Disclaimer: I do not own nor did create Sly Cooper or any other related characters. They are the property and Creation of Sucker Punch not me.
The perfect idea for this chapter came in my thoughts a couple of days ago. I just wanted to write it down! It's a good sizd chapter so pour yourself a cup of coffee, sit back and relax. Here it is so please do enjoy.
A Trip to the North
Carmelita was up for the next few nights trying to locate local propertys in wooded areas. It was hard to do because she didn't have the resources now that she had when she was an Interpol Inspector. She was getting closer and she knew it wouldn't belong before and location and address would pop up on her screen. Her computer was new and faster then her old computer, she bought it with the money Poma gave her. She felt chills down her spine. Carmelita felt bad that Mei was resticted to his home, she could see why he ran away in the first place. "So many children wish that they could grow up to be princesses and princes but they don't really know the pain that some royalty goes through. Mei sure wanted the opposite." She leaned back on her new sofa. "I know it's not like that for eveyone but his parents believed in tradition. All the way there in Canada, no friends, I wouldn't want to trade shoes with him."
Karlia said good night to Lica and sped off to her house. She felt bad for what she had done out of, well she didn't real know what it was. A shap pang hit her side. It was like she hadn't eaten in weeks. When she got home she flopped onto her bed and pulled the covers over her. A light flickered from her lap-top. It was a new message. With the blanket still over her she checked it. Hey eyes widened. It was a message from a friend of hers. Karlia had asked that person to try to find some back ground information about Lica. She could only give the person a picture of the raccoon. The rabbit looked over the information and her ears dropped. There were pages amoung pages of information about him. A small note from her friend said that she found it all on an Interpol file. It contained pages and pictures and back ground information. What she read wasn't good.
Sly couldn't sleep. Too many questions remaind on his mind. He couldn't focus on just one. Sly could feel that he had a connection to the fox, he wasn't exactly sure what it was, but it was a stong feeling. Every couple of minutes he would glance over at his clock to check what the time was. The sun was rising and his eyes began to close. He was getting sleepy, sleepier, and finally... he was out. No more questions to flood his mind, just peaceful sleep.
Karlia knew she had to tell Lica this information but she didn't know how to.
"You know the best approach is a direct approach." Her mother was giving Karlia some advice on her problem.
"You're right, I should say what I need to say and get it over with." She hung her head. That was going to be tough. Karlia had no clue how Lica would react to the startling news but it needed to be said. Karlia washed her plate and cup, hug her mother and said good bye. She was off to see Sly.
Bently was waiting for Penelope to arrive. She had invited him to breakfast at one of her favorite spots. Bently was early, really early. He arrived half an hour ago and Penelope wasn't expected to arrive for another twenty minutes. He was nervous and twitchy. The two had been on plenty of dates but for some reason he just wasn't himself.
Penelope finished tying her hair back, grabbed her keys, and walked out of her apartment. It was a beautiful morning. The sky was a mix of colors and a nice, gebtle breeze blew past her. "What a perfect morning indeed." She commented out loud. The tiny blond mouse was feeling good. Her life was going int the right direction. Penelope had two new friends, one of which she could proudly call her boyfriend. "Ah!" She sighed just thinking about that certain turtle. A few streets later she was there. "It's the best place to have breakfast." She said surprising Bently.
"Oh, hello." He could vomit at any moment. The nerves were too much.
A waiter approached their table and they ordered their meals. Bently pratically studdered every other word. The waiter took their menus and left them alone.
Carmelita was seconds away from sleep. She had been waiting for a reply on the locations she was seeking. Her head drooped, then she picked it back up. A few seconds of staring at a blank screen her head drooped again, but this time it was permenant. Carmelita Fox ws now offically asleep. Sleeping was one thing she wished she could live without. There just wasn't enough hours in her days. Every time she did sleep she would have horoable nightmares.
"Wha tha!" She was alert, drool dripped down the side of her cheek. She was asleep five minutes when her computer lit up. The opened the pop-up and inside was what she had been waiting for. "Damn it!" Carmelita was frustrated. "109 houses, what the hell!" She clicked a button that gave her a list of all the residents in the 109 homes. "Now, Mei said that the girls name was Karlia." She scranned the names thanking the heavens for that little bit of information.
"It's goiong to be a beautiful day." She tried to start a conversation. Bently twisted a napkin in his hand and he never let his eyes meet hers. "What is it!" She demanded to know. Bently froze in fear, the napkin fell from his hands. "You better start talking of will jam this fork in your throat." She was being playful but Bently knew that she was capable of such a thing.
"Well you see I want to be completly honest with you, no lies, no secrets." Penelope was regreting what she had just said. Bently wasn't studdering anymore, he was being completly serious. "I lived in Paris for most of my life." There was no going back now. "I was part of a well known gang. You probably heard of it, The Cooper Gang." He wasn't speaking loud, just loud enough for her to hear him. "I did all the heist planning, I took care of sercurity, I was the brains of that outfit. Murry was our muscle and get away driver." Penelope seemed to be taking it well. "Awhile ago the leader of the gang was arrested and me and Murry soon broke him out. We went to Brazil where we hid out for some time. Some how we slipped up and Interpol tracked us down. We were handcuffed and put in the back of a paddy wagon." The waiter brought them their food and after he was gone Bently continued. "The officers rumaged through our personal belongings. Sly was terribly private and didn't like his stuff being searched. He ran up to the officer holding a personal belonging of his. I don't remember much about that day. Sly was shot very close to his heart. I slipped him a stasis pill and then Murry and I left. We haven't seen Sly since that day. We came here to start our new lives and that's all I have in my closet." Bently picked up some of his mixed fruits. He waited for Penelope to say something.
"Cool!" She shouted. "You have had an interesting life. It sounded fun." Penelope seemed phyched about it.
'Cool' wasn't what he expected her to say. "You don't have a problem with what I have done?"
"Of course not. I know we do what we do inorder to survive and what you did was nothing terrible." This was indeed a perfect day. "I have something to tell you. It's the reason I asked you to breakfast."
Karlia gave Sly her lap top. He looked over all the information. His expression never changed. It told every thing about his life from his birth certificate to his death certifcate. The information seemed to relase a part of his mind that was locked by the stasis pill. He was watching a video that a sercurity camera caught. Sly snatched two paintings off the wall of a museum and was confronted by to guards and a firey fox. She shot at him with her shock pistol as he made his get away. Sly grinned. The video was over.
"That was one of our first heists." He commented.
Karlia shot him a questioning look. "You remembered that!" She had her hopes up.
Carmelita found only one address with a resident named Karlia. "That must be it." She wrote the address down, grabed her leather coat, and left her appartment. She wasn't to far away from Karlia's house. The wind blew through her hair. The fox was feeling pretty good. She turned on the radio and the song lifted her mood. She sang with it.
The heart is a bloom You're out of luck It's a beautiful day
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
"YES A NEW DAY!" Carmelita screamed over the roaring wind. She let her worries go.
You're on the road You love this town It's a beautiful day Touch me
In the maze of your imagination
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Take me to that other place
The woods were coming up and she could spot a few home. She looked for the one with the address number 175. There Carmelita hopped to find somthing that she was missing. She didn't know what she would find but she knew she would find the very thing she was looking for.
See the world in green and blue It was a beautiful day Touch me
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Take me to that other place
"You...Remembered... That!" She tried to hold in the excitment.
"Oh yeah, you can tell beacuse Bently forgot to shut that camera down. We were such ametures." The rabbit just starred at him, not saying a word. She waited for him to realize what he had said. "What!" It hit him like a ton of bricks. One of the locked doors of his mind opened. "I remember, we were just out of the orphanage were I grew up after my parents were killed by the fiendish five!" His head throbbed. He put his hands on his head.
"What's wrong?" The rabbit asked.
"That's all I remember." Sly was torn.
"Well there are a few more pages to read maybe some thing else might jog your memory." Those words gave the raccoon hope. He looked at the rest of the files but he remembered nothing else.
"Karlia!" Her grandmother called to her from the living room. "Your mother is on the phone and wants to talk to you." Karlia patted Sly on the shoulder and went to answer the phone.
"Yes?" She answered it.
"Karlia a young fox named Carmelita came over to the house looking to ask you a few questions...What was all that about!" He mother was wanting answers.
Karlia almost dropped the phone. "Quick! What did she want? Did she say anything?" She asked just as many questions as her mother had for her.
"Tell me whats going on!" She demanded that her daughter tell her every thing. "Are yo uin some sort of trouble!"
"No mother. Nothing like that." Her voice was calmed.
"Well she said she saw you at a club last night, A CLUB, and wanted to know if you know where the raccoon she saw with is. I told her that you were at your grandmothers and gave her the address. She seemed like a very nice woman." Her mothers tone kept changing. "Who is this RACCOON!"
"Um, thanks mom. Bye, love you!" She hung the phone up and ran into Sly's room. "Quick! We need to go!"
Sly shut the lap top and starred at her. "What?"
"That Interpol inspector from the club is on her way down here! Right now! She's after You!" Her heat was beating faster than it ever had.
Sly's heart also started to race. He grabbed a lot of his clothes and shoved them into bags. "Where are going to go! She tracked me down twice!" Sly tied the bags.
"I remember Nici said something about having a place in Canada we can go there." That sounded great. They left his bedroom. "Bye grandma, I am... Going on a little vaction. See you soon." She and Sly left out the back door. They heard a car approach as they left. The ran like lightning. They ran for their lives.
"Your getting a promotion today at work!" Penelope squelled. She got out of her chair and hugged a very stunned Bently. "I told them of your ideas and they said that they were great. Your ideas will save the billions." She squeezed him.
Bently chocked. Part from Penelope crushing him rib cages and part from the shock. Penelope let him go and kissed his cheek. She sat back in her seat and noticed that Bently still couldn't speak. "Thank you." He chocked out.
The young mouse smiled at him and he blushed. "You know your getting one of the top inventor positions in the entire company." She could tell that Bently had assumed that. They finished their meals, indeed it was a good day.
Murry had the day off. He spent it at a race track racing all the racers there. They were no competition for him. "This is losing it's fun." He removed his helmet and turned his vehicle off. Inside the racer's break room he got a snack from the vending machine and sat down to eat it.
"You were pretty good out there." He heard a voice behind him say. Murry turned around and saw a very beautiful cheetah. She was about six feet tall with black hair and slim legs.
"Um, yeah. Thanks." She was breath taking and he noticed her beauty. "I only wish there was some real competition out there." He threw the bag in a garbage can.
"I know a real good racer worhty of your talents." She leaned close to his face.
"You do!" He was ready for a challenge. "Who?"
She straightened her self and brushed back her long hair. "Me."
Carmelita knocked on the door of Karlia's grandmothers house she shuddered. He was almost in her grasp. An older amber furred rabbit answered the door.
"Yes?" She asked the fox standing before her.
"Hi, My name is Carmelita and I am a friend of Karlia." The rabbit opened the door. Carmelita stepped in and took a seat on the couch.
"And what brings you here?" She was some what suspicous, the old lady had never met this 'friend' of her granddaughter before.
"I am looking for the young raccoon that she was with last night, Sly." She was hoping for a good result out of her visit. "Do you know where Karlia is? I would really like to talk to her."
"You must be talking about Lica, he and Karlia just took off." She sipped her tea.
Carmelita's jaw dropped. "How long ago and did they say where?" Her expectations dwindled.
"They left hours ago." She lied. "I do not know where they left."
Not giving up she asked if she could search Lica's room. "To see if something in there tell where they went."
"You may." She stood and led Carmelita to Lica's room. The rabbit left her alone. The first thing Carmelita noticed was a laptop on the bed. She sat down and opened it. The power was still on and his most recent search was still up. It was a picture of her police profile. The scanned through the information, looking at every thing he did. After awile the grandmother came back in which made Carmelita jump. "Did you find what you were looking for?"
Carmelita noded her head. But it wasn't true. This new bit of informataion gave her more questions. 'Why would Sly have all this?' Some things just didn't add up.
Okay I know it was a little long but I just wanted to write more and more and more... I already have the perfect ending for this story and I can't wait to write! I really want to post the first Sly Cooper fan fiction story I wrote up soon, but that will be when I have more time. Hm, more time is what I really need.