeing his friends attend the party and that big butterscotch birthday cake for him and asked, "What other surprises are you trying to give me?"

"Aw, quit asking. Just follow us, birthday cub." Monkey responded, walking to the steps of the palace.

The rest of the crew were really curious as well as they walked over towards the Jade Palace front steps and from the minute, they opened the doors, everyone...including Max was stunned by the decorations and the arrangement that has been set up by some of the masters with everything white striped and celebrating Max's 12th birthday, Jade Palace style.

"What?" asked Max.

"How did they even...?" asked Saori, a little surprised too.

All of Max's friends were just awestruck by everyhing that has occured about the atmosphere there where everyone is celebrating Max's 12th birthday and all of the Elemental Hazards put together this amazing party that Max can party with his friends with and as they came out, streams of confetti pop out of the air and everyone shouted 'Happy birthday' to him and Max tried to comprehend what's going on, but he's just too surprised that he couldn't even grasp it yet.

"How surprised were you?" asked Kiba.

"Like...super surprised! I'm so speechless right now!" Max exclaimed.

Ryo chuckled at this and he said, "Well...we knew that you wanted a simple birthday, but we all thought it just needed a little more than that. So all of us worked the whole seven weeks to put it all together."

Before long, in comes Kovu, Kalia and Borko coming out with a dragon white-striped tiger hybrid thing to do some celebration as music starts playing. Everyone is just getting into it and all of Max's friends were really amazed and awestruck by what they just saw and witnessed and before long, Kiba did some dancing alongside Tamaki and Chronos to a traditional japanese celebration dance to celebrate someone's birthday.

Max bobbed his head to the beat of the drums and just couldn't help but get into it and Saori could tell that Max was feeling it and she got up and danced with him as he playfully twirled around her and just did some good dancing together with a mixture of martial arts and kung fu that blew everyone away and after that dance, most of the kung-fu masters were looking at the two of them dancing together and everyone's cheering for all of them.

Kiba was deeply surprised by Max's fancy footwork and he said, "He's got great moves for dancing too!"

"He dances a lot better than you do, Kiba." Chronos said, smirking.

"All right, guys! Who's up for some fireworks?!" asked Po.

Everyone is cheering for fireworks as they went out of the Hall of Heroes and into the grand stadium at the back of the palace as Takami makes the fireworks come alive as he lits up several fuses and every color of fireworks surround the night sky around the Jade Palace and all of the kids were just amazed by this amazing sight to see.

For Max, he never expected his 12th birthday to be every bit as awesome as it could be and having Saori by his side made it all the more meaning to him as he held her hand and watched the fireworks together and both tigers were looking at each other and just soaked every single moment together in as they kept watching the fireworks.

Final chapter coming in!