Author's Note

First I do not own the Sly Cooper Franchise or any of it's characters. I do own my own characters though. Also in order to understand the story perfectly you have to play the games or at least read some summaries. By the games I mean all four of them. I will update the chapters monthly. Some of the chapters will be long and some will be short deal with it. If it gets alot of likes I am already planning a sequal! Hope you like it!

Chapter One

-Lost in Egypt-

I was dazed, my back was hot, and I had to squint to see. I sat up and looked around, sand. I see my cane half buried in the sand next to me. I reached out for it but pulled my hand back at the sight of a large beetle crawling around it. I slowly pushed myself onto my feet to get a better view of the area. I was on a large hill of sand in a desert that seemed to go on forever. I turned around and seen a large stone village next to three pyramids and a large statue of a dog. I realized where I was, I was in Ancient Egypt. I bent over to my right and flicked the insect away. I grabbed my cane and pulled it out of the sand. I started down the hill to look around the village.

As I was walking down the hill I was wondering if I still had all my memory so I told myself, "My name is Sly Cooper, I am a master thief from a long line of thieves. My best friends are Bentley, Murray, and my one and only love Carmelita. I was sent here by Le Paradox in a large explosion. I am a raccoon, a blue raccoon with a large tail. I wear a mask and a blue outfit, I also use my father's cane as a weapon and tool. I need to find a way back to my friends."

The village was crawling with markets. I only noticed all the gold these people had, I had an urge to pickpocket someone but there were too many people and guards around. I he walked down into a small back alley and jumped onto a group of barrels and pulled myself onto the roof of a building. I waited there until the sun set over the sand hills and the moon rose over the pyramids. I walked to the edge of the roof and watched as large dogs in armor walked around and lit the torches in the street ways. I realized these were the Pharaoh's guards patrolling the dark and quiet streets. I jumped down onto a cart that was heading in the palace's direction. I crawled to the front and pick pocketed the driver. At that moment someone then screamed, "Thief! Thief! Call the Pharaohs Guards! Thief! "

I jumped off but realized they weren't talking about me. Another raccoon was running through the street with a sack of gold. I decided to run after the thief to see what was going on. I had the feeling it was a Cooper and I wanted to meet him. I ran out of the village as the strange thief ran behind a large rock. When I reached the stone I ran behind it to find that the thief was gone. The rock had an indent of a Cooper cane on the top. I pushed his cane into the slot and turned it. A small entry way opened at the bottom of the stone, I bent down and slid myself in and stood up in the small room as the door closed behind me. I climbed down the latter in front of me and walked into a room full of gold and silver. The thief was standing at a table looking through the sack of gold; he put it down and said, "Why did you follow me? How did you get in here! "

"Oh I'm sorry; my name is Sly, Sly Cooper. I'm kind of lost." I replied quickly.

The thief turned around to look at me. He was a little bit taller than me and had a darker color in his fur. He wore a type of armor that was blue and gold, lined with black stones. He had two small canes that when put together made an Ankh. On his chin he had a beard that was wrapped in a black cloth. He wore a crown like a Pharaoh's. Around his eyes was some black paint to make his eyes seem bigger. He looked confused as he said, "Cooper? I am the only Cooper left in Egypt."

"Well, I am not from here, I am from Paris."

Again he looked confused, "Paris? Where is this Paris?"

"It's in the future, see I am from the future. It's a long and confusing story."

"Tell me the story, and then you can prove you are a Cooper."

"First, tell me your name."

"My name is Slytunkhamen Cooper the Second." Slytunkhamen seemed to be proud of his name as all Coopers are. He looked as if he wanted to believe my story.

"Nice to meet you Slytunkhamen, do you still want to hear the story of how I got here?"

Slytunkhamen seemed excited as he said, "But of course!"

"Ok well in the future I have an enemy named Le Paradox who was going back in time to make himself royalty. He was messing with the Cooper history so my gang and I went back in time to stop his plans. Eventually we went back to the future to put a stop to his plans for good. He made a machine that opened a hole in time and space. The machine backfired on him and started to tear apart his ship. He stole my paraglider and flew away as I was sucked into the hole. I then woke up here in Egypt. I came to the village and seen you. I then followed you, and here we are now." Sly sat there as Slytunkhamen took all this information in.

"Ok, it seems true yet legend. Do you want to return to this Paris?"

"Yes, more than anything! Can you help me somehow?"

"I have an idea but only a true Cooper could pull it off. Are you in?"

I had a smile on my face, I trusted Slytunkhamen. "I'm in."

The next night Slytunkhamen and I were sitting on a rooftop looking at the palace. The large sand colored walls surrounded the palace and the pyramids. I was inspecting the walls when suddenly Slytunkhamen jumped off the building and started to run toward the wall. I realized this was the plan and jumped down and ran after him. Dodging the lights of multiple guards I was quickly making my way down the street. Slytunkhamen was fast, really fast. He pulled out his two small canes and hit multiple guards to get through. I jumped on a cabbage stand to get on the rooftops. The cabbages fell out and scattered across the road, the lizard running the stand screamed, "My cabbages! Not again! It happens everywhere I go!"

I passed the guards down on the street and jumped off the roof. A large guard in armor came running at me. I pulled out my cane and tripped the guard. When I reached the wall Slytunkhamen was already halfway up.

"How do I get up?" I yelled.

"I will help you through once I am up!"

I waited until some guards started to approach me. I jumped up and landed of a pole near a building, I then leaped toward the wall and grabbed a loose brick. The brick started to slip out of the wall but I pushed myself up the wall and grabbed a flag. I started to climb up the red flag. When I got to the pole, I pulled myself up; I was about twelve feet from the edge of the wall, I leaped forward and caught myself with my cane. I pulled myself up and crawled over the edge.

"What are you doing on the ground? We have a pyramid to break into!" yelled Slytunkhamen while laughing.

I stood up and looked at Slytunkhamen, "Really? What's in there that we need?"

"A power source."

I looked at him confused, "A power source; In Egypt?" Sly walked over to the other edge looking at the large pyramids ahead, "Will it get me home?"

"I'm not sure but when people touch it they disappear. That is why we build it a prison."

"A prison, I thought the pyramids were tombs for your pharaohs?"

"They are, but not that one." Slytunkhamen pointed to the largest pyramid and looked at me. "It was made to blend in with the pyramids; it is just a prison hiding in plain sight."

"And we're breaking in how?"

"There is a loose brick up toward the top; it's a two man job to move it. But we need to get in before sunrise."

"Why before sunrise?"

"So the guards don't see us. If they do they will enter at the base of the prison and beat us to the energy source. If that happens you'll never be able to get close enough to touch it."

I was looking at the guards in front of the pyramid entrance and all around it as I asked, "Ok so what's the plan?"

"I stole this recently from the Shadow Master and his crew," he held up a large harpoon looking device with a rope attached to the end, "it is used to connect two buildings together with a rope from long distances. It won't stick in the pyramid but it will stick in the palace wall, since the palace tower is taller than the wall I thought we could glide down to the pyramid."

"Ok but I lost my paraglider, remember I told you that Le Paradox stole it."

He only laughed and looked at me as he said, "I know, but I heard with a large enough cloth you can glide through the air. I thought it was interesting so I made my own." He pulled out wrapped up piece of cloth, it had some strings connected to it with handles at the end. It had a blackish color to blend with the night sky.

"It looks like mine but not as compressed. So when do we start the mission?" I was very eager to possibly get home.

Slytunkhamen handed me the glider and pulled out the harpoon. He spun it around his head and flung it as hard as he could toward the palace tower. It stuck into the tower as soon as it hit the outer surface. Slytunkhamen jumped into the air and wrapped the other end of the rope around a small light tower. He landed on the rope and motioned me toward him.

"From now on we must be silent and move quickly. Now come on." He instantly started running up the rope toward the palace. I realized that Slytunkhamen was one of those people who like to get straight to the point. I jumped onto the rope and started running after him.

As I was running I looked at the Pharaoh's palace which was very large and had small walls around it, at each corner of the wall was a large tower with a fire inside the top to light the sky. The tops of the towers were a light blue color lined with gold. The palace had a single tower taller and wider than any other tower, the top was gold lined with blue stones. The entire palace was a sand color lined with gold and blue stones. Along the tops of the walls were rows of guards with large spears in hand. At the entrance of the palace were two large statues of a dog and a bird, above the door was a winged scarab. When I finished inspecting the palace I looked forward to see I was about five feet from the tower.

Slytunkhamen was pulling out the glider as I jumped onto the roof, "You ready?" He whispered.

I nodded as he handed me the second set of handles, "Wait, have you tested this yet?"

"No, but I guess this is a test." he laughed.

Before I could say anything he leaped toward the pyramids. Suddenly we were gliding through the air faster than my own. I looked down and seen the rolling hill of sand, the guards patrolling the area, and large groups of scorpions and snakes. To my left was the wall we originally climbed; to my right was the smallest of the three pyramids. I looked forward and seen the large sandstone bricks heading in my direction.

Slytunkhamen quickly yelled, "Jump! Now!"

Before I knew it we both jumped onto the cold surface of the pyramid. Slytunkhamen was quickly jumping up the bricks, one by one. I quickly followed until he stopped about seven rows below the top. He pointed at a brick that was darker than the others and said, "This is the block we must pull out together. Once we're in you must jump down and find the heat source and put your hand into it. I don't know what will happen after that, you could go home, disappear, or even die."

The thought that it was only a small chance I would be going home made my stomach ache, but it was the only chance I had of returning home. I grabbed the brick and started to pull, Slytunkhamen joined in. The brick slowly moved until a hole big enough for the both of us was opened. Slytunkhamen moved his head toward the dark hole; I jumped onto the brick and slid in. I started to fall until I hit the floor, I quickly moved as Slytunkhamen came down after me with a torch. We were on a flight of stairs and at the top was a statue of a bird's talon facing upward. It held nothing but seemed like it was supposed to.

"That is the claw of the sky spirit; A god that was hated by everyone and everything because he set fire to the Nile River. For that he was punished and was wiped from all our history and was forced to hold the heat he put upon us for all eternity. The heat has a shape but is only visible when you put light on it, so take this." He handed me the torch and started down the stairs, "Goodbye my fellow Cooper. Hope you get home safely."

"Thank you, for everything. But before I leave, you mentioned something about a Shadow Master? Who is he?"

"He works for the Pharaoh, he has a team of assassins that are never seen unless they want to be seen, they..." Before he could finish three guards busted through the entrance.

"Goodbye Slytunkhamen!" I turned and ran up the stairs toward the claw. I put the torch up the invisible heat source; the heat was greater than anything I have ever felt. When the light hit the energy it started to glow white and gold in the shape of a large crack. I reached forward and looked back at the guards taking my ancestor away. I pushed my hand into the crack, my entire body felt like ice and fire at the same time until everything turned white. I closed my eyes as tight as I could as my body felt like it was freezing in ice and burning in fire. When I opened them all I seen was a field, an empty field. I didn't know where or when I was but I knew it wasn't home.