And here's where Max finds his discovery with a dragon...and an unexpected friendship emerges.

Chapter 5: Encounter with a Dragon

Max was still walking around that cave to look for a hiding spot in case Logan plans to find him there and he knows that he might win the game of hide and seek while Logan is still searching for him and he looked in several parts of the cave, but most of them were either too short, too big, too smart or too obvious to find places to hide and soon enough, he stumbled across a very deep hiding place near the boulders and he widened his eyes at the size of it.

"This is perfect." Max whispered, as he walked towards that hiding spot.

Once he got in, he lets out a few chuckles and said, "Logan will never find me here."

Not less that 20 seconds later, Max heard some heavy breathing coming from that cave and he might've already thought that it was Logan coming in to find him so quickly and just kept his mouth shut for a second until he heard that same heavy breathing/growling sound again and in that moment, he could tell that it might be Logan.

Max lets out a deep exasperated sigh and muttered, "How did Logan find me so quickly?"

The growling sounds got a little bigger and more heavier by the second and he just got annoyed by it that he heard the sounds of footprints and someone running quickly, but Max turned around to keep himself in check in case someone tries to pull a prank on him or something and he puts his dukes up and panted heavily.

"Hello? Who's there?" Max asked.

Then, a loud screech erupted the cave and that drove Max to his inner-most fears that it might've been a monster or something like that and he would want to run and find another hiding spot if he wanted to, but he just wanted to find what that is and where it came from, so he slowly walked over towards the cave to search for this unknown person and once he stopped, he started shaking and breathing heavily a little bit and after a few seconds...

He leapt out of nowhere and somehow comes face to face with someone with blue and green eyes blinking at him and it looked angrier than Master Tigress getting her butt clawed by Max by accident and Max slowly came closer towards it and said, "Whoever you are...I'm not afraid of you."

"You should be."

That bewildered Max that it can talk as well, but he shook it off like it was nothing and said, "Well, I'm not."

"Just go away and leave me alone."

Max stood right where he's standing and he's not one to back down if someone doubts him or keeps him from going and he just stood in the same spot and the figure said, "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"I just want to know who you are. Friend or foe?" asked Max.

"Does it matter what I am?"

"It does to me." Max stated.

Before long, the figure growled at Max and from the look on its eyes, he looked very serious and said, "All right...you asked for it!"

Very quickly, the figure showed itself and revealed to be a silver and black dragon...who's somewhat 2 years older than Max coming to attack him, but received a painful roar that's so loud that it nearly shattered the rocks crumbling down and Max could tell that the dragon's full of pain right now.

"Ow! Why can't I just walk with this thing on me?!" the dragon growled.

Max froze for a second and wondered what's his problem and he got a little closer to him to find out what it is, but the dragon didn't want him anywhere near him and he asked, "What are you doing?"

"Easy. I'm here to help." Max replied.

"I don't need your help, all right?! I can take care of this myself!" the dragon snarled.

Max was observing to see what the problem is just in case and for a short time, he saw thorn on his foot and realized that that might be the reason for it and the dragon tried to get it off, but he just kept roaring in pain and it proved unsuccessful. The cub really had no choice but to help him and he went closer to the dragon's foot and saw that there is a thorn there.

"What are you doing? I said I didn't need your help!" the dragon exclaimed.

Max wasn't really listening and he just grabbed ahold of the dragon's paw to take the thorn out of his foot, but the dragon wasn't gonna have it.

"Did you not hear me?! I said I don't need your...OWWWWWW!" the dragon began, but screamed in total pain as soon as Max grabbed the thorn.

The second Max grabbed the thorn, he pulled it out of its foot and that caused the dragon to roar very angrily at him and the dragon said, "Are you crazy?! You are so gonna get burned for this!"

Seconds later, Max showed him the thorn that got pulled out and that stopped the dragon on his tracks and eventually calmed himself down a bit and couldn't believe he actually got it out for him and he took one look on his paw and sees that it's really gone. He looked at the thorn for a double check and Max is really holding it and flicked it out of there.

"You're welcome." Max replied.

Before long, Max came closer to him, pulled out some shaolin wraps and a little bit of spray to heal that paw and he sprayed it on the dragon's paw, making the dragon groan a little bit and Max quickly puts some shaolin wrap around the paw so it can heal faster.

The dragon was still puzzled as to how Max really helped him out, but was amazingly amazed regardless that he really did that and he said, "But...why?"

"Believe it or not...because it's the right thing to do. Even if you were gonna kill me, I was gonna help you out regardless. Wouldn't you want someone to help you?" Max asked.

The dragon pondered on that thought for a minute and then it hit him...he's never had someone to help him with anything before and it intrigued him that someone would help him out instead of running away and being afraid and before he could get a chance to respond, Max had already left and before long...that question started ringing through his head.

'Wouldn't you want someone to help you?'

With that, the dragon went back to his usual hiding spot and just laid back down on the floor and for the first time in his life...he was no longer invisible anymore.

"I found my very first friend." the dragon whispered.

And the friendship begins. Coming up...we'll get to know these two better.

Voice of the unnamed dragon: Ben Diskin

Voice of Max: (again, also) Ben Diskin