Hiya! So I have been writing this and the last chapter felt like it took way too long to come out (even though in retrospect a chapter every 2/3 days is fast by most people's standards). I have been fairly busy and to be honest Raleigh's section isn't the most interesting thing. Also, I have been getting back into drawing, speedrunning, and piano so along with writing I am pretty busy. Also homework. That's all I have to say. Cya! (For reference and if anyone cares… this is the 33rd page :3)


There was the sound of rain all around me and the occasional crack of thunder and lighting kept me on my toes. I stared out the front window seeing the rain barraging the van. I stared at the door to the van before thinking of Milo, who was likely still sleeping in the rain, and how he was doing. However, my thoughts were quickly scattered by a foot that had kicked my arm. I swung my head around at the culprit.

Sly was just sleeping there and occasionally twitching (and apparently kicking) from whatever dream it was he was having. I shook my head with a smirk seeing the raccoon not awake and pestering me. I slipped out from under one of his legs that had managed to cross over mine before opening the door to the van and stepping outside.

The rain was still coming down, although it was coming down much harder today. A bolt of lightning struck about twenty yards in front of me igniting the tree. I stared at it groggily before shrugging and walking out and pacing around. It took about fifteen minutes for me to really realize what was happening and I turned around in a panic. I ran towards the back of the van to see a few flaming branches fall.

"Milo! Move!" I yelled out.

The raccoons eyes shot open and he went to move. It was too late though the branches had hit Milo and he seemed as if he was in excruciating pain noticing that his leg was burned and bleeding. I stared at him with tears in my eyes as I tried to move the branches off of him.

"Back up…" Milo whispered to me.

"What?"

"MOVE!" I jumped back shocked at the anger that was in his voice.

He grabbed a tiny knob that was on his glove before twisting it back. The glove sparked and Milo quickly disappeared in a bright blue light as more branches fell. Sly burst out of the Van and rushed to me. At this point, I was on the ground crying at the sight of someone seemingly dying and then disappearing.

"What happened? Where's Milo?" He asked me.

Sly's eyes widened at the sight of the dying flames and branches that were where Milo had slept. He rushed over to the branches and tried to look for Milo, but he wasn't there.

"That was a close one, eh?" I heard a familiar voice from behind and I turned around to see Milo there smiling, but he was clearly exhausted.


~That was cutting it pretty close huh?

I was stuck with my thoughts as I reappeared in the front of the van and moved forwards. I still had signs of damage from the branches, but most of it was fixed. I saw Sly frantically searching through the branches and Naiya crying on the ground.

~I forgot they don't know anything about me huh?

"That was a close one, eh?" I did my best to make a convincing smile. I walked forwards a few steps to comfort Naiya before I collapsed to the ground. I started coughing and couldn't stop. I realized that I was coughing up blood as the rain washed it away.

"How?" was the only thing Naiya had said to me as I continued to cough.

"I'll... tell you," I shuddered from how much blood I was coughing up, "later…" I finally managed to finish the sentence as Sly helped me towards the van. Naiya dashed up and hugged me out of Sly's grip. I didn't know how to feel although I could feel myself starting to blush. Sly continued to help me along as Naiya finally let go.

~A bit too close for me...

I sat on the edge slightly swinging my feet until I had another cough attack. Sly seemed to be worrying the whole time as did the rest of the group. Bentley finally spoke after I had calmed down and was able to explain a plan to Sly. I didn't really pick it up, though, I could tell I was about to pass out. After another ten minutes of silence, I fell asleep.


I looked towards Sly who was running much farther ahead of me. Every now and then we would stop but he told me I had to get a key from a chest that was underwater. I stared at him with a confused look as he motioned for me to jump in some sort of sub. I hopped in it and looked back up as he added,

"Don't let the crabs take any of the chests."

I stared at him trying to figure out if he was being serious or not. After about a minute I closed the hatch and submerged to a little grotto filled with chests. I broked about thirty of them before I finally found the key, the crabs were being pests, but I had managed to get through it and get the key to Sly who had returned to the location with two keys.


I sniffed the air and noticed the smell of burnt fur. I looked at his hat that was slightly burned and I chuckled at him.

"Hey, don't laugh… there was a lot of fire in there!" he defended, but I just waved him off.

He shook his head and unlocked a bunch of locks that had somehow managed to lock a cannon. Although I wasn't quite sure how locks on a railing affected the cannon, but I didn't question it. Sly gave me a salute as he jumped into the cannon and was shot into Raleigh's airship.

I walked back to the van to see Bentley and Murray frantically preparing everything. I stood next to Milo who was also seemingly confused. He just stood there with his hood off which surprised me. I looked towards him and noticed that it was burned and there was very little hood left. I was about to ask him about what happened earlier, but there was something that prevented me from asking. I just looked at Bentley who stared at us and said,

"Get in the van! We need to be ready to go once Sly gets back!" He was almost yelling completely panicked.

We hopped into the back of the van and got onto the ferry and waiting for Sly to come back. There were sirens wailing everywhere and the sound was getting slightly annoying when I saw a figure appearing in the distance running towards us.


There was Sly running at us as the ferry started to move with us and Sly ran up to the dock and jumped towards the boat.

~He won't make it.

I ran up to the edge of the ferry and quickly reached out to grab his cane, which he had stuck out, and pulled him up. Murray and Naiya had assisted me with pulling Sly onto the boat. He seemed slightly terrified at what had just happened, but he ended up laughing and seemed exhilarated.

"What a rush!" He yelled out.

I just smiled and shook my head at the Raccoon who had jumped up and ran over to Bentley. I looked ahead and noticed the cops frantically searching the island for the thief and chuckled slightly.

"What's so funny?"

I whipped my head around to see Sly with a giant grin looking at me. I turned back around and just looked back at the island and shook my head. Sly looked at me and my hood that had been burned off. Unfortunately not everything can be salvaged. He just put an around my shoulder before speaking.

"You can't hide your emotions without your hood you know?"

I just hummed slightly to myself for a couple seconds before responding,

"Why would I bother hiding them, I already know I am going to have to explain everything to you guys. Although, currently there is no one alive who knows my secret and I intended to keep it that way. But hey! You guys can be the exception."

I gave a wicked grin back to Sly who was put off balance by how much I had just spoke to him in front of everyone. I just looked back at the water as we made our way to the mainland.


Back in the van and on the road. It felt satisfying. At least it was compared to the sub I had to ride in back at Raleigh's hideout. I was so tired after running around with Sly and hiding from guards that got too close. That was strange to me and I didn't know how to feel about hiding from guards when I was so used to being a part of the ones guarding things.

The van hit a bump setting me flying into Sly who was sitting across from me. I looked up at him and he smirked at me. The smirk made me go off again, I went to hit him, but like last time, he caught my hand and just shook his head.

"Ya know, you don't have to throw yourself at me like that," He grinned at me before I immediately pulled away from him slightly annoyed and just sat against the wall of the van with my arms crossed.

"Like I would willingly throw myself at you raccoon," I pointed a finger at him, "I wasn't going to turn you into the authorities, but now I might have too."

Sly just rolled his eyes before looking towards Milo who was asleep in the corner for what had been about four hours. I couldn't understand how he could sleep in this deathtrap.

"We are almost at the place we will be staying," Bentley spoke blandly from the front seat and I just blew a piece of hair out of my face looking back at Sly. He just sat there studying a page of something. I recalled reading something about there being a book called the Thievius Raccoonus, which had been passed through the Cooper family for a long time.

~Is that why he is doing this, to retrieve all of the pages. Or is it just to restore his family's honor.

I looked at the cluster of the pages he held in his hand studying them closely. There was something about how intensely he studied that had interested me, but I just got lost in my thoughts again.


I woke up after what had seemed like forever. We had just arrived at our destination. It was another motel, although this one seemed to be more together than the last one. I stretched my legs when I got out of the van, I turned around to see Sly getting out of the van before I jumped away from him keeping my distance from him. I didn't know if he trusted me or not, but I didn't want him to hold me down and stop me from moving. It was irritating, to say the least…

Sly looked around for me to see I was standing about ten yards away from him. He looked at me with a confused look as he took a step towards me. I took a few steps back not letting him come close to me. He just looked down causing his hat to cover his eyes and he smirked. I backed up one more step before looking over my shoulder to see I was near the woods. Sly began to walk at me faster than before as I turned around and ran into the woods.

I didn't know why I ran into the woods. I just quickly climbed a tree and ran through the thickly layered branches seeing Sly below me running looking for me. I stayed along the edge of the forest not wanting to get lost deep in the forest. That was all I needed right now. I looked around the forest floor remaining in the trees watching for Sly.

"What are you doing?"

I yelped and fell off the branch I was on plummeting towards the ground. Sly had managed to catch me with his cane and pull me back up the tree. I sighed.

"I didn't want you to grab hold of me," I replied coolly, I looked back at him to see that the worry in his eyes disappeared.

"I wasn't going to hold you down this time," He laughed as I stared down and jumped back into the clearing.

"Since that's over, Milo you are going to be with Murray and I this time. We want to know about you too." I gave him an uninterested shrug as I went to follow him before a hand grabbed my shoulder. I swung around irritated thinking it was Sly's idea of a joke. I was surprised to see that Naiya had grabbed my shoulder.

"No, I will go with you guys again, I never actually told you anything about me last time. I feel I should tell you first because Sly probably won't understand."

Sly scoffed at this statement before he grabbed me and brought me to the room.


I closed the door behind me as Murray and Bentley both sat down. Murray began coloring… again. I didn't come here to tell him my story, It was Bentley whom I thought should hear it. The turtle gave me his full attention before making a hand motion that told me to begin. I just sighed at and looked at ceiling laying back onto the bed.

"Well I'll just start at the beginning I guess," I began, "I wasn't really like every other girl… I didn't like things like fashion or shopping or any of the stereotypical things like that. I was fairly interested in the law."

Bentley chuckled at this comment and its irony.

"I didn't really know which side though. I thought both were interesting and my parents had always told me to stay on the good side, so for a while I did. I had done some minor types of crime like stealing, but I was also young and it was usually like a granola bar from a convenience store. Although I always got a rush from it."

I stared at the turtle who was soaking the conversation. I took a slight break from the story before continuing a few minutes later. Beginning with a sigh once again.

"I didn't know my parents very long… Once I turned nine my parents were killed one night a gang in the middle of the town. I didn't grow up in a very safe place since there was a mob boss and my parents were against him at all points. I was traumatized. I was with a babysitter when they were killed walking home after their dinner."

I could feel tears building up in my eyes again before wiping them away and taking a deep breath and started to conclude.

"I was so angry and sad that I knew I had to join law enforcement to get revenge. I haven't yet and I don't intend to get it anymore since I realize I could never do it on my own. So I was left alone on the streets. I got out of the town with the help of that babysitter actually. She knew it wouldn't be safe for me there. I remember running out of the town with her, but she got grabbed and was being dragged away. He last words to me were 'Run Naiya… You will always have us by your side'..."

I stopped the story there. I was falling apart. There were tears everywhere and I just got into the bed I claimed and began to sleep, whimpering occasionally. Bentley had been pondering something, but I had fallen asleep before he had even moved or reacted.


Okay, This literally took forever to release. I actually had my birthday pass so I took those two days off then started writing this chapter. I mean it seems longer than usual, but it might be around the same length. Anyways I actually ordered Sly 2 and 3 and I am really excited to play them and get a more real understanding of them rather than descriptions and playthroughs. Also, 3 arrived first so my life is a joke. So I will be busy with that for a while I'd imagine. Also, I have homework over the summer (lots) and I have to do a bit of writing for this Friday. So I might release the next chapter late. You have been warned. Anyways, Cya!