Black Rose

Ch.2 Joining the Team?

[A\N: Photo above is the Black Rose symbol]

"Hey, Bentley..." The raccoon know as Sly Cooper called from the couch.

"Hmm?" Bentley hummed from his computer.

"What do you know about the Black Rose?" Sly asked.

"I've heard of her, but let me look into it on ThiefNet." He said, typing.

The Black Rose... Sly had heard about her, even more once he had arrived in Paris. There was just something about her that seemed to interest him; maybe it was the fact that she was a master thief like him as well as a secret assassin. He wanted to get to know her. What drives her, makes her tick, everything he could get his hands on, he wanted to know.

"Here she is." Bentley called.

Sly got up and walked over to the turtle, leaning over to see the computer screen. "What do we got?"

"She's a master thief, like you, Sly, but no one seems to know her name or where she came from, except for maybe Carmelita, though she might only know her name since there's not much hard background information on her from what I can see. She's also an assassin and never stays in one place for too long; a few weeks at most. She always wears a silver mask that covers most of her face and has a..." Bentley stopped short.

"A what, Bentley?" Sly raised an eyebrow.

"A cane..."

"What?"

"She uses a cane, but a special type, one exclusive to her family line."

A smirk formed on Sly's lips as he stood up straight, placing a hand on his hip. "Really? Does it say what kind of cane it is?"

"It can separate into two smaller canes, turn into a katana sword, and twin daggers."

"Interesting... Maybe we could use her to help is get the Clockwerk parts back, eh, Bentley?" He nudged the turtle, who rolled his eyes.

"Sly..." Bentley started.

"Does it say anything else about her?"

"Let's see..." He started scanning through the file. "Past experiences with the Klaww Gang, though it was short lived. Other than that, I can't find much else..."

"We've gotta find her because she might know something about the Klaww Gang we don't."

"One thing at a time, Sly. First, let's get the tail feathers; I'm sure the fountain is already open for you by now so get going."

"Roger that." He tipped his hat before grabbing his cane and disappearing out the door.

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Upon reaching the nightclub, the fox stopped dead in her tracks. Right before her eyes was the Cooper Gang van, the fountain having been destroyed. She chuckled lightly before heading around to the back, entering through the ventilation shaft. Once she reached her destination, she climbed down onto a pipe, perching on it as she saw the money-loving lizard and the snarky raccoon, his ringed tail swaying a bit as the two went back and forth in a pointless argument.

Heh... Well the term "ringtail" does suit him well, I'll give him that...

"Dimitri, hand over the tail feathers and we can both walk out of this without getting the police involved. We can--" Sly was cut off by Dimitri.

"So...Raccoonus Doodus, you're totally bumming my house up and bringing me down! So very uncool... Why can't you let the birds and bees be free, bro?" Dimitri said with his terrible grammar.