Night of Black Fire

By: Tidota Eru

Ch.1: Shadows in the Moonlight

It was a beautiful night to be out in Paris. The moon was glowing bright, and the stars twinkled like a million daimonds. The brightness of the light cast shadows up and down the alley's of the city streets. A figure was hidden in those shadows, a grin creeped across his face as he sneaked through the night. Turning on his communicator the racoon started to speak...

"This is Sly reporting in" said the racoon " I have the target in sight,"

"Sly be careful" said a voice over the com " the 'fox' lady isn't gonna make this heist any easier,"

"Don't worry Bentley" said Sly "with my good looks she's bound to take her eyes off that jewel of hers,"

"Alright lover boy" said Bentley in mock disgust " just get going,"

Cutting off the link Sly started on his mission. Just a few months ago Sly had read in the papers about a interesting jewel called the 'Jade Dragon', reading further he had also found out that the lead of security for the jewel was noone else but Carmilita Fox. Bentley didn't know if Sly had really wanted to do more, steal the stone or flirt with Carmilita.

Muesuem security looked tight, before Sly could look for a way past the guards he saw a dark figure standing in the moonlight. Sly's eyes almost popped out the moment he saw her. Long, silky white fur glowed in the moonlight, her crystal blue eyes shown like stunning saphires, a ruby-colored mask surrounded everypart of her face except those eyes and of course the mouth.

Sly quickly got out his spy cam and took a picture of her, he was so caught up in her beauty that he didn't notice that an alarm had just gone off. Shaking his head Sly looked to see every single guard rush off into the night.

"What's got into them" Sly said " it's like they've seen a ghost,"

Suddenly he saw what the guards were running from, a big black wolf was chasing after them with teeth and claws bared. A sudden flash of green caught Sly's eye as the wolf ran down the streets, but he wouldn't think of that until later. Quickly he ran inside the building in hopes to steal the Jade Dragon, but to his disgrace the place had been trashed to pieces. The Jade Dragon was gone.

The sound of moaning reached Sly's ears and he instantly ran towards the sound. There, lying on the ground, barely moving was Inspector Fox. Sly slowly approached her and curled her up his arms.

"What happened to you?" he asked.

"That beast..." said Fox "it came out of nowhere... at first you think your looking at an angel...but it turns out...,"

Inspector Fox blacked out, Sly noticed that he wouldn't get any more out of her now. Before Sly could make another move four armed guards came in. Seeing an unconious Inspector Fox in Sly's hands they imedtaely surrounded him.

"Put your hands where I can see them Cooper" said one of the cops "you're under arrest,"

A blast suddenly sounded and to Sly's surprise Bentley in his wheelchair and Maurry came bursting in and started to take care of the guards. Inspector Fox was just begining to regian conious, but Bentley did not plan to stick around by the time she did. As soon as the last guard was taken care of Sly and the gang ran for it and just in time. Carmilita was up and looked around.

"Hold your fire men" she said "where's the Jade Dragon?"

"Gone" said one of the troops " that thieving racoon and his gang must of ran off with it the moment they knocked you out,"

Carmilita's eyes lighted with fury as a single thought crossed her mind "Cooper...,"

Running back to the safehouse Sly ordered everyone to stop and explianed what he saw.

"That white wolf I saw must have stolen the Jade Dragon and slugged Inspector Fox," said Sly.

"If that's true" said Maurry "then what was that beast that ran after the guards?"

Sly shook his head as Bentley started to say "Look Sly, because of this incident you are now public enmey number one! The police will be on our tail from now on and we could end up in jail,"

"We have no proof that this white wolf did anything anyway, " said Maurry.

Sly hung his head down and suddenly his ears picked up a whispering voice. Motioning for the others to be quiet Sly strained his ears to listen to the someone talking.

"Yes" said the voice "everything went exactly as planned. The cops are now playing the blame game on some racoon I saw near the muesuem tonight...,"

The conversation halted for a minute and continued "Don't worry, I will get that key and then Operation: Black Fire shall begin,"

The talking stopped and the group shared what each of the other had heard. What was this Operation: Black Fire? Who was the white wolf and who was she talking to? All they had were questions and no answers. The white wolf started jumping from roof to roof, there was no telling where she was going.

"Come on" said Sly "we got to follow her,"

"Better than staying around here with the cops on our tail," said Bentley.

"Let's get going," said Maurry and together the trio of thieves went after the white wolf.