Castle of Cagliostro

Chapter 1

A/N: I am not very good at naming original characters, so I'll give them my pen name. Don't judge. But I hope this first chapter is good enough. Also, reviews are always welcome, feel free to write them. - Raven.

A/N: Decided to rewrite this story a little bit, added a few original changes. I was still new in writing stories last year. Hope you like it. - Raven (Dec 2018)

Lupin The Third, or more commonly, "wolf" as people call him nowadays. He is considered the world's greatest international thief, traveling around the entire world robbing like there's no tomorrow. But this time, the gentleman thief was about to face his greatest challenge yet. But before that, let's start from the beginning of this story.

On a quiet day in Monaco, a huge and well-known casino was still closed in the early morning. Armed guards can be seen patrolling around the casino. But in that building, all the way up to the highest floor was a long rope being tossed out of one of the windows. And what came out was none other than the wolf himself, followed by Jigen and a newcomer, Raven. The three thieves slowly made their way down the building carrying bags filled to the brim with money.

"This is just way too easy for us," said Raven, repelling down the ropes. Raven was Wolf's newest gunman, and he started working for them for only a few months. "Don't celebrate too soon, we haven't even escaped yet," Wolf replied with cheeky smiles. Jigen was also Wolf's gunman, but they knew each other long before Raven came in. But as soon as they made it to the ground, the alarms suddenly went off and the whole casino came to life and realized that someone was robbing them! The trio started to haul ass out of there. "Time to go, Boss!" Jigen yelled.

Luckily they made it just in time for the car before the casino guards could catch them. "There they are, get'em !" "They are getting away!" "Come on, we're moving it, get in the car!" The guards panicked as they got into their cars to chase after them, but only to realize that the cars had already been tampered with. "Hey what gives!?" "Dammit, they mess up the cars!" By the time they could even get moving, the trio had already escaped, gone and out of sight.

With the heist a success, the trio was riding on the highway with tons of money overflowing inside the car. "I've never seen so much money in my life. We're millionaires!" Jigen says as he started tossing the money around inside the car, "Hey, watch it I can't see to drive." Wolf Laughs. "We're not just living on easy street. Hell, we can buy it!" Jigen continues. "Jigen, you're not thinking of taking most of this for yourself are you?" Raven Jokes. "Maybe." The trio shares a laugh until Wolf starts to realize that something is wrong.

"Huh, I should have known it was too good to be true," Wolf said sadly."Something the matter boss?" Jigen asks, "Let's just dump it." Said wolf, shocking his two gunmen, "Huh!?" Said Jiegn and Raven. Wolf looks at them and softly smiles, "You heard me guys dump it, the money's counterfeit." Jigen and Raven both looked at each other and started inspecting the money again, but more closely and to their surprise, they are counterfeit!

"You mean we...impossible, that casino was owned and operated by the government," Jigen said. "It's good work," Wolf said. "I'd say if it's good enough to fool the government." Jigen counters, "But how come we didn't notice it when we grabbed it?" Raven asked."It's the greatest job of counterfeiting I've ever seen, and we're gonna find out who's making this stuff. And then we will move in and take over."

Wolf said laughs at the end. Raven sat there thinking and said, "Hey yeah, come on Jigen don't you get it!" As he opens the car roof and tosses the counterfeit money out. "See, Raven gets the idea!" Wolf said."Well, all I can say is I hope you know what you're doing boss!" Jigen said, finally agreeing and joins in on dumping the money. "At last, I found a challenge worthy of my talent!" Wolf screams out loud in excitement.

As the money flies into the air the trio starts gathering their supplies and heading off to the place where the counterfeits came from. They travel across Europe until they reach the border upon their destination with disguises. A guard in European armor guarding the wall walks up and inspects the trio. "Hola," Wolf said in a Spanish accent and gave him their fake passports. Jigen tips his fedora while Raven just simply waves.

The guard smiles back and hands back their passports. "Gracias," Wolf said as they drove off, "So this is Cagliostro, I never knew this place existed when we started working on this case. I couldn't even find this country on the roadmap." Jigen said. "It's the world's smallest nation, and the total population is only thirty-five hundred," Raven replied. "Oh, you've been studying now, the true mark of a Lupin thief, you're getting better every day." Wolf compliments. "Actually I've been here before, but that's a story for another time," Raven said.

"But what makes you think this is where the counterfeit money came from?" Jigen questions. "First, I figured out where it couldn't have come from. Purely the process of elimination." Wolf replies. "So. Where do we even go from here?" Jigen asks, "Well, we haven't figured that out yet." Raven replies. "Don't worry guys. My intuitions never fail." Said Wolf. "Never?" said Jigen.

Jigen then slumps back in his chair and says, "Well, wake me up when we get there, will ya? If we get there." And right after he said that they hit a flat tire and the trio had to stop on the side of the road. Wolf gets out and inspects the tire, "Jigen?" "I know I know, okay. You ready?" Jigen replies as Raven sighs and steps out of the car. "You two are way too childish." Raven shakes his head slowly, as he watches the two-man child battle it out with rock, paper, and scissors.

As they count to three, Wolf draws scissors while Jigen draws paper, leaving Jigen alone to replace the tire himself. "Welp, it looks like we'll be here for a while. " Raven said as he leaned against the car. Wolf sits on top of the Fiat 500 and smokes in victory under the sun. "Man, what a beautiful day," Wolf said, Jigen and Raven look at each other and roll their eyes. "Uh-huh." They both replied.

Not long later, a car could be heard coming up the road. A pink car came in and drove really fast. Passing the trio, Wolf managed to get a look at the driver and saw a red-haired girl in a white wedding gown. "What was that about?" Wolf questions. But then another car came by, a group of four men nearly hitting the trio. "Hey, Watch it!" Jigen shouted.

But it looks like they were chasing after her. "What the hell?" Jigen said. "Get in," Wolf said as he climbed back into his seat. "This will be fun," Raven said he was already in the vehicle. Wolf starts the engine and accelerates almost leaving Jigen behind. (Que Lupin 80s theme music) Luckily, Raven grabs him in time. "Whoa, that's a close one. You okay Jigen?" Raven asked Jigen felt a strange force pulling him in as Raven pulled him in. "I'm an alright kid, thanks." He said as he climbed into the passenger seat next to Wolf.

The trio speeds up, reaching the other two cars on the highway. "We don't even know why they were chasing her! So who do we help?" Jigen asked. Wolf replied, "The Girl." Jigen smirks while Raven rolled his eyes, "Figures." Said Raven. The pursuers started to ram the girl towards the edge of the highway, and this infuriates the trio. "I can hit his tire from here." Jigen offers.

"Go ahead," Wolf said, and Jigen pulls out his Smith & Wesson Model 19 Revolver and takes aim, but before he could fire he saw the two cars driving away from each other as a bus was coming towards them, "Whoa," Wolf said as he steers them away, barely dogging the bus. They avoided it without any harm and wolf felt that the car was suddenly going faster than before like something was pushing it. Jigen finally had a clear shot and fired two rounds into the left tire. But the tire didn't deflate. "Hey, those are bulletproof tires!" said Jigen.

The four men took notice of the trio and decided to give them a welcoming gift. "Grenade!" Jigen exclaims. The Fiat 500 took a hit, but it was somehow still okay despite the blast. This confuses Jigen and Wolf. "That's it!" Raven said as he climbs out to the side and pulls out his C96 Mauser and shoots back, successfully killing one of them. His body flew out while holding a primed grenade and exploded behind them. But that didn't stop them from throwing more grenades. "Three left." Said Raven.

Another henchman came out with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun and started shooting at them. "Damn, we get around them somehow!" Jigen said, "Yeah, I got an idea. Here we go!" Wolf said as he drives the car up the cliff wall trying to get to higher grounds. Wolf felt that the car will not make it to the top but suddenly felt the car being pulled, but Wolf had little time to think about it as they made it to the top, raming through the trees and branches until they reached the other side of the cliff, finally ahead of the pursuers.

"We're gonna go back down. Get ready!" Said Wolf. " Alright, this armor-piercing bullet should do it," Jigen said, loading it into his revolver. But the henchmen had already found them and aimed his machine gun right at Jigen. "No, you don't," Raven said he shot him first, killing him just in time as they drove back down right in front of them. "That makes two. Your clear Jigen, take the shot!" Shouted Raven. Jigen aims and shoots the front tire, causing them to lose control and crash, finally stopping them from chasing the girl.

"Yeah," Jigen said in triumph. "Nice shot, Jigen," said Raven. (Lupin theme ends here) As the situation slowly dies down they slow down to meet up with her and see if she is okay. Wolf honks to get her attention, but she wasn't responding. Wolf drove closer to get a better view, but only to find out that something was wrong. "Oh no, she's passed out!" Wolf said. Henchmen must have knocked her out with that last impact. And to make it even worse, her feet were still on the throttle.

"What are we gonna do boss!?" Jigen asks. "I got her, you guys keep it steady!" Raven immediately insisted. "What? Whatever you say, kid." Said Wolf, he knows that Raven would never do something dangerous for a random girl until now, but then again this intrigues Wolf. They were right beside her and Raven steadies himself and jumps over to her and steers her car, Wolf found that their Fiat 500 was going a little slower than before making it impossible to keep up with Raven. But again Wolf pushes it aside and says, "Try and keep it steady!"

"There's a tractor ahead!" Jigen warns, but there wasn't enough time for Raven to turn the car, and they hit the tractor causing the engine to stop working. The Fiat 500 manages to stop before colliding with the tractor. "That was close," Jigen said. "Uh, guys! We still have a problem!" Raven said that as the car was already leaning against the open edge, the car was starting to tilt downward and there was no time to get out of the car. He grabbed the girl and jumped out of the car as they fell over the edge, throwing his grappling hook to the edge of the cliff only to be caught by a hanging branch.

Luckily, both Raven and the unconscious girl were safe thanks to Wolf's grappling belt, "Thanks, boss." He thoughts as he hangs there with the girl in his arms. Raven decided to check on the girl. She's still unconscious, but luckily no bruises. But he stopped as his eyes came to her face. He thought he recognized something familiar and instead decided to get a better look at her. Suddenly, her red hair finally hit him.

"It's you," he said. He stayed for a moment until he realized that they were still hanging from a cliff. "Oh right," he said. He lowered themselves down to the ground safely. Upon reaching the ground, he felt a sharp pain in his left leg, "Ow!" he said. Almost dropping the girl. He must have scraped along something during the jump. He lays her upright against a cliff wall near a lake. He sits down in front of her to take a break. He let out a sigh, "I'd never thought I'd see you again." He smiled softly.

Soon she regained consciousness and looked at the boy with her gorgeous blue eyes. She gasps, "Oh my." She said as she looked around frantically after what had just happened. She panicked, but Raven calmed her down, "Hey, it's okay. Your safe now." When she stopped and looked at him again, she placed her hand on her mouth in surprise and said, "Could it be?" she said as she reached out her hand to touch his face.

But she stopped as she noticed his injured leg. "Your hurt." She said, "It's all right, it's just a little scratch." said Raven. But the girl did something that he never expected her to do next. She ran to the lake and dipped her hands but quickly decided to use her glove instead to collect the water. She returns and begins to nurse his left leg. "Are you okay?" she said softly.

Her voice was as soft and gentle as he remembered. Raven nods, and she smiles at him, which hits him again, "It is you." He thought to himself as she continued to nurse him. As the two of them sat there peacefully, a search boat arrived and the girl panicked. "I'm so sorry, I can't stay here." She apologizes and leaves him with her glove in his hand. "Be careful," Raven said as she gave him one last smile and waves before running into the forest to get their attention. "There she is!" the boat captain said, turning the boat away from Raven.

With both the girl and the boat gone, Wolf and Jigen arrived shortly, repelling down to Raven. "Hey kid, you're okay? Did you fell halfway?" Jigen asked worriedly. "What, No. I'm fine, just my leg got hurt is all." Raven said. "Oh no, they got her," Wolf said he was looking at a boat leaving high-speed with the girl. Raven looks on and clenches his fist, "Dammit!"

"Well, we did our best," Jigen said. "Don't let it get over you, kid," Wolf reassures, but Raven found something else in the glove, it was a ring! And not just any ring, "What's up kid?" "What are you looking at?" Wolf and Jigen ask. "I've seen this emblem before," Raven said with a glare, staring at it. The two adults look at each.

Raven turns around to them, "Can we, go somewhere real quick?" He asked. Wolf was surprised at this point. Firstly, he insisted on doing something dangerous for a girl he barely knows or does he. And second, he just so happens to know where to go next? "Something's not right." Wolf thought.

"Alright Kid, where to?" Wolf asked.

End of chapter 1