Chapter 1: Maps
RACO'S CORNER: I'm back friends, just so you know this isn't a sequel to my other stories(Stroll Down Danger Alley) even though some OC's might return.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Sly Cooper rights. Sucker Punch holds the key to their souls. MUHWAHAHAHAH!
Sly Cooper slid out of the air vent and landed silently on the ground. He looked around the room he was in. Just ahead of him was a glass case with lights surrounding it. There were a few lasers, but Sly quickly dogded them as he moved towards the prize. Inside of the case was a jade vase with rubies and diamonds emedded into the side. He carefully cut a hole into the top of the case with his cane. He dipped the cane into the center of the vase and slowly pulled the vase out. He gingerly picked up the cylinder-sized vase."Now I'm just counting on Murray to show up." Sly thought.
"Hey Sly! I'm here!" Murray yelled,seemingly reading his thoughts, from behind causing Sly to flinch.
"Jeez Murray. You almost gave me a heart attack ." Sly hadn't expected him to arrive so early.
"It's okay Sly." Murray reasurred. "I'm good at scaring people. It's my job."
"Right..."Sly looked at his hippo companion with a puzzled expression on his face." Hold on to this big guy.I'm wanna explore this place some more." Sly carefully handed Murray the vase. Murray stared at the vase in awe."It's so shiny..." he thought. Sly tip toed over to the doorway and looked back at Murray.
"Make sure you don't drop it." he called over to his friend.
"Check!" Murray yelled in response as Sly left the exhibit. He froze as he saw what was ahead of him: Carmelita and about 12 other officers surrounding him.
"Oh, hello Carmelita. Fancy meeting you here." Sly said in his usual playful manner.
"Enough of the tired old lines, ringtail. Give me the vase and I'll make your life sentence in prison only 10 years shorter." Carmelita threatened.
"How long will it be if I don't give you the vase? " Sly wondered to himself.
"I don't have a clue what you're talking about." Sly replied. " No vase here, just us thieves. Of course I haven't stolen anything...yet."
"I've had about enough of your cheesey action movie lines, Cooper. Hand over the vase NOW."
"Sorry Carmelita," Sly blurted."But...I have better things to steal." Sly made a mad dash back to the exhibit Murray was in."Hopefully Murray knows another way out." Not suprisingly Carmelita and the other officers weren't far behind Sly. Murray was where Sly had expected, standing in the middle of the exhibit still staring at the vase."Murray!" Sly cried. "We gotta get outta here!"
"Huh?"
"Run!"
"Huh?"
"RUN!"
Murray shrugged. "Okay!" He dropped the vase and jogged out of the room. Sly dove forward to the falling vase. But he was a split-second too late. The vase smashed and the shards flew at his face. He ducked down to avoid them, but he looked up to see Murray running away through a nearby door leading out of the museum."Why didn't I see that there in the first place?" Sly thought to himself. He looked at the remains of the vase. Then something caught his eye in the remains. It was a an old, weathered piece of paper. He could see the outlines of a map. He grabbed the paper and ran off just before the police squad could catch up with them. Sly caught up with Bentley and Murray who were waiting for him in the team van, which sped off into the city after Sly got in.
"You know, you can't run forever Sly."
"Keep talking Bentley. Keep talking"
"Sorry I broke that vase Sly." Murray apologized as the Cooper Gang walked into their hideout, which was their usual abandoned looking one-storied building with a satellite on top.
"The vase doesn't matter anymore." Sly responded. "After it broke I found this," Sly showed his friends the map he found.
"It's shiny." Murray said, once again in awe.
"Uh, Murray, how can it be shiny? It's just a piece of paper." Sly pointed out.
"It appears to be a map of some kind." Bentley thought out loud. "Let me take a look at it." Sly handed Bentley the piece of paper.
"Th-this map, this map leads to a treasure,big treasure, but we have to find four crystals first." Bentley read.
"Treasure?" Murray shrieked.
"Crystals?" Sly chimed in.
"Big treasure!" Murray added.
"Yes, we have to get going now if we want to find it." Bentley stated.
"Why?" Sly questioned.
"Because we don't want someone else to get to it first." Bentley said.
"Like me." Murray said proudly.
"Uh, yeah. Like you." Sly said.
"Enough arguing you guys!" Bentley snapped."Okay here's what the map says..." Bentley squinted to read the small text on the map." it says that one is in Mexico, one is in Iowa, in the States, and the other two are in places we've been already; Nunavut Bay and The Isle O' Wrath."
"I wanna go to Mexico!" Murray yelled.
"I say we go to Iowa, I hear it's not boring at all." Bentley suggested.
"You guys are crazy, Isle O' Wrath is the best place to start a mission like this." Sly said.
"Why's that Sly?" Bentley asked, curiously.
"I like the weather."
"Me too." Murray added."But the point is...MEXICO! I WANNA GO TO MEXICO!"
"There's only one way to settle this," Bentley informed his friends."It's the way leaders of the world have ended their disputes for years, Rock,Paper, Scissors." The three placed their hands in the center.
"ROCK! PAPER! SCISSORS!"
"Ha! Rock beats scissors and..what're you doing Murray?"
Murray held his thumbs up. "Thumbs up beats all, guys!"
"Murray you forfeit and I guess that means Sly wins." Bentley explained to his friends.
"Yes!" Sly exclaimed." Rock always beats scissors! ALWAYS!"
"Well, I guess it's off to the Isle O' Wrath." And with that, the Cooper Gang went off to the Team Van, and headed to the airport.
Will The Cooper gang make it to the Isle O' Wrath in one piece? Or will their flight get gasp DELAYED! Stick around for CHAPTER 2!
