Hey everybody, Storyus Raccoonus here with my next story which is pretty much just Sly's life at the orphanage with Bentley and Murray before he became the cunning master theief he is today.
It was a special night for the Couple Conner and Kathryn Cooper becuase today was the eighth birthday of their son Sly meaning on that night he would inherit his families ancient book, the thievius raccoonus, a book that has been passed down the cooper family for generations and instructions written by his ancestors themselves on how to become a master thief.
Sly was currently with his dad in his parent's room barely able to contain his excitement as his dad removed one of the family portraits from the wall revealing a safe. When Conner opened the door revealing the thievius raccoonus. As his dad took the book out of the safe he said "Sly, as you know your next in line to continue our familie's thieving legacy, well this book is gonna teach you everything you need to know in order to do just that, promise you'll make me proud son."
"I promise dad, I'm gonna be the best master theif I can be." Sly said with a large amount of determination in his voice that Conner simply chuckled at. When Sly was about to take the book out of his dad's hands however Kthryn suddenly ran in panting whilst a banging at the front door could be heard. Conner's eyes widened in concern and Sly's in confusion until Kathryn said, "Conner *pant* they're at the front door!" "Kathryn calm down! Who's at the front door?" Conner asked while gripping Kathryn by the shoulders trying to get her to calm herself. What she said made his blood run cold, "The fiendish five." In an instant Conner ran to Sly and told him to get in the closet all while sly was starting to get a worried look on his face, "Dad whats going on?" Sly asked as his dad quickly placed the thievius raccoonus back in the safe and quicky grabbed his cane, a brown staff with a gold part that resembled a letter C, and placed it in the closet with Sly.
Conner didn't reply at first but just kissed him on the forehead and said " Your mum and I love you son, don't you ever forget that." That was the last thing Conner said before he closed the door and the next thing Sly heard was the front door crashing down and what sounded like five people running up the stairs whilst Conner stood prepared to protect his family even if it meant risking his own life.
"Clockwerk! What do you want!?" Conner yelled with anger at the for bursting into his home. The next voice Sly heard chilled him to his very core simply by how robotic it sounded, "I want that book Cooper!" The voice yelled as the five intruders lunged at his parents. The closet door was lef ajar so Sly ended up seeing the whole horrifying thing, the person that seemed to be a bull dog with way too much muscle grabbed Kathryn and slamed her into the wall and the sound of her skull cracking could be heard and she was dead instantly.
"Kathryn!" Conner screamed as he tried to run to his wifes side before he was stopped by the strange owl, "Where is the book Cooper?" he asked with a look of pure evil spread across his face and Conner replied with "I'd rather die than let you get your hands on it!" the owl simply chuckled and said "That can be arranged Cooper, Muggshot you know what to do."
With that said the bull dog started throwing punches at Conner left and right and he wasn't fast enough to dodge them and right when he drew back for what would surely be the final blow the owl stepped in front of him "Stop Muggshot, I want to have the pleasure of ending this pathetic fools life." The owl said as he turned around and grabbed Conner with his talons and started slowy tightening his grip, casuing a sound that was surely the sound of Conners ribs cracking causing Sly to look away in fear. When that was done the owl known as Clockwerk dropped Conner to the floor as he was wheezing with every breath he took.
When Clockwerk was sure Conner wouldnt be getting back up he ordered the other three members of his group, a frog, an alligator wearing some strange looking voodoo clothes and a panda wearing a strange red pair of pants with fire on them to look where ever the book could be. The next thing Sly heard from inside the closet was the sound of things being knocked over and stuff being pulled off the wall as they tried to find the sacred book. Sly then heard the safe opening and heard a voice with a British accent say "I found the book!" when Sly tried to get a better look through the small crack in the door and saw to his horror that the frog was holding the thievius raccoonus. When Sly thought it couldn't get any worse the five strangers opened the book and started ripping the pages out causing Sly to winch every time he heard it.
When Sly thought they were about to leave the door suddenly flung open and he was face to face with the voodoo alligator and he had a knife held to his throat, "Lets kill this child now and get it over with!" And right when she was about to do the deed the owl stopped her as well saying "No Mz Ruby, let the child live, without his families precious book he will never be able to come after us." The alligator simply grumbled and dropped Sly to the floor as they all left with pieces of what rightfully belonged to his family leaving just the empty binding.
"Dad!" Sly yelled as he ran up to his dad slumped against the wall. "Sly, Im not going to make it, i want you to promise me something, promise you'll get the theivius raccoonus back someday." Conner told his son with a great amount of difficulty and Sly replied with teary eyes when he heard his father say this , "I promise dad." With his last dying breath Conner said "I love you Sly." Then like his wife Conner was gone, leaving Sly completely alone.
Sly was so upset he just hugged his dads body and didn't hear the sound of the police sirens outside the house.
So yeah thats the end of chapter 1. please let me know what you think in the reviews and i try and get another chapter up soon if you weant me to and possibly let me know if this sounds a bit dark and I'll try to tone it down a bit . for now though, Storyus Raccoonus out.