6 Chapter 5 Black Rose
Kira (Pov)
"I can't believe you left a calling card before asking me! Don't get me wrong I love it. I just wish we had discussed it, I can't believe I didn't think of that. You were even against the idea of another heist. Now that you have left your 'Rose' we will have to do another one. Not anytime soon of course, but at least one more to tell them you're out there." Nick said with a huge grin on his maw.
1 hour earlier
"Hey Nick, can you get the paper?"
"I already got it, Kira. Let's see if they are reporting last night's escapade."
Most people would think it odd for two 10-year-olds to be reading the news, but we knew better. People say that knowledge is power, but you really don't understand how true that is until the only thing keeping you alive is the knowledge of what's happening around you.
We also paid attention to conspiracy news and other world news in case there were any mentions of mutations such as myself.
Nick was a true prodigy when it came to observing the stock market. After our first robbery, he went online and put half our money into different stocks around the world. Now, in our personal savings, we each have around $5,000 plus the other half which we hid in various hideouts around the city.
"Hey, Kira, listen to this!" Nick almost yelled across the table from me.
"Goldleaf Credit Union was robbed late last night by an unknown assailant. The assailant was able to knock out the security guard on duty silently without arousing suspicion from the other guard on duty.
After talking to Ms. Whitefoot, the security guard, the police have determined that the assailant was able to get into the bank through the vents. However, as of yet, they have not figured out how the assailant was able to get into the bank in the first place."
"When we asked the lead detective on the case, Lieutenant Bogo. This is what he had to say."
"This mammal is decisive, fast, and very strong. Instead of breaking into the vault through typical means. This mammal was able to punch through two feet of concrete as well as five inches of tempered steel. They were able to get away with 10,000 dollars. All of the dye packs, trackers, and smell pouches had been removed. However, we did find a 100 dollar bill laying on the floor in the shape of a rose. Robbers are known to leave behind mementos when they feel overconfident that they will not be caught. This often leads to mistakes being made and eventually we can catch them. We believe this is the second robbery that this individual has made. This mammal is around 4ft in height, has a bushy tail, and always wears a full-body black suit. So we are unable to find any trace of hair fibers. However, we will not rest until the assailant we are dubbing as 'The Black Rose' is caught and brought to justice."
"Kira, why didn't you tell me you left a calling card?!" Nick practically screamed at me.
"I don't know, it just felt kind of right, and I didn't bring it up last night because I wanted to see your face after reading the paper. Totally worth it."
(Back to the present)
"Well, since you've made a name for yourself we will have to at least do another robbery. Not anytime soon of course, maybe next year when they have dropped the case. That will give me plenty of time to case our next bank." Nick said mulling over the new challenge I had brought to us.
Well, he could do that later, right now we had something much more important to do. Go to school. That's right, as much as we had learned on the street's we still needed an education if we were going to make it anywhere in this world.
So Nick and I had created a fake website for a fake orphanage. Even going as far as to create a bank account for it and renting out a building and making all of the paperwork as legit as possible.
We had to do this to get into a private school if we wanted a good education. Not the crappy schools that discriminate against predators, especially foxes.
For the past month, I haven't just been training how to break into a bank. I had been setting up a virtual and physical paper trail of the Nine-Tails Orphanage. Nick, picked the name. He thought it would be fitting, seeing as I had already grown a second tail and he thought I would become the legendary 9 tailed Fox.
As much as I wanted to deny that fact, something in me told me he might be right. So I had not argued. There was one thing we hadn't factored into our plan though.
A week after everything had been finalized and the fake orphanage had been set up. A government official had called informing us that we would be receiving financial support. He would be checking in on us in three months to see how the 'new orphanage' was handling everything.
We had faked everything so well that we had actually created an orphanage that doesn't exist. So yeah, all the documents had been signed by 'Matron Phire,' but we didn't have any orphans or a staff; at least not physically.
But Nick, being the wonderful, amazing mammal that he is. Solved almost all our problems. Since he had been living on the streets, he knew quite a few mammals that needed a place to stay. Most of them were foxes, but there were a few different species of felines and canines as well. We even had a mouse.
One of the older foxes, Juliette, offered to become Matron Phire. Like that a high prestige orphanage that had wonderful reviews and different orphanages around the world became a reality. All because no one would ever actually trust a fox to behave in a real orphanage.
Everyone that lived in the Nine-Tailed Fox knew that it was a fake, but they were from the streets. They had all done whatever they could to survive, now they had a place to live and food to eat. A family that understood them.
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It's been a while I know. It's also taking a different path than I thought it would, but that the whole point of writing isn't it. To create a world with twists and turns that even the author didn't expect. Any comments or reviews would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. Please tell me what you think.
