A/N: Chapter three!! YAY Tell your friends to get Fanfiction accounts NOW, so they can look at this!! I NEED COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!! LOTSA COMMENTS!! And another thing, I apologize for it taking sooooooooooooooooooooo long!!!!!!!!!
3. Missing Page Equals Missing Family

It was close to midnight at the Cooper Gang's old hideout back in Paris(The old abandoned caboose), and Sly had just made an uneasy, yet successful heist down at the Louvre. While there, A young woman named Mae Hayate took Carmelita's place for the week. The gang was in a real pickle, but in a turn of events, she let them escape. Sly was baffled for her actions, and wasn't sure if they can trust her or not. Then, to the entire gang's surprise, the sneaky little raccoon managed to put a tracking device on Sly, where she and another acquaintance tracked him down and found him at the hideout.What will happen next for our criminals? (Read and find out, stupid!!)

"We Coopers can be very sneaky at times." said Mae Hayate

"Huh?" replied Sly, "What do you mean by, 'We Coopers'?"

"You still don't get it, do you?"

She walked deeper in the old caboose and sat down in one of the seats, next to Sly.

"This may come as a shock to you," she began, "But I'm your sister, Mae Cooper."

"THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"Sly said, while getting up and moving away from her, "My whole FAMILY LINE is dead, but me!"

Mae sat there and chuckled a bit.

"That's what I said, when I wound up at an orphanage in India." She said, "This cross gave me all of my answers."

She grasped the cross necklace tightly within her fist and closed her eyes for a moment. Slowly she opened them, looking back at Sly.

Sly, feeling a bit sorry, sat back down next to her. He still wasn't going to accept things like this so easily. Not after what happened between him and Neyla.

Sly, still very puzzled, asked, "How are you so certain that you're my sister?"

"I told you already," she began, "I got my answers from this necklace."

"What are you getting at?" asked Bentley

She smiled a bit and said, "Don't worry. I'm not here to try and bribe you guys for anything...or something stupid like that. I'm just happy that I'm not an only child who's orphaned."

"That still doesn't explain how you're related to me because of the necklace." Sly said firmly

"OH RIGHT! The necklace!" she exclaimed, "Back when I was a baby, I was raised at an orphanage in India. I grew up not knowing my parents or if I had any siblings or relatives at all. The people who brought me to the orphanage said I wore this cross around my neck. For years, I've kept it safe and close to me. When I was 15, another boy growing up with me stole it from me. I managed to get it back, but I noticed something was wrong with it. The tip of the cross was flipped open. I was highly confused. I closed it back, trying to forget, and I never opened it again, thinking that I would live peacefully in India the rest of my life. Then, three years later, something big popped up in India that was taking it's spot in the news. You, Sly Cooper, were all that India talked about. 'The supreme criminal of France' they would say. Once word got to the orphanage, they all thought that I had some affiliation with the Cooper Gang because they said that I looked a lot like you. Hearing this, I tried to open up the cross again to see if the secret opening had anything to do with this. I managed to get it open, and I noticed a small trace of paper inside of it. I tried to get it out, but I just couldn't. Then, a year later, a dog named Scruffles Scruffie came to the orphanage. He had many talents, so I asked him to get the paper out for me. To my surprise, he refused. Instead of leaving me hopeless, he showed me how to do it by using a simple bobby pin."

She put on a wide smirk and held up a black, small bobby pin in her right hand. She held the cross necklace in her left hand and flipped the top of it open. She then stuck the bobby pin inside of it, opening it a little. Then she pinched the bobby pin and pulled up a small piece of paper rolled up like an extremely tiny treasure map. Sly was impressed.

"Can you guess what this paper is, Cooper Gang?"

All three shook their heads.

"This is one-fourth of the page of the Thievious Raccoonus."

"WHAAAAT?" they all shouted

"That's impossible!" said Sly, "I've read that book and EVERYTHING was where it was supposed to be!"

"Really?" she said sarcastically, "Wanna check now?"

"FINE! I WILL!!"

At that instant, Sly walked outside of the caboose to the van, the rest following close behind him. He opened the back doors of the van and removed a blaket from the van's floor. It revealed a hidden Thievious Raccoonus book. He picked it up and flipped through the pages.

'Heh.' He thought, 'Think I've overlooked my own family's history? I'd die before I'd let that happen!'

He got closer and closer to the end of the book and flipped through the pages faster and faster. He finally reached the end of the book and everything was in order.

"HA! What did I tell ya!" Sly said triumphantly.

While he was laughing, Bentley squeezed past everybody and pointed somewhere in the book.

"Uhh... Sly?" Bentley said

"Yes my shelled companion?" Sly said, clearly sounding overconfident.

"What's that there? I've never noticed that in the book before."

Bentley pointed at theend flap o the book. Right at the crease was something that looked like a rip, starting from the top, down to the bottom of the book's flap.

"I dunno Bentley." Sly said, "I've never noticed it before. "

Sly pulled at it. It seemed as though it wasn't any ordinary tear. He pulled it further and then suddenly...

"That's...odd..." he said

He pulled it some more. It started to look like a hidden page stuck to the back...and as he pulled more, he flipped it over. He, Murray and Bentley gasped. It was, what appeared to be, a note of some kind. It took up the whole page.

"GADZOOKS!" cried Bentley, "It looks like something that your father wrote!"

"Come to think of it," began Sly, "I don't remember any of my father's chronicles ever written in the Thievious Racconus."

Mae chuckled and said, "That's pretty clever. So that's where it was hidden."

"What are you talking about?" asked Murray

"I'm talking about both the Thievious Raccoonus' hidden note AND my cross' hidden note." She said, "Hey Sly, read this."

She handed him the cross' note and Sly began reading it to himself:

"Mae, if you ever find this, it's a piece of the Thievious Raccoonus. My section of the Thievious Raccoonus. A part of the Cooper history. You are part of the great thieving line. I apologize for leaving you in India by yourself. I highly regret it, but it was for safety reasons. From the day you were born, I knew that you would have great potential and great thieving skills... once the time is right, of course. When you are old enough, go to Paris, and find Sly. Tell him that the line isn't so heavily burdened on his shoulders now. You and your younger brother Sly must come together. It is the will of your parents. But this is only one-fourth of my Thievious Raccoonus section. You both might not know this... but two other Coopers have the other pieces. You four are the last of the line. Join together as one. Mae, further information on you two is hidden in the Thievious Raccoonus. A thief should figure out where something as simple as that is hidden. It is your Cooper fate. from, the father of Mae and Sly Cooper. This is my last wish for the Cooper Gang's survivors"

The writing was surprisingly small and it took Sly a while to read. But by the time he finished, he gave a tiny chuckle and put on one of those sneaky like smiles across his gray face.

"Oh my goodness..." Sly said, still smiling

"What is it, Sly?" Bentley said, for being too short to read the note like everyone else could.

"I'm... a younger sibling!"

Mae punched him softly in the side.

"NOW do you see?" she said.

Sly didn't answer. The excitement was too much. He started smiling, then grinning, as it grew wider and wider. Then, he started laughing heartily.

"I'VE GOT A SISTER!!!" he shouted.

He then rushed over to Mae and hugged her tightly. She smiled and hugged him back. Then, she too began chuckling a bit.

"As much as I'd love to see Mae happy, we've got important matters to discuss, you two!" shouted a voice coming from the caboose.

The two raccoons stopped hugging and looked over to where the voice came from. It was the tiny, little, black dog that was with Mae. He stayed at the caboose door watching Sly's exciting reaction. (A/N: Damn... I totally left this poor critter out most of the way! Oh well... I know how to fix that!)

"Coming, Scruffles." said Mae.

Sly looked shocked.

"You mean to tell me," began Sly, "That the one who 'helped' you figure out the cross' secret message--"

"Is him?" she interupted, "You'd be correct, Sly."

"I'll explain once we all get inside." said Scruffles.

With that said, everyone followed Scruffles back inside the caboose.

As he sat down, he said, "As we all know, there are still two Coopers out there in the world."

Everyone nodded their heads in approval.

"That's good. Now, I've located their whereabouts with my computer, and, apparently, both Coopers are very far apart. One is in Japan... and the other is in deep Africa."

"Well then, what are we watiing for?!" exclaimed Sly, "Let's go right now!"

"By the time we reach either places, we'll be wiped-out tired!" said Scruffles, typing on his computer, which was as big as his head. (A/N: That's pretty fkin' small!), "So, I've made some sense of the situation, by aquiring tickets for the flight to Japan. Tomorrow morning, we leave for Japan...EARLY!!!"

"I guess we could do that too..." said Sly.

"By the time we reach Japan, I should have pinpoints on both of the Cooper's locations."

"HEY!" shouted Bentley, "That's MY job! I'm the brains around here!"

"Seriously?" asked Scruffles, curiously.

"Yes, I am, so leave the pinpointing to me!"

"I'm still shocked to find out that you're the brains of the Cooper Gang... no offense."

"And just what do you mean by that?"

"Oh nothing. It's just that, I've never seen any intelligent people who look like nerds! Usually the nerds are the dumb ones... no offense again..."

"Oh THERE is some offense there, Scruff!"

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't call me that. I HATE it when people give me that nickname."

"Really? Scruff, Scruff, Scruff, Scruffie-boy!"

"AARGH!! That's IT!! I'm gonna be the one who finds the other Coopers! NOT YOU!!!"

"Oh REALLY? Well, we'll just see about that!!"

"NO, we won't!" said Mae.

The rest of the gang was steadily watching Scruffles and Bentley quarrel. For the safety of her friend, Mae intervened. She picked up the little dog and held him close, as if he was a cute teddy bear.

Scruffles scoffed and said, "If it wasn't for me vowing to help Mae to the end, she wouldn't be here now! Remember that, turtle!"

"Whatever, 'Scruffled skirt'!" said Bentley, scoffing back.

"What'd you say?" said Scruffles, trying to break free of Mae's grip.

"You feelin' okay, Bentley?" asked Murray

"FINE, Murray, JUST FINE!!" said Bentley, "I'm done with this pup! If any of you guys need me, I'll be in the van trying to contact Penelope and see how she's doing on herr vacation!"

Scruffles made sure that Bentley was out of the room before he asked, "Who is Penelope?"

"Bentley's girlfriend." said Sly.

Scruffles was getting ready to burst out laughing, and tried his hardest to hold it in.

When he got a hold of himself, he said, "If Bwenltey has a girlfriend...then I don't wanna know what she looks like!"

The rest of the gang stayed silent.

'Well, he's sure in for a surprise!' thought Sly, smiling slightly.

Suddenly, a beeping went off. Mae gasped and reached down in her pockets and pulled out a pager. She looked at it with disgust.

"It's Mike, my partner cop." she said, "He's probably paging me about me switching shifts with him."

"All right." said Scruffles, "Let's go."

Before he could take a single step, he was blocked by Mae's hand.

"I think you should stay here with the others." Mae said.

"WHAT?!" he shrieked, "Did you not see the rude turtle?"

"Please?"

She began scratching the back of his ears which felt so good to hi until he succumbed to her will.

"OH ALRIGHT FINE!!" he shouted, "Just stop your tormenting ways!!"

"I knew you'd see it my way..." she said.

Afterwards, she made her way out of the caboose and headed straight for Interpol. Sly and Murray tried their best to find a place for Scruffles to sleep.

"It's okay." he said, "I'll just sleep on the floor."

"Are you sure?" asked Sly, "Because you can take my bed if you want."

"That's alright. I find the floor much comfortable. er... it's a dog thing that I'm used to."

"Ok. If that's what you want..."

Meanwhile, back with Mae, she was walking down a dark alleyway, armed and ready with her pistol. It didn't take long before she met up with a dark figure behind a trash can. He wore a big overlong coat and a matching hat to boot.

"You're late." the dark figure said, "I thought you said you were out of that place after I paged you."

"I was nearly out of there." responded Mae, in that seductive tone of hers, "That Cooper Gang wasn't hard to manipulate at all."

"I take it that you had fun?"

"While it lasted."

"And the other Coopers?"

"In two different countries. That's all I could find out."

"Which two countries?"

"..."

"Come on. You can tell old Ken Puma!"

"I just don't know, boss." she lied, "I'll find out where they're going sooner or later. After all, playing a criminal when you're really a cop isn't half bad...not half bad at all..."

The figure known as Puma grinned widely, but it was too darke for Mae to see. But she could tell from his low laughter.

"I must say, you're quite better at this than Carmelita ever would be." he said

"I'm glad you approve, Ken." she said, "Now all I have to do is show up tomorrow."

"Good luck. Interpol is counting on you to take down this expert criminal. There'll be a great promotion if you are successful."

"Heh. Lord knows how I can't wait for that!"

A/N: And that's that. I hope you all liked it. It DID take me like, four Fkin' weeks to finish! I apologize for that, once again. I'll try to make chapters more faster. In truth, I did finish this chapter, like, a week ago, but, somehow, my computer fked up and wouldn't let me write again. I had to wait thirty minutes, but it was late, and I waited a week instead! HAHAHAHA!! Sucks to be me... sucks to be me...