A Human in a Thief's World

by Ruby-Spears

On a dark and stormy night in New Jersey, a 15 year old human named Julius Kore and his brother start to play The Sly Collection on the PS3. Suddenly, Julius and his brother Tommy find themselves in the world of Sly Cooper, both waking up at the start of the second Sly Cooper game. With material inspired from the story: A Human Among Animal Thieves by jumbochamploonrules.

43. Savannah uses a song to scare Neyla

Bentley P.O.V.

The war between Neyla and the Contessa has put the castle on high alert. To get at the Clockwerk eyes, we'll need to subtly manipulate this conflict to our advantage. Here's the plan. Murray, sneak into the castle and kidnap the head of security. I want to ask him a few questions. Meanwhile, Sly and I are going to get a little paranormal. I'll slip into the crypts beneath the castle and put together a bad mojo bomb. It should be enough to destroy the mind shuffler. Sly and Savannah, you'll capture a few local ghosts and drop them into Neyla's HQ. Hopefully, the near-death experience will inspire her to purchase more mercenary firepower. We've all got our assignments, good luck.

Savannah Greenwood P.O.V.

When I heard that I was teaming up with Sly Cooper to capture ghosts with my camera, I thought that Bentley was either insane or on drugs. There is no way in hell that I'm capturing ghosts using a camera. It's already bad enought that ghosts don't exist in the real or video game world. I don't need to be like Danny Phantom, a guy who worships ghosts to take a picture of said ghosts.

"Alright, Sly and Savannah, there's your new objective. Sneak inside and smash the coffin of the Evil Wolf Priestess." the turtle said to me.

"Smash a coffin? Are you kidding me?" I asked Bentley.

"I'm not kidding you, Savvanah. You and Sly are going to smash a coffin of an evil Wolf Priestess." Bentley said to me. I couldn't believe what Bentley said. He was seriously suggesting that me and an anthropomorphic raccoon video game character to smash the coffin of a which. I was surprised.

"Sounds pretty harsh. Does the old girl really deserve that sort of treatment?" Sly had the balls to ask Bentley.

"Weren't you listening? She was an Evil Wolf Priestess. Once you smash the coffin it'll free all the ghosts trapped in there with her." Bentley said to Sly.

"Why are we capturing ghosts?" I asked Bentley.

"We need to use the ghosts to scare Neyla so that way we can take advantage of the conflict between her and the Contessa." Bentely said to me.

"I seriously doubt she would be spooked out by ghosts." I said. "You know what will really scare Neyla?"

"What?" Sly and Bentley asked in unison.

"Have you ever heard of the song Tiptoe Through the Tulips by Tiny Tim?" I asked Sly and Bentley.

"Who's Tiny Tim?" Sly asked.

"Tiny Tim was a folk singer who used to sing in an eerie high pitched falsetto voice." I said. "One of Tiny Tim's most famous songs is Tiptoe Through the Tulips."

"So you're planning on using a song to scare off Neyla?" Bentley questioned.

"Yeah. It's a much better idea than using ghosts to scare off Neyla." I suggested.

"Okay. Go with it." Bentley said.

I knew that the Contessa has a prototype voice modulation device. I know this because of repeated plays of Sly 2 episode 5. I knew exactly where the voice modulation device was located at. All I had to do was break into the castle and steal the voice modulation device and attach it to the roof of Neyla's headquarters. I pick pocketed a few guards to get the keys that would allow access to the castle in which the wire tap was located. I located the wire tap. I grabbed the wire tap. I needed to grab the voice modulator next. The voice modulator was located near the front door of the Contessa's castle. I tricked the guards from walking away from the voice modulator by beat boxing.

I snuck past the guards and stole the voice modulator. I then went back to where Neyla's headquarters were. I installed the wiretap into the voice modulator and hooked through my Bluetooth speaker, which was connected to my smartphone. I went on Spotify and searched up Tiptoe Through the Tulips by Tiny Tim. Once I found the song I was looking for, I connected the wire from the Bluetooth speaker down the chimney.

I pressed play. The song, Tiptoe Through the Tulips was playing in the loudspeaker. Tiny Tim's signature shrill, high pitched singing voice wafted through Neyla's headquarters. A few seconds later, I saw Neyla storm outside. She had a look of terror on her face. I damned near laughed. She ran away. I quickly stopped the song and quickly returned the voice modulator and wiretap back in their places before heading back to the safehouse.