An eight year old Sly Cooper is sitting on his father's lap. Listening to his father tell him about an amazing book he and the other coopers before him have written. A book called the Thievius Raccoonus.

"This book contains our family's legacy. Every trick and secret we have discovered is in this book. This is the book that trained me to be a master thief and now it is your turn. When a Cooper turns eight years old he inherits this book in order to begin their training as a master thief. Now this will take years of training but in time you will be writing your own secrets in the book." Connor Cooper said as he set sly on the ground.

"Boys dinner is ready!"

"Come on sly your mother has dinner done. Let's go eat!"

"I'm starving!"

As the words left Sly's mouth the cooper family heard a loud crash coming from the front door. Connor quickly grabs Sly takes him to the nearest closet and sets him down inside.

"Sly these bad guys want to hurt us so I need you to remain completely quiet." Sly was too scared to say anything he just looked at his father with complete terror in his eyes. Connor shuts the door but there is a little crack left open so sly can see. He sees his mother on the phone with someone he can only assume to be the police. He hears his father fighting and things breaking. This goes on for about an hour when suddenly he sees his dad fall right before the closet door with blood all over him. Sly wants to just scream out but remembers his father's words and just stays quiet.

"Alright! We got the Thievius Raccoonus, The secrets of the cooper family! But don't they have a son?"

"Who cares? Without the Cooper's precious book they are nothing! We will tear the book into fifths and each take a share." Sly hears a robotic voice say. He then hears the book being ripped and them leaving.

Sly slowly gets up and exits the closet. He sees his mother lying in a pool of blood and his father right in front of him in much of the same condition. Sly just sits down picks up his father's cane and cries.

He doesn't notice the sirens or when police enter the house. One of the officers puts a blanket around him and continues on. Eventually one of the officers informs Sly that they would like to take him down to the station to get the facts on what happened here. Sly just slowly nods his head and the officer carries him to his car and drives him to the station.

Once they get to the police station they officer takes sly into one of the interrogation rooms and begins talking.

"So your name is Sly Cooper right?"

"Yes sir." Sly quietly responds.

"Can you tell me who did this or at least why."

"I don't know who did it but they were after a book. But I do remember that one of them had a robotic voice. That's all I know I was in a closet the whole time." Sly's voice is beginning to weaken and he is felling very tired.

"Do you have any living relatives? Anywhere we could take you?" The officer gently asks. Sly shakes his head no and the officer gets up and walks out the room leaving Sly with his thoughts.

About thirty minutes later the officer returns.

"Well sly, since we don't have anywhere to take you I made some calls and a nearby place call Happy Camper Orphanage are more than happy to take you in. I already got a cab ready to take you there." The officer says while walking out of the building and to the cab with Sly.

"What about my things from home" Sly asks while getting in the cab.

"We already sent your things over." The officer responds while closing the door for Sly.

Sly just sets his cane down on the ground and lays back as far as the chair will let him and clothes his eyes thinking about his new home until sleep overtakes him.

Well that's it for the second chapter. Review and if you have any suggestions on how I can improve my writing or some story ideas let me know.