Rat was awoken from his sleep when he was first summoned to go see the leader of the Thieves Order. His room was inside of the large chamber of the Thieves Orders secret hideout, it was large and roomy, and compared to some of the other rooms there, it was comfortable.
He made his way to the main chambers of their leader, his white hair was messy and he was tired, he wore his black plague mask over his face even though it was late and almost nobody was awake. He opened the door and let himself in, inside was one of the nicest rooms in the facility. On a chair behind a desk was the Thieves Order leader, Erin Skullstone. Her blonde hair was up and she looked serious.
"Sup Erin" Rat yawned out, she didn't look amused.
"Rat I have a really important job for you, one of our most risky" Erin grasped her hands in front of herself and sighed, "Please sit…" Rat pulled a chair over and sat at it, he was quiet knowing this was serious.
"Since you are one of our best men, and in the higher ranks the youngest, I have a job that can only be done by you. As you know Wizard City is one of the most troubling worlds to the Thieves Order, they produce strong wizards and honestly are a real threat. Recently Malistaire Drake has stolen the Eye of History from Bartleby the grandfather tree in Ravenwood, everyone really was shocked that this happened and it almost stopped everything in Wizard City. Now this is where I think we can take advantage of this situation. Rat I want you to steal the Eye of the Future."
He sat quietly for a second and pondered over the idea, "I'm a few years over school age…" he reached behind his head and unclipped his mask, his face almost as pale as his hair. "I guess I could look younger."
"You're one of our youngest members with the ability to be able to pull this off, and as you have already guessed you're gonna have to pretend to be a student. We have had people forge some paperwork, and you might wanna get used to your real name, teachers usually don't use nicknames." Erin smiled as Rat nodded in agreement.
"Yea I think that's a doable job, do I have a timeline?" Rat stood up getting ready to leave.
"You'll be starting at the end of the first semester which is in a few days, you have till the end of the year. Please do take your time, I don't want you getting caught." Erin reached out her hand and Rat shook it. "Good luck Valerian" Rat paused and Erin glared at him, "get used to it"
Rat nodded, "I'll try." he picked up his mask and strapped it on. He opened left her chambers and made his way back to his room.
Inside of his room he sat at a small desk, his stuff was scattered across it and he picked up a small piece of paper he had found in one of the first purses he stole, it was an acceptance letter into Ravenwood, he wondered if the girl he stole this from had graduated already, probably, it's been years. He never went to school so this was going to be weird.
He unclipped his mask and rested it on his desk, he wouldn't be able to wear it at the school, how disappointing.
About a week later he arrived at Ravenwood, since the school year had already started he had to check in at the headmaster's office. The world gate was inside of Bartleby, Rat supposed that if the tree lost his second eye, then maybe they would have to shut down the gate. He made a quick walk to the main office and met headmaster Ambrose.
"Ah hello Mr. Roseshard, welcome to Ravenwood. I do hope you enjoy your stay, I just wanted to make sure you get settled into your dorm. Since here at ravenwood we do have a lot of students some of them have to have roommates and your starting halfways through the year so of course you will have to have a roommate." Ambrose sat at his desk and pulled out a sheet of paper and handed it to Rat, it had a key attached to it and his roommate's name. "You will be sharing a room with one of my brightest students, I do hope you get along."
Rat nodded, "Thank you sir, I do hope we will get along fine." He shook hands with Ambrose and walked out of his office and towards the dorms, he looked at the paper, the name written on it was Christo Moondust. Rat sighed and walked to the door, he put the key in the door and it opened up to a small room, two beds were inside and on one of them was a blue haired boy.
The boy looked up from the book he was reading and smiled, "Hey you must be Valerian, I'm Christo." He got up to great Rat with a big smile on his face the entire time.
Rat smiled back and shook his hand, "You can call me Rat, I prefer it over Valerian."
Christo nodded, "Well, welcome to Ravenwood Rat."