Disclaimer: I do not own Sly Cooper or any other character from the Sly Cooper games. The only characters I own are Cedric, Hugo, and any other OCs I throw in to the mix. Kajiyama is the name of a real leader of the yakuza and as such, I take no credit for him.
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"Thieves are Born, not Made"
When Sly got back to the safe house, Cedric was typing furiously on a laptop. Looking to see what he was doing, Sly bent closer to the screen.
"It's all the information we have on Kajiyama. Bentley's trying to hack his computer now as we speak and get some more info."
"What do you mean trying?" asked Bentley, "I finished a few minutes ago. Kajiyama's hideout is well guarded by his yakuza guards. However, there are several air vents that would allow access to his base. Thanks to the grapplecam Sly slipped Penelope, I know the approximate times of the rounds done by the local guards. This place is a fortress, inside and out. Unfortunately, Kajiyama somehow figured out the had a break in and beefed up his security. Also, it seems Kajiyama has had contact with Wainwright."
"This is what we were coming to Japan for, besides getting Bentley and Penelope back on the team. No one knows where Wainwright is except for his top contacts who each have a portion of the location. Also, Kajiyama should point us towards the next contact of Wainwright's," cut in Cedric.
"Exactly. Kajiyama has a special laptop I haven't been able to hack into. Mainly, we're trying to get this so that we can find the next target, while saving Penelope. Cedric, Hugo, and Sly will each enter through a different air vent. Hugo has offered to create a distraction while Sly finds Penelope and Cedric finds the laptop."
"I never had you figured for the distraction type Hugo," said Sly.
"It sounded like the most fun of all the jobs," Hugo shrugged.
"And I'm just going to stay here?" asked Carmelita.
"Unless you'd like to help," answered Cedric.
"This Kajiyama is part of a crime syndicate, participates in illegal activities and kidnaped
one of Sly's friends, Of course I want to help take him down," she answered curtly.
"Fine. You're with Sly," decided Cedric, "We still have a few hours before the heist, so Sly could teach you some of the basics into thievery."
"Would you do that Sly?" asked Carmelita.
"It would be my pleasure," answered Sly smiling.
"Fine," said Bentley, "Just be sure to have the basics down before we enter the base."
Sly and Carmelita went into their room to practice. First, Sly moved the bed farther into the room. Then he had Carmelita crawl quietly under the bed, practicing until she could get from one side to the other without making a sound. Then, by "borrowing" a rope, he taught her the basics of climbing up. Then he tied the rope between two immoveable objects and asked her to go across it.
"You have to be kidding me," she said. That rope is too thin I'll fall right off.
Sly nimbly jumped up and landed on top of the rope and began to run across the rope back and forth. He jumped into the air and landed on it again. The he jumped off and landed on the floor next to Carmelita. Oh my god! How can he do that? thought Carmelita. She was suddenly struck by the idea that he could often had escaped her by simply by running across a rope like this.
"It's actually not that hard," said Sly, "All you have to do is find your center of balance and remain balanced while running. Also, when you stop, grab onto the rope to improve your balance. You can use the same technique when running across pipes and telephone wires."
After several tries, Carmelita had only managed to stay on for about a minute and fell off every time she moved. Desperate, Sly thought of the one thing that might help her. Reaching into his pouch, he thought Please let this be the right thing to do.
"Carmelita, stop. Come here, I have something that might help you," he said apprehensively.
"What Ringtail?" asked Carmelita crossly. She was annoyed that she couldn't do the rail walk. She had always been very good at sports and used to always be the best in her class. She couldn't understand why she couldn't do the move but Sly could.
Sly handed Carmelita the Thievius Racoonus.
"This might help," said Sly after he turned to the page about the rail walk, "Try it. It can't hurt to try reading it."
Carmelita read the page and felt like the real method of the rail walk was being downloaded into her head. Every word she read gave her more uses and techniques for using this one move. The page described how one should focus solely on the rope and walk on it as though on a flat surface. It described how to keep one's balance while running across. Carmelita jumped up onto the rope and, holding the book in one hand, she crossed the rope twice. Speeding up, she ran across the rope then tried some jumps off and onto the rope. Throughout all this, Sly was watching Carmelita in amazement. She had mastered the rail walk. She wasn't as goos as he was, but he'd had a lot of practice. He remembered something his father told him once.
"A thief is born, not made," came his father's voice back to him.