Chapter Nine.

Carmelita was puffed out. It had been four days since she had been parted from Sly and the gang. She was still in her Gerald King disguise, and she had been walking from Hamburg to London. Unfortunately she had only got as far as Paris and she needed to catch up with Sly and the gang. She needed to arrest them in order to regain her place as Inspector.

She would look around for them. Occasionally she would see Sly or Matt's calling cards in certain places, not to mention the large amount of wanted posters.

Carmelita then walked sadly to her home, not her office. She lay sadly in her bed which had been abandoned for quite a while. She missed her job so much that tears dropped from her eyes. Carmelita picked up a photo of her family which was sitting next to the bed.

There she was, aged around sixteen, holding a certificate saying that she had graduated from high school. On either side of her were her parents who, even though they wore masks on their faces, each had one hand on her shoulder, smiling. And on her dad's other side were…

"Matt Tember?" Carmelita gasped. That was right. Matt Tember. Him and his older brother who had been killed by the Threatening Three. She had then realized her mistake. She hadn't been a good sister. If only she had been more supportive, her older brother would be still alive… And what would her parents have thought of that?

Carmelita gasped again. Her parents! They were in China, the exact same location as the third and final member of the Threatening Three! And if she didn't get there soon, her parents would be dead, and Matt, and Sly, and the rest!

She hastily packed her things and leapt out into the streets of Paris, heading for Paris Airport.