Arthur's Journal.

Journal Entry #1

My name is Arthur Curry. This is my first journal entry. I am officially a part of the Cooper Gang. I like hanging around with Sly and the Gang. It has been a few weeks since I was rescued by the Cooper Gang. Me and my little brother Orm have officially become the first human members of the Cooper Gang. I eventually learned from Sly that he along with his raccoon brethren were a part of a thieving clan that dated back centuries. They documented their capers in an ancient journal called the Theivius Raccoonus (which I thought was the stupidest name for a book ever). The Thievius Raccoonus was passed down from Cooper generation for centuries.

Sly eventually told me and Orm that his parents were going to give him the Thievius Raccoonus on his eighth birthday, when all of a sudden, five guys showed up at the Cooper Residence. His father had fought to protect Sly and his mother from danger. Sly's father was killed by the members of a gang called The Fiendish Five. Sly's mother ended up with PTSD and was forced to give her raccoon son to an orphanage. There, Sly met a turtle named Bentley and a hippopotamus named Murray. They grew up together in the orphanage. And the rest was history. I will write more journal entries later on.

One last thing before I sign off, the turtle named Bentley made me an robotic hand and covered it with a type of synthetic material that looked and felt like human skin. It connected to all of the muscles of my left arm. The hand is super cool. It has a couple of quirks, like some of the fingers can transform into tools like a screwdriver and whatnot, but other than that, it functioned like a normal human hand. It was so good, that the average person wouldn't have even known that I'd lost my original human hand to a bunch of flesh eating piranha fish.

Arthur.

Regular P.O.V.

Arthur was in the Cooper Van. It had been a couple of weeks since Arthur Curry and his brother Orm had joined the Cooper Gang. The Cooper Gang was getting ready to defeat the Fiendish Five, the group that killed off Sly's father and had stolen the Thievius Raccoonus. The gang's goal was to bring the Thievius Raccoonus back from the Fiendish Five. Arthur was currently listening to one of his favorite bands: Ween. Ween was an alternative rock band from the 1990s that almost nobody on this Earth had ever heard of. They weren't really that successful. The band Ween had gained kind of a cult following over the years.

Bentley, Murray and Arthur's little brother Orm were in the van along with Arthur. The van was parked near the headquarters of Paris's Interpol HQ building, specifically the parking lot. They were all waiting on Sly, who was busy trying to obtain a police file from the office of a certain female Interpol fox named Carmelita Fox. The raccoon had just broke into the Police HQ. The raccoon snuck into the office of Carmelita Fox. The office looked lie your standard police office. There was wanted posters of Sly and his gang posted all over the bulletin board of the office. Sly went over to the huge safe that was in the office. Bentley told the raccoon the code to unlock the safe.

The raccoon entered the code of the safe. Once the safe was opened, Sly obtained the police file. He put in his signature calling card into the safe. The hippo told his raccoon friend to get into the Cooper Van and to head through the fire escape. Sly went to the fire escape of the police building. He heard a feminine Latino voice say to him, "Criminal!"

A orange furred vixen police officer appeared on a nearby rooftop. The vixen had dark blue azure blue hair. She wore a choker around her neck in which hung her police badge. The vixen wore a tan jacket over a dark blue midriff top that zipped up at the front. She wore pants. The vixen was none other than Carmelita Montoya Fox of Interpol. She wasn't happy to see Sly Cooper standing outside of the fire escape.

"You foolish raccoon!" Carmelita said to Sly.

" Ahh... Carmelita. I haven't seen you since I gave you the slip in Bombay." Sly said smoothly to Carmelita.

"Which reminds me — you need to return the Fire Stone of India to its rightful owners." Carmelita said to the raccoon.

"Aw, and I was going to give it to you as a little token of my — hey, you know that bazooka really brings out the color of your eyes. Very fetching!" Sly said to Carmelita.

"You think? This pistol packs a paralyzing punch. You ought to try it. Might snap you out of your crime spree." The vixen said.

" And give up our little rendezvous?" Sly said.

"Plenty of time for that once you're safely behind bars." Carmelita said.

" Love to stick around and chat, but I just dropped by to pick up this case file. I think you've had it long enough." Sly said to Carmelita. The raccoon ran through the fire escape while the vixen shot at him using some sort of electric pistol. Sly made a mad dash toward the Cooper Van. Arthur was surprised by how fast the raccoon ran into the van. The hippo put the van in drive and drove out of the police headquarters parking lot. Arthur was relieved that the raccoon had managed to get the secret police file from police headquarters. The van headed back toward the train car hideout to plan out how to defeat the Fiendish Five.