Hiya! I'm not too sure where I am going (As I start this) with this chapter, So hey let's just wing it! Also thanks DarkraizerGx1 for the review about the POV which I will now mark with a… -Insert Character name here. Type of thing at the top. If a section doesn't have one of these then: A. It is the same character as before. B. I forgot. C. The chapter isn't updated (this refers to the last 6, I will hopefully get around to them). Enjoy!(?)


-Milo

I was angry, or maybe I was just frustrated. I didn't really know how to feel. I felt a bit of regret after going off on Sly. The look on his was face pure sadness like he had regretted everything, but I didn't think I could believe him. It was strange, though. I didn't want to leave yet. If I wanted to leave I probably would've accepted how everything went the first time. At the same time, I was so angry that they tried to leave us and betrayed us that I almost didn't want to be around.

I continued running through the initial area trying to avoid confrontation with the guards that were waking up. I came across a problem when I saw some lights on a thin wire that led to a rock. I looked at it wondering how Sly got across. The others I had seen I simply avoided and scaled a rock instead but this was unavoidable. Staring at the obstacle, I just sighed. I was so angry I nearly forgot about the grapple on my glove.

About five minutes of running around and avoiding drowning and being crushed and such, I caught up to Sly was talking to Bentley through binocucom. I yawned and looked ahead of me to see Sly's ears perk up. I instantly grappled up high and behind a rock before he could see me. I wasn't in the mood to talk and that's all Sly really promised at this point.

Sly cautiously made his way towards an area and I just sat back and watched. I had my energy rifle with me just in case there was a problem. Although, i had little intention of actually using it. Anytime I noticed a guard in a shadow or try to ambush Sly, I simply stunned them. It wasn't very interesting. I was sitting a building across from him until he dropped a wrecking ball off its chain onto some glass. I was only slightly concerned how his cane was able to break through the chains, but I didn't really question much anymore.

One key was down and there were more to go until we got into the actual casino where I assumed the target was. I wasn't sure why these people left the keys laying around in these areas when they could just keep them on them. I suppose villains have to be dramatic somehow. I just kept following him until I noticed he was about to head back.


-Sly

I knew Milo was following me around and providing some ranged support. I just acted like I didn't notice and got as many keys as I could before I got too tired. He seemed to be annoyed from the last time I looked at him. I was really hoping that he wouldn't be too angry anymore since that was about an hour ago. Retracing my steps wasn't too difficult since the guards weren't really paying attention anyways and some were still knocked out.

Getting back to the van took about ten minutes and we were in the dead of night. I looked to see Murray and Naiya talking about something and Bentley was typing away. Milo was still missing, though.

"He's over there," Naiya was speaking to me. I just gave her a confused look before she continued. "You should probably talk to him. He seems upset and you're the only one he seems to trust."

I nodded slowly, but still felt slightly hurt at that comment. I was pretty sure he didn't trust me anymore. I knew what I was doing, but we had decided this in advance when it was just Naiya. We never really had time to factor in how Milo would feel about it. Clearly, he didn't take it well and Naiya didn't seem to remember anything.

I looked over to see a silhouette sitting with their legs hanging over the canyon. I walked over trying to be quiet, but I noticed the ears perk up the second I got close. It was definitely Milo since his left ear was slit. I sat down next to him and hung my legs over the side before lying down. The stars were plentiful tonight.

"Why are you here? You should just go talk to the rest of them." His voice was low and seemed harsh. I couldn't say that I was surprised, it almost seemed like this had happened to him before.

"I'm sorry."

"For what?" The question was bland and serious.

"For trying to leave you behind. We had that planned for Naiya since we just assumed she would be okay with going back to Paris. I guess we were hoping you would be okay with it too."

"I don't care about that."

I just sat up and stared down at him. I didn't know if I could take that answer seriously. He was angry at us, but now, I didn't even know why he was angry. Then it hit me.

"You do. Maybe not specifically just us leaving. But you were angry at me. The fact that you've told me so much, but I was quick to leave. Thats why isn't it?"

He remained silent for a couple of minutes looking straight down into the abyss. I just sat there looking up at the stars and the moon. I heard him trying to muffle a whimper. I went to put my hand on his shoulder, but he hit it away.

"You're just like him." His voice was broken but had an enraged undertone.

"I want to help, honest, we have no intention of leaving you guys behind. I just don't want you to be miserable either. So you need to tell me what I can do."

"I don't want your help. The last time someone helped, I lost my parents." He stood up and ran.


He ran a considerable distance, but I caught him in the end. I grabbed him by the shoulders and pinned him to a rock nearby to stop him from struggling. He just gave up after about three minutes. He broke free once, but it was short-lived. I looked at him, but his stare was cold. His eyes were bloodshot, I could tell that he hadn't really slept after all of the exhaustion.

"When was the last time you slept?"

"About three days ago…"

"Was that after you traveled?"

"No before. When I showed you"

I looked at him, now I was upset. He was running himself to exhaustion and yet he kept pushing himself.

"I am not going to mess with your trust anymore. Please, you need to sleep. I swear we won't leave you guys behind. Besides, Naiya is awake, and she won't let us leave you two." I grinned at him.

I felt him relax, all of the tension was being relieved within his shoulders. He just smiled. He had a genuine smile on his face before closing his eyes.

"I know you won't…"

He was asleep in seconds. I couldn't really blame him, though, he had been awake for three days and from what I understood the exhaustion could be really intense from when he traveled.


-Naiya

My head hurt after what had seemed like years of sleeping. I felt similar to a zombie, being dead, but still somewhat alive and walking around. It was only a matter of time before I started trying to eat people.

Sly left after Milo about forty minutes ago. I noticed that Milo took off in some direction although my natural sense of direction had been thrown off. I looked around for something to do before I saw said raccoons on their way back to the camp. Sly seemed to be holding an unconscious Milo on his back and looked towards me.

There was no real response to this. I just sort of looked at him with a strange look. I couldn't really tell what was going on, but Sly sent me a smirk so I took a general concern for everything. It put me on edge.

"He fell asleep. You know… He told me he hadn't slept in three days." Sly informed me.

I just looked at him and shook my head at him, I didn't realize that he hadn't been sleeping especially since I'd been asleep for so long.

"Anyways, keep an eye on him for me. I am going to get the last few keys and hopefully get to Muggshot before the night is over."

"Ok," I replied.

I didn't even know what to say to him. There was something about time travel that I had remembered. Milo brought me back to a time, but I couldn't remember why or from what. I just looked around the canyon and stepped back into the van to see Bentley talking to Sly again. He was already on his way towards the casino. I watched him go through the same obstacles until he eventually was at the casino. Murray was eating a hotdog that he recently got from a little stand just a ways away along with a key.

I tried not to question things that happened like that. They seemed to get lucky quite frequently and it was almost like they controlled everything. Apart from my superstition, I just kept an eye on the monitor showing Sly before turning around to see Milo sleeping on the ground. If he hadn't slept in three days, I wondered how long he would sleep. Bentley told Murray to put him in the back of the van so we could leave immediately after Sly got the page.

After Murray finally got him into the back of the van, I just sat there in the back ready to leave. Bentley started to talk Sly through a plan to take down Muggshot since simply hitting him wasn't going to work.

"If you can hit all of those mirrors to spin them around, the light radiating off those crystals should heat up the room enough and hopefully burn him."

The planned seemed farfetched, but it had to work for Sly's sake. I looked at the monitor seeing that the plan was working. I rested against the wall of the van and noticed that Milo was still asleep. It had been around three hours since the initial return of him and Sly. I just looked around and closed my eyes. I was out before I knew it.


-Sly

Getting out of Mesa City was a nightmare. It was exciting, but still a bit of a hazard. It wasn't something I was particularly excited for since I knew the cops would be all over this place in seconds. After a few close encounters, I made it back to the van and quickly jumped into the open back doors before closing them behind me. Murray floored it and I sighed leaning against the wall taking the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus out of my backpack.

They were pages on Tennessee Kid Cooper and his adventures along with the instructions on how to perform his rail slide and rail walk techniques. I put them back carefully not wanting to damage to old papers.

I looked up and noticed Naiya was sitting across from me, looking at the floor of the van. She seemed tired and was not fully wake. I didn't really know the effects of the time travel, but she had taken a large hit from it. Apart from the exhaustion, she just looked slightly disappointed and confused.

I turned to see Milo blinking his eyes. He was awake, he only slept for about five hours. I just looked at him. He was listening to something again. Although there was sadness in his eyes. He said something about me reminding him of someone earlier. I needed to talk to him again. I also needed to talk to Naiya about her.

She looked up at me as if she snapped out of her trance. I just looked her in the eyes. She stared straight at me and I returned the stare.

"I should probably tell you about me now huh?"

I just looked at her completely caught off guard.

"Well, we could do it in more of a private setting if you want."

"No, it's fine, Murray and Bentley already know and if Milo knows, it not a huge deal. Besides you and Milo should probably stay in a room together again, you have something you want to talk about. I can tell."

I nodded at her and gave her a gesture to continue and she began.


The story was sad and almost as tragic as mine. She had witnessed her parents, though not directly in front of her, but this was about as close as a person could get. She looked sad, but she was also smiling. It seemed to give her comfort remembering her parents and protector.

Milo was clearly affected, though. He just stared at her with a new emotion. I didn't really know, but it almost seemed to be disappointment. I assumed he wasn't disappointed with the story, It was more like he was disappointed that this happened to her without any warning. With me, there was always a slight fear that it would happen, but for her, it just happened one day, and her protector who had nothing to do with the family also was killed. It was sick.

It took a few days to get far enough away from Mesa City, but we finally reached and stayed in a fairly decent motel (by motel standards) and the sleeping arrangements were fairly similar. I sat down with Milo who seemed really tired, but again, had something important on his mind. His left ear would twitch when he did.

"You need to promise me something."

"What?"

"If I tell you this, you'll know almost everything about my past. I just need to know I can trust you."

I put a hand on his shoulder and grinned at him. He looked up at me.

"You can trust me, Thief's honor,"

I put my other hand my hand and he sighed as we made our way to the room.


Cliffhanger? Meh… Not really. It's not really exciting, I just feel like now that I have an idea for backstory, I should put it in a separate chapter where it's not a mess. *cough cough* this chapter *cough* I like parts of it, but I feel like it could be better. I think it's short, but I don't recall currently. 1:08 A.M. 7/30/16. Also, this game won't be a giant influence in the story honestly. It's just being used as a backdrop for introduction for a hopefully more exciting next story! Thanks for reading. ~Cya!