Okay, so after last time's emotional chapter, this is gonna be a more light-hearted one. If you couldn't tell from the title, all it is, is Duncan learning some of the thief skills from Sly, Bentley, and Murray along with messing with them a bit. Also, some time has passed from the first chapter, partly because I can't think of any other filler after to put between this chapter and next one.

Sly couldn't help but smile at his son. Duncan had the biggest smile(revealing a few teeth that had fallen out) on his face as he looked over the obstacle course Sly had laid out for him. It had been two years since they took Duncan in(He's seven) and he was finally old enough to start learning how to steal, much to his joy. Duncan's outfit was now a mirror of Sly's, complete with mask and hat. Duncan had made a bit of a fuss over it, but Sly said that when he was older, he could make it whatever he wanted. The only real difference was Duncan was wearing pants and that the hook on the Cooper Cane he was holding was silver inside of gold and due to Duncan being too small to hold it at full lenght, Bentley had made it some that that cane was retractable and Duncan could change the size at will. Sly had let Duncan pick the color so that they wouldn't be the exact same.

"Okay, so what do I do?" Duncan asked. Sly pointed at a starting mark.

"You are gonna to watch me do every obstacle and try your best to repeat it," Sly explained to him. "After you think you know what you are doing, you are going to run the whole thing by yourself,"

"Got it!" Duncan said. With that, Sly was off. Truth be told, Sly only knew the bare bones of what a Cooper thief could do(again, Thievius Raccoonus theft), but he sure wasn't planning to tell Duncan that. The first obstacle was just jumping over some ledges, which got taller with every one. Duncan was able to jump over them, although he did stumble a bit on the last one. The second obstacle was a bit harder. Dodging lasers, which thankfully, were yellow to start. Duncan was quick to pick up on the fact that touching the laser was a very bad idea. He was able to cross with ease, but Sly stopped him and pointed to an alarm.

"If you did trip the lasers, the alarm would go off and the lasers would turn red and they would hurt if you touched them," Sly explained, causing Duncan to nod.

"Don't touch lasers, got it," Duncan said before smashing the alarm.

"Seems like you learn fast!" Sly marveled before heading to the next obstacle, a narrow walkway attached to a wall. Sly inched along the wall, holding his cane to his chest. Duncan repeated the action, only to fall off onto some pillows on the floor.

"I'm okay!" Duncan yelled out as he climbed up the ladder back to the obstacle. Sly laughed, he knew exactly what Duncan did wrong.

"Don't look or lean forward on that, just keep looking towards the finish," Sly told him. Duncan nodded and managed to clear it.

"I did it!" Duncan cheered.

"Well done," Sly said before leading Duncan over to a final area. There were thirty bottles lying around. "These are called Clue Bottles. If you pick up all of them, you will get a code to open a safe," Sly then pointed at a safe on the side. "Open that, and you can be done for the day,"

"Got it!" Duncan cheered. He quickly began smashing the bottles. The main thing Sly was looking at was to see if Duncan could make the jumps and make it across the walkway. Sure enough, the kid was able to pull it off perfectly. After getting the last Clue Bottle, Duncan pieced together the clues and opened the safe. Inside was a still warm pizza.

"Yes!" Duncan cheered as he grabbed the box the pizza was inside. He then gave Sly a hug. "Thanks dad!" As Duncan raced off to his room, he didn't notice Sly's massive grin.

Three days later

"Hey! Where's my ice cream?!" Murray yelled out. The special lock box/freezer combo Murray slashed his ice cream in had been broken into.

"Can you please be quiet!? My favorite show is on!" Duncan snapped, a tub of ice cream in his hand. As soon as Murray, Bentley and Sly began staring at him, Duncan realized he still had Murray's ice cream in his hand. With a groan, he handed it back along with the key he had.

"Hey, how did you get the key?" Sly asked.

"Yeah, normally, Murray never takes it off his person," Bentley added. Duncan smirked.

"Well…."

Flashback

"Um, Duncan?" Murray called into the training area.

"Yeah?" Duncan asked as he climbed back down a pole Sly had set up. Climbing was something he had been struggling with and Duncan really wanted to get good at it.

"Sly said it's time to come in, it's gonna rain later," Murray explained.

"Fine," Duncan moaned as he followed Murray back inside. However, Duncan had been wanting to try pickpocketing for a while and, when he was sure Murray wasn't paying attention, grabbed the key to his ice cream safe from his pocket with his cane.

"Okay, you really are a fast learner," Sly was forced to admit. It reminded him of his younger self. Sly had always wondered why thief training didn't start until you were seven, seeing as you were supposed to hand down the book when the kid was between eight to ten. But eh.

"Told ya, also, how come Uncle Murray doesn't have to share with the rest of us?" Duncan asked.

"Because then there would be none left for the rest of us," Bentley pointed out.

"Good point," Duncan admitted.

"On another topic, I found out where some files on the members of the Fiendish Five are!" Bentley announced. Duncan got excited. He knew Sly had lost his family to the Fiendish Five, even if it took him awhile to understand….and about three hours to calm down from his hysterical crying. Plus, Duncan could finally make an attempt at stealing.

"Where are they?" Duncan asked.

"In Carmelita's office," Bentley explained. Duncan felt his heart sink. He really didn't like having to steal from his mother, but he knew that they needed the files. As such, he resigned himself to letting Sly steal them.

Duncan just can't win in this world, can he? Trust me, next chapter will be mostly Duncan with his mother and then, time to begin the first game!