How the Cooper Gang met

Here is the first chapter of my 'orphan adventures'; based off the Sly Cooper Series in my own eyes, enjoy.

This chapters quite abit to read but I'm sure you'll manage.

- 1982 November 6th 9:37 pm

It was another late night at the Orphanage for Ms. Puffin. As usual the old bird was busy in paper work, all the orphans were asleep or at least in their bedrooms. Time to pack it in she thought to herself and began to clean up her desk when a loud knock at the door was heard from down the hallway. Its quite late for a drop off she thought and adoption hours are long gone. She quickly headed out her office and down the wide hallway leading to the front doors. She peeped through the eye hole no sign of anyone. With a slight look of confusion she unlocked the doors and peered out into the dark streets of Paris, the first thing she notices is a small basket on the doorstep presumably an 'orphan to be' inside, she opened the basket revealing a small spherical like egg, given her experience of drop offs she could tell at a glance it was clearly a land turtle egg, a small note was also there she read it 'please take of my son Bentley WiseTurtle'. Poor thing she thought its going to be born without a mother. She looked down the cold streets spotting a small shadow moving quickly fading in the distance. Without thought she pulled it in out of the cold and took it to the nursery care room to keep the egg safe until it hatched. She placed the egg in an artificial nest and finally locked the Orphanage up for the night.

- 1982 December 16th 8:48 pm

It had been over a month since the egg was anonymously dropped off at the orphanage, Ms. Puffin kept a close eye over it at all times, it was very harsh in her mind for some one to drop an unborn child of at her door especially something as vulnerable as an egg then again maybe she had become sensitive in her old age. As usual she was checking how the egg was doing, the inner temperature was normal as usual, she stroked the scaly turtle egg, to her shock a small crack was formed. Good heavens! she thought what have I done! another crack formed on the other side, it must be hatching she thought relieved she hadn't of killed it. She placed it down on the artificial nest and let the baby turtle hatch. A small turtle beak poked out of the cracked turtle egg, its little beady eyes scanned the area around it. Ms puffin cupped the infant turtle in her wings and took it over to the scales, after weighing it she checked it in as male and took him back to the nest and watched over him for the night.

As the years rolled by Bentley grew with a few surprises along the way, at age 1 the orphanage found out he was an asthmatic, at age 3 they discovered he was allergic to both lemons and tomatoes and at age 4 he needed glasses. Despite all these characterizations Bentley proved to be incredibly intelligent in many subjects, he excelled in classes and was praised by many teachers, unfortunately for him this isolated him from his fellow students due to their jealousy of him and gave him some attentions from the class bullies. Usually spending his free time alone reading books Bentley was often targeted by bullies and had his belongings stolen from him. As usual for him he had to go down to the reception to report another 'missing item', of course he knew it had been stolen but the receptionist just ignored his stories and told him she'd inform him if anything came in, as usual he went up to his bedroom bored and annoyed. All he wanted were friends, he stared out of the window and watched a car roll up outside the Orphanage gates. Bentley watched as a slightly fat pink hippo was led to the front doors to be dropped off. With the thoughts of this newcomer becoming his friend Bentley went down stairs to hear the story behind this child. reaching the 1st floor Bentley hid on the staircase to hear the background on this guy after all it would be rude just after his parents died .His name was Murray Hippo, his mother had died at childbirth and his father had recently died in a accident on the race tracks. Despite seeming pretty lost the hippo had a look of confidence in his eyes looking around the place, this intrigued Bentley, looking around the hippo spotted Bentley hiding on the staircase, Bentley gasped in fear of getting shouted at but the hippo just smiled and winked at him Bentley immediately smiled back it had been a while since he had been giving any social interaction with his fellow orphans. He hoped for a new friend out of this seemingly friendly hippopotamus. The moment of happiness was over the bell rang for 3rd period Bentley headed there straight away.

The first one in as usual Bentley sat at his desk in the center of the classroom waiting for his classmates to arrive. The teacher came over to him smiling "good work Bentley" he said holding a test with a big A on it "another test aced". Bentley smiled at him obliviously happy at his result of course this was nothing new from him. Some class members came in quietly taking their places and being given their test results. To Bentley's shock the new kid walked in and to Bentleys delight he took a seat next to him. "Okay class before we start today let me introduce you to our newest class member Murray Hippo say hi" the class automatically responded to the request. The class bullies strolled in late ignorant of the teacher marking the time. They observed the hippo for a brief moment who hardly looked moved at all by them then they went to their desks hitting Bentley on the way past on purpose "oops sorry friend" one of them sarcastically remarked to him. Bentley rubbed his head noticing that Murray has given them slight 'evils' and showed a small sign of sympathy for him in his eyes. Class went on as usual as Bentley try to focus, the students would randomly throw things at one another the bullies specifically targeting Bentley, whilst put off by their actions Bentley exchanged in a few waves and smiles etc. with Murray, despite this guy seeming the polar opposite of himself his hope of having a friend at this anti-social place was coming true.

The weeks rolled by at the orphanage, Bentley and Murray didn't form a very close relationship like Bentley was hoping for but they occasionally waved and smiled etc. no proper interaction but enough to suffice for Bentley. One day Bentley was walking down the hallway when Murray came up behind him. "Hey Bentley just thought you'd might like to know, some racoons coming here apparently his parents were killed by some gang called 'The Fiendish Five' pretty tragic can't wait to meet him though sounds pretty awesome don't yah think pal?" Bentley simply replied "ermm yeah he does and thanks for telling me …. Friend" "No problem see ya later little buddy" and patted him on the shoulder before walking off. Bentley now happy at the short conversation with his supposed 'friend to be' and the idea of another child coming to the orphanage. Bentley walked to his bedroom and went on to read some of his books.

A few days after the short conversation with Murray Bentley overheard about the new orphan was just arriving and quickly headed to the lobby. On his way down the lobby stairs he saw Murray had already gotten there and was greeting the raccoon, this guy was pretty average looking, light grey fur and holding a golden cane on him. "This is Murray" said Ms. Puffin introducing the two "he's a very friendly person you'll soon discover" she went on "he'll give you a tour of the place". Bentley's heart sank he would of hoped to of given the new guy a tour in a chance to make a proper friend. "What's your name pal?" asked Murray "Sly" responded the raccoon "Sly Cooper", Sly Cooper Bentley thought in his head with delight. "Well best get on with the tour ey fella?" said Murray "This way". Bentley watched as the two walked off down the hallway beneath him, he sighed if only I had gotten here earlier he thought walking back to his bedroom to read once again. He sat in his bedroom he couldn't concentrate over the thought of both Murray and Sly, these guys seemed so great and all he wanted was to be their friends. In anger he threw the book he was reading at the wall he didn't want to spend the rest of his days at the orphanage with no friends at all, he lay in his covers lost in his thoughts thinking of a way to become these guys friends.

Bentley was hoping this Sly Cooper would be a new friend to him being new and all but again his small dream was shattered. Murray didn't really pay much attention to Bentley as he used to he was more or less always hanging out with Sly. Bentley watched as Sly and Murray hung out at free time Sly even took Bentleys place in class forcing Bentley to sit at the back and watch as the two's bond grow stronger. As usual Bentley got an A on the test, he was hoping this short praise would get the attention of Sly and Murray but his hope was short lived as neither of the two took a glance at him. Class ended, sad and lonely Bentley walked up to his bedroom ready to spend another lonely afternoon feeding his brain with books. He walked into his room and slammed the door, immediately behind him bullies barged in. "What are you guys doing in here" he asked panicking! The ring leader spoke up "you think your so smart turtle acing all your exams and making us average students look stupid" Bentley looked helpless quickly thinking of an excuse "I .. I .. don't mean to honest" he replied backing away, the bully ignored his reason "OK boys time to give this runt a brutal beating" the leader ordered . Bentley let out a cry for help and hid under the bed, "what kind of hiding spot is that turtle?" said one of the Bullies mockingly. They began to kick him in his ribs and head. His cries of pain were heard by Sly and Murray who heard the ruckus down the hallway, they ran into the room "hey what the hell you think your doing to our buddy" Sly protested. The bullies stopped kicking Bentley who was now a quivering wreck "were teaching him lesson not to make us look stupid" the leader responded. "Well I think its about time you bullies were taught a lesson" said Sly, the bullies laughed "were not afraid of a fat pink freak and his scrawny sidekick" Sly chuckled and Murray locked the door behind him. Sly grabbed the leader with his cane and repeatedly whacked him with it in his arms and stomach Murray ran straight at the bullies who were corned and slash at one and then an another until they were all pretty badly beaten, Sly raised his voice "Now if any of you guys say a word about how you came to have those bruises all over your bodies then I'm sure Ms. Puffin would love to know why Bentleys in his current state, you get what I'm saying", Bentley still a bit shaken crawled out from under his bed. "You okay Bentley" asked Sly "Yeah I'm okay I guess" he replied shocked that Sly knew his name"thanks guys","No problem" said Murray "those guys give you any more trouble just let us know pal" Bentley smiled, Sly nosed around Bentley's room there were two spare beds and Bentley's of course. "You like to read books huh?" said Sly to Bentley examining his small collection of books "yes I sure do" he responded tidying his book shelf "This little guys the brains of the class Sly" Murray told "I'm not really sure if you guys read comics like me but we'd be the perfect trio" Bentleys eyes lit up at the words that came out of Murray's mouth "really" said Sly chuckling "I mean it" Murray went on "With me the brawn, Sly the nimble little guy and you Bentley the brains its perfect" "wow" said Bentley astonished at Murray's proposal "Well conveniently there's two beds for us to crash with ya" Sly said pouncing on his new bed "Me and Murray here were thinking of having a midnight feast tonight care to join us little guy?" Bentley happily nodded "by all means make yourselves at home" he said "my room is your room". "Then its settled" Sly announced "I here by announce us the cooper gang". Both Bentley and Murray looked at him confused "who?" they asked him. "oh how silly of me let me explain the great story of my ancestors" said Sly .......

Okay that's the first chapter for you, the next one shouldn't be too long really Sly explains his life up to then and then they begin building a plan for "The Midnight Feast."