Sly looked across the large yard that separated him from his new home. He was too sad about his father's death that he didn't care. An social worker led him into a building. The building had a sign in front of that read:Happy Camper.He saw a bunch of kids playing in the yard.The social worker led Sly into the reception office. There was a flamingo was waiting there.
"Excuse me, what's your name?"she asked holding up a clipboard.
"Sly Cooper." Sly said quietly.
"Oh..."she said as she struggled to hold back laughter." That is by far, the stupid...did I just say that out loud.I'm sorry, welcome to the Happy Camper. Just go to Ms. Puffin's office." Sly walked slowly towards a glass door." Here goes nothing." he thought as he opened the door. A fat, old bird was waiting for him.
"Who are you?" she asked, angrily.
"I'm Sly Cooper." he said.
"Well, what are you, some kind of squirrel?" she asked."And what're you doing here?Are you gonna sell me cookies? Are you new?"
"What kind of stupid questions were those!" Sly thought."I'll tell her why I'm here.
"First of all, I'm a racoon." Sly started."Second of all, I can't sell you cookies, 'cause it looks like you ate them all."
Ms. Puffin started to rumble with rage, She grabbed Sly by his shirt.
"LOOK, JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE NEW DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN DISRESPECT ME!" she yelled."NOW GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!" She pushed Sly to the floor.
"Nice first impression." he thought as he picked up his three possesions in the reception; the binding of the Thievius Racoonus, his father's cap and cane.The dorms were next to the office so Sly couldn't get lost.He went in the dorm,Sly saw that only one bunk was availible.He took it and put his possesions under the bed.
"Now what do I do?" Sly thought."I could go outside or I could stay in here." A bell suddenly rang.
A elephant peered down to look at Sly from the top bunk."Hello, my name's Joshy and that was the lunch bell."
"Hi Joshy." Sly said." I'm Sly."
"That's a name?" Joshy asked."Oh well, let's go to lunch, I'm starving."
The two went to the lunchroom.After about 5 minutes of waiting in the lunch line, Sly lost track of where Joshy was so he needed somewhere to sit. He noticed a turtle pouting next to the line."What a loser, I bet I'm never going to be frinends with him." Sly thought. He saw a beaver and a squirrel sitting by themselves at a table far in right."They look friendly." Sly thought as walked to their table.
"Hi, my name is Sly." he said to them.
"You think it's cool when people dance together in music videos?" the beaver asked, not even noticing Sly.
"Uh, I think so,yeah." the squirrel responded.
"Forget I ever came." Sly thought as he sat down at another table.Sly quickly finished eating and went outside.
"Hey, where's that fat kid?" Sly thought as he looked around. He noticed some food by the door. "I guess they don't do a very good job cleaning."
Sly walked back to his room and sat down on his bed.
"Don't beat me up, please." A voice from under the bed said quietly.
"What are you doing under the bed?" Sly asked.
"Reading," the voice said.
"Okay, you have fun reading."
"Don't make fun of me for learning quantom physics ten years before I'm supposed to." The voice responded. Sly struggled to hold in laughter. He went to his bed."Oh well, a little nap can't hurt me.." he thought as he dozed off.
He abruptly woke up to Ms. Puffin screaming into the loudspeakers.
"WAKE UP!" She shrieked to the children.
"Uhhhh... What time is it?" Sly groaned.
"5:00 AM." A turtle said to him.
"Hey, you're that one kid that was under my bed. That must have been a long nap." Sly said.
"My name is Bentley." said Bentley, holding his hand out for Sly to shake it.
"My name's Sly." Sly said.
"That's a name? I always considered it an adjective." Bentley responded.
"Everybody keeps sayin' that!" Sly sreamed at him.
"You mean, 'saying' not 'sayin''." Bentley corrected.
"Yeah...I'm going to go outside now," Sly said."You have fun-."
"Yes, I will read more interesting books," Bentley intrupted."Now go have your petty 'fun'."
Sly speed walked out of the dorm."Hope I don't see him again..." Sly thought as he ran outside.The kids were playing outside already even though it was 5:30 A.M. and the sun was rising. Joshy was waiting for Sly.
"What happened to your arms?" Sly asked as he came up to Joshy.
"Oh these?" Joshy said as he looked at his bandaged arms."The lunch lady threw soup at me and I got 3rd degree burns. Forget that though. I want to go on the slides."
"Okay." Sly said as they ran to the slide."You first."
"Your loss, pal." Joshy said as climbed the slide.He slid down fast."That was fun!" Joshy yelled as he sat at the bottom. Suddenly, a baseball came flying out of nowhere, hitting Joshy in the chest knocking up the slide. After he got to the top, he fell down on his back.
"Not so fun now, was it?" a gorilla in the distance said.Sly ran off to a nearby baseball field. No one was playing baseball but the squirrel and beaver were melting ants with a magnifying glass.
"Huh-huh-huh, check it out Frankie, they're like, uh, melt-ing." the beaver said.
"Heh-heh-heh-heh, that's cool.Yeah, yeah." Frankie mumbled."Hey look Bernard. That rat is looking at you." he said as he looked at Sly.
"Shut up Frankie." Bernard fired back." He's like uh, looking at you."
"Yeah." Frankie mumbled.
"Are you guys as stupid as I think you are?" Sly asked.
"Bernard is." Frankie snickered.
"Shut up Frankie!" Bernard yelled." Did I say you could talk?"
"Heh-heh. Uhhh, no."
Sly kicked dirt in their eyes and ran off again."Wow, there's a lot of idiots here." he thought."I better watch myself." Sly walked into the orphanage."Maybe there's a something to do in the library." The library was next to the lunchroom. Sly walked in there were rows of bookcases everywhere. Sly looked at the refrence section."These books are boring. Where are all the comics?" Sly thought as he looked through all the books. "Maybe they have some thieving books here." he thought. Sly saw Bentley coming, carrying a stack of books."Great, it's Benny or whatever his name is." Sly thought as he tried to hide. The same gorilla that knocked out Joshy came up to Bentley.
"Hey Bent-head, where's your books?" the gorilla asked.
"Roger,are you stupid?" Bentley asked." I'm carrying them."
"How 'bout you check this one out for me." Roger said as he placed a refrence book on top of Bentley's stack off books.
"That particular book is not one I would normally choose." Bentley said. Roger glared at him. "But under the circumstances, I will consider your offer."
Bentley struggled to move the books to the check-out desk.
"Let me help," Roger said as he shoved Bentley forwards. Bentley slid towards the checkout.
"That's it. I have to do something about this." Sly thought. He walked up to the nearest bookshelf and tried to shove it on Roger. Luckily, it was flimsy and came crashing downo Roger. Some of the heavy books flew towards the other shelf and and it fell on to another shelf and the other bookshelves in the library soon followed.
"You saved me." Bentley said, dropping all of his books. "Thank you."
"No problem." Sly responded.
"WHO, DID...THIS?" Ms. Puffin screamed from the doorway.Sly heard her voice."I got in enough trouble already." Sly ran through another exit leading outside and Bentley hid under a table. The only kid there was a hippo.
"I SAID WHO DID THIS!" Ms. Puffin repeated as she ran in to the library.
"I guess I did." the hippo said.
THE END