Thief's Beginning

Frog Legs

Meanwhile

"Lola you have to be more careful, your greed almost got us busted by Carmelita, and this time I don't think your Grandmother could cover us." Penelope said.

"Look okay I'm sorry, but it's my disease you wouldn't understand. Besides I only grabbed them because I thought you two deserved something nice." Lola said while passing Bess the staff and Penelope the blueprint case.

"Well I'm grateful but I'd rather have you back alive and not in jail than have a gift, not that it's not a great gift and I love it." Bess said.

Bess continued driving while I sat in the back looking at our treasures and Penelope was sat on the computer, probably on thief net. I'll never understand the attraction; guess it's a nerd thing.

I was in a daze thinking about anything, although look at some of the treasures reminded me of someone id spent my life trying to forget.

You see back when I was younger I would often venter into a local pawn shop and become fascinated by the stuff inside, I also heard stories from the boys at the back of my class in school talking about things they'd taken from stores and their narrow getaways from the police.

I thought that if those idiots could do it so could I, I was quite the gymnast and my fitness and flexibility helped me move around with ease. Soon the scale of crime became bigger and bigger and I struggled to getaway so smoothly.

Eventually my grandmother found out about my crimes and after I explained she was surprisingly accepting, as it turns out my parents were wanted by the police but that was all I knew and what made me sure that Carmelita had information on my parents disappearance.

Soon after Bess wondered where all my money came from and how I had expensive objects, I told her about my nightly activity and I also said she didn't have to have anything to do with it, but she wanted to support me and help keep me from being arrested.

Once Penelope joined us we became quite the team. But I was still intent on keeping them out of it, so some nights I would go solo and on a few occasions I found myself having to fight for my rewards with another thief, who kept getting in the way.

Our encounters were always dark and silent as our main focus was on our prize, yet one night my rival let me win and I couldn't let it go for days. I didn't run into him/ her for a while. But by our next encounter I was adamant to find out who this person was.

However I was quite shocked when it was revealed to be an old friend, or rather ex-boyfriend of mine Sly Cooper.

We were sat opposite each other eyes wide with shock before spilling everything and explaining what had happened.

As it turned out Sly didn't want to include me on this side of his life to avoid me becoming an accomplice and he broke up with me as he was on the run for a while and needed to keep his distance and stay away till everything died down.

I understood why he did it, and forgave him like the love sick fool I was. Since we were both in the same trade he decided to teach me more skills to help me become more accomplished as a thief and a few times a week we would work together.

I was reunited with Bentley and Murray and everything was great, it was like we were never apart, we went back to being the couple we were. That is until one day he just left again, his only goodbye being the calling card on my window and he disappeared with all our shared treasure.

I was depressed for a while after and the others noticed, I didn't have the heart to tell Penelope or Bess that I'd been thieving with Sly without them and I only had my grandmother to confide in.

I put myself into my school work and help rebuild and tighten our team, teaching them what I had learnt from the Cooper Gang, and eventually telling them why I had ben distant.

Being the friends I didn't deserve they forgave me in an instant and knew why I had done it.

From then on we made a pact to be a great team and stick together until we had decided that it was time to give it up.

I also made a promise to myself that I would prove to myself and maybe even Sly one day that I didn't need him and I would be a legendary thief without him.

However I was snapped out of my thoughts by Penelope's confusion and irritation with her laptop.

"Ugh, Come on you piece of junk, what are you doing?!" she yelled close to throwing the laptop out of the car.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Something's wrong with my laptop it won't bring up my files and new files have been put on it's like I've been hacked." Penelope said.

As she said so a video message appeared on the screen of a mysterious shaded figure, I didn't recognise this person everything was dark and I could only make out his silhouette he looked almost bird like.

He began speaking to us telling us that he had been monitoring our progress for a while and needed our skills to pick up some items for him and also objects that may help us in the future.

At first we were hesitant but then he revealed that he knew information about my family and that the police were with-holding information about their whereabouts, and only he could help me get it.

He informed us that our first stop was what was known as the Welsh triangle but would be difficult to find as it is now no longer existent. Instead we would have to head to Wales and look for a blimp and what appeared to be a village on a boat.

So here we are in Welsh waters approaching what appeared to be our target.

I managed to climb aboard and make it into Raleigh's hideout, using a communicator made by Penelope the mysterious voice was guiding me to where I needed to go.

It was incredibly easy to get there as for some reason the place looked trashed and the security had been taken out, I couldn't work out why and I asked the voice but he refused to give me a straight answer.

I came across the now destroyed looking blimp and took cover as I saw Raleigh being dragged from it by guards looking beaten.

I snuck in the blimp and had to climb and jump on whatever I could to avoid any water pooling around, until I made it to the front of the blimp.

The voice said that I could steal the plans and keep them for myself but I had to retrieve some mechanical parts near the plans.

I picked up the pieces and put them in my bag and made a break for it.

As I stood on top of the blimp I saw Raleigh being taken in by Carmelita, making my escape more difficult but I think I got away unnoticed and we were given our next location. Mesa City.