A/N: I do not own Murray or any other characters from the Sly Cooper series, they belong to the one and only Sucker Punch Productions.
CHAPTER 5
It had been five months since Inspector Fox had dropped me off at the orphanage. He would of course drop by once every few days to fill me in on how the search for my fictional relatives was going. Every time though I would be told "the investigation is slow, but we will find them," even though I knew they would never find "them."
The time I spent at the orphanage was better than expected, but only because I spent it with Bentley. We would spend the days either doing crazy stuff or just hanging out, the whole time Bentley being protected from bullies by me. My best friend would often test one of his experiments on myself, which I thought was the coolest thing in the world. Despite all the heart ache I had been through the time I spent with Bentley made everything better. However the turtle was not the only friend I made.
Like I said I had been at the orphanage five months and Bentley and I had just gotten out of school. Since Mrs. Puffin was the only adult who spoke English at the orphanage we had to be taught by her while all the other French kids had the other adults teach them. Anyway, Bentley and I just got out of class. "Dude, I do not understand how you enjoy learning." I said laughing as we exited Mrs. Puffin's office. Bentley put a book he was reading away in his shell and told me "Well, I really don't like being taught by the uptight old bird but I do love school." I just rolled my eyes at my over achieving friend. "Whatever, school is all numbers and fancy words. That stuff isn't gonna help you in the real world." I said making Bentley roll his eyes right back. We were silent as we continued down the hall not saying a word. "Wait, Murray I just remembered I have a new experiment I want to test out. You up for it?" Bentley saying sounding like he already knew my answer, which he did. I simply looked at him and smiled.
We stood out in the large backyard of the orphanage. The only people outside besides us were four French kids to concern with their game of soccer to notice us. Bentley pulled a tricycle out of the bushes. "Hey what did you do to my ride?" I asked sounding a bit angry. The "ride" was not actually mine, it was free for anyone to play with but ever since I started using it everyone was too frightened to take it away from me. "Oh, you mean these?" Bentley asked pointing to the rocket shaped things attached to the back. I nodded looking at the modifications Bentley made to the tricycle. "Well to be honest I think you'll like them, if you like going fast."Bentley said giving me a devilish look. I smiled and hoped onto the seat simply saying "Now you're talking my language!" I was ready to go but of course Bentley gave me the usual run down. "Alright, now I designed these rockets to speeds up you're tricycle a little but I have not tested them yet. So all I need you to do is activate them and hit the emergency break I installed when I tell you." Bentley noticed the entire time I was just scratching my stomach and staring blankly into space. "Murray, did you listen to anything I just said?" Just then I snapped out of my trance. "Yeah, now less talkie more riding!" I yelled hoping up and down on the trike. Bentley handed me a helmet witch I threw over my shoulder with a laugh. I pulled out my over sized goggles and snapped them on. Bentley backed up a little and began to count, "One, Two, Three Go!" I immediately began to peddle as fast I could witch activated the rockets and sent me zooming at top speeds. I sped around the backyard at top speeds as a trail of fire shot out of the rockets burning the grass. "I think I made the rockets a tad too powerful." Bentley said to himself nervously. "This is so totally awesome! Whoo-hoo!" I yelled as the wind smacked against my face almost painfully. "Murray, hit the emergency break! You are going too fast, if you crash the damage could be catastrophic!" Bentley yelled at me when I almost hit the kids playing soccer. I looked at the small metal lever attached to the side marked "emergency break" and rolled my eyes. "Calm down Bent! There is no way that a master driver like The Murray is gonna," I looked ahead to see I was heading straight for a tree. "CRASH!!!!" I yelled right before crashing into the large tree.
"Ouch!" I yelled as the nurse moved my arm up and down. The nurse turned to Mrs. Puffin who was standing right behind her and said something in French. "What did she say?" Bentley asked, sitting in a chair near the door. The nurse left the room and Mr. Puffin said "She says there is nothing serious but he defiantly broke his left arm." I laid down not surprised by the news at all. "Now, Bentley Albert Turtle I thought you knew better then to do something like this." Mrs. Puffin continued to yell at Bentley saying he was responsible for my accident. "I feel a punishment coming up." I thought to myself. "Mrs. Puffin don't yell at Bentley. It was my entire fault, I wanted the tricycle to go faster so I made Bentley build me these rockets." I lied still lying down on the bed. Mrs. Puffin was quiet shooting both me and Bentley glances. "Fine, I believe you and seeing as you're arm is broken that is punishment enough." Mrs. Puffin took one last beady look at both of us before leaving the room. "Thanks buddy, I was really worried about having to scrub every toilet in the orphanage." Bentley thanked me sounding very relieved. "It was nothing my four eyed friend." I said hiding the pain being caused by my broken arm. "Murray, I'm really," Before Bentley could finish I quickly said "Don't be sorry dude, if anything I should be thanking you that rocked."
Bentley and I were heading back to our room, with my arm in a cast being held in a sling. Once we stepped inside the room as usual I laid down on my bed while Bentley reached under his bed for one of his books. "What the, where are my books?" Bentley asked confused. I just shrugged while I laid my head against a pillow. He headed over to the closet and looked inside to find that his books were not there as well. "Murray, I can't find them." Bentley said still looking around the little box that was our room. I got off the bed and walked over to my worried friend. "Okay where was the last place you left them?" I asked which made Bentley say "Murray, they are a bunch of books. I don't think I left them all somewhere."As Bentley and I argued over where the books could be we didn't realize a hook shaped cane was lowering down over my head. The yellow hook latched itself around my goggles, which lay loosely on top of my head. I soon felt something was missing and touched my head to find my goggles were missing. "Hey, what happened to my goggles?" I asked Bentley. He looked at my head and saw the hook holding my goggles on the end. He pointed at the ceiling and we looked up to see a figure in blue holding a can twice as tall as him. "Ahhhhhhhhh!" Bentley screamed going into his shell, while I took the end of cane and gave it a forceful tug. This caused the figure to lose his footing on one of the ceiling's banisters and he fell to the ground face first. Once he hit the ground the figure looked like a bundle of blue cloth, except for the striped tail sticking out from under it. Also he was wearing a red backpack which fell off and opened in the fall. Bentley came out of his shell to find all of his books inside the bag. "Hey, that thief tried to take my books!" Bentley yelled grabbing the books and shoving them under his bed. I grabbed my goggles from the floor and slapped them on top of my head. The bundle of cloth shuffled a bit on the floor and got to his feet, the whole time grumbling to his self. "Man, dad would be so ashamed right now! I'll never be a master thief." He said once on his feet. Bentley and I got a good look to see he wasn't a bundle of blue cloth but instead a boy dressed in oversized cloths. He had blue boots and gloves that seemed to dangle off of him, a yellow belt that was stuck around his ankles, a blue shirt that looked like a dress on him, and finally a hat that covered his face. However, his most noticeable feature was the cane that looked like the size of a normal adult compared to him. Slowly the figured revealed himself. A pair of pointy gray ears stuck out from under the cap as a snout of the same color found its way out of the cap. Suddenly he reached up and pulled the cap off to reveal he was a raccoon.
Suddenly the door burst open to show Mrs. Puffin holding a bat. "What's going on in here?! Is everyone okay?!" Mrs. Puffin yelled ready to knock any intruders head off with her bat. "Oh nothing is wrong Mrs. Puffin. It's just when the guys came in I was surprised and fell of the top of my bunk bed." The raccoon said with a fake smile. Mrs. Puffin realizing me and Bentley did not know who the boy was she explained "Oh, I'm sorry you boy's haven't been introduced. Sly these are the boys I told you about, Bentley Turtle and Murray Hippo." Mrs. Puffin pointed at me and Bentley separately before finishing. "Murray and Bentley this is Sly Cooper. Just like you he speaks English and so that you boys are more comfortable I thought I should have him room with you. Now, anyway Murray rests your arm and Sly be careful with that cane." Sly nodded and Mrs. Puffin left. Bentley and I both looked at this raccoon known as Sly. "What are you looking at?" Sly said pulling his belt up and leaping onto the ladder. He climbed up to the bunk on top of mine and lay down. "Where do you get off?" Bentley yelled at Sly who sat up and asked "What?" Bentley frowned and rolled his eyes. "You can just come into our room and try to steal our stuff like some common thief!" Bentley yelled while I nodded in agreement. "You nailed it Turtle." Sly said with a smirk. "Huh?" Bentley simply said, for the first time looking like he didn't understand. Sly laughed and turned his head to us while he let his feet dangle off the side of the bed.
"Well that's just it, I'm a thief."
A/N: Hooray the whole gang is here! Now doesn't worry I'm going to show what happens after this next chapter. Also if Sly comes across kind of rude don't worry I'm changing that. Now before I go I just want to thank all my reviewers and for anyone reading this please check pasta16's story out. It's a really good Penelope fic and the final chapter is coming up! R&R and BYE!!!