"Ah! Where's my golden goblet and plate!" Xavier shouted one morning. "Simon! You're never around when I need you!"

"Yes sire." Sir Simon said responding to the prince's call.

"I've been robbed!"

"Again?"

"Yes again you fool! And it was by that wretched thief Adrien! Ugh! I will not have that urchin ruin my plan to takeover France."

"Worry not your majesty I will see to it that no one under minds your rule and may I say you've done a much better job at the ruling our country than that of King Thomas."

"Simon how many times have I told you never to mention my brother's name in my presence?!"

"Sorry sire."

"The mere thought of that self righteous goody-goody sickens me! Mother always did like Thomas better than me. Why I'll never know. That aside were you able to bribe the archbishop to help us with our little plan to ensure that my reign remains permanent?"

"Yes Archbishop Damocles agreed to have you crowned king of France by next month."

"Excellent. In one month I shall be king and by the time my brother returns from the war there will be nothing he can do. Now what to do about that rogue Adrien and his urchins?"

"If I may suggest sir perhaps if we were to propose a bounty on his head it might prove very useful."

"Simon you know I don't typically like to give away my gold."

"Well you can say that you'll offer a huge reward to whoever brings him in but you don't have to give it to them."

"You mean lie? That is despicable. I love it."

So Prince Xavier had a bounty placed on Adrien's head, offering a huge reward to anyone who could bring him in and while there were those who considered bringing him in most of them refused to do him any harm mainly because Adrien had been so good them and they new better than to trust Xavier's word. Weeks passed. Adrien and Nino had been robbing wealthy carriages during both day and night. The clever rogue had been successfully stealing gold and jewels while charming some of the nearby young ladies. For example on Sunday Sheriff Theo went to the church to take gold from the poor box. While Archbishop Damocles was willing to hand it over Friar Fu wouldn't stand for it.

"Now see here you evil! Flint-hearted! Greedy-" Fu scolded.

"Now, now Friar don't start lecturing me, you know it never does you any good." Theo said.

"You should be ashamed of yourself! Why you're no better than a common thief! I have half a mind to thrash you!"

"Friar I'll have you know that it's against the law to threaten the sheriff, if you're not careful I could have you thrown in jail."

"If anyone belongs in jail it's you."

"Now Fu we must respect those who are above us." The archbishop warned. "We wouldn't want to end up in behind bars or in a hangman's noose."

"But Archbishop Damocles what he's doing is against both the law of God and the law of King Thomas."

"But Thomas is no longer our ruler, Xavier is and we must abide by his laws."

"Thank you archbishop." Theo said. "At least one of you holy men know your place."

Theo then took the gold and left on his horse. As he rode back an arrow was shot scaring his horse into throwing him off where he was caught in a net and his gold was stolen right out of the satchel on his horse by Adrien who had Nino return it to the church. Later on Tuesday one of Xavier's tax collectors were travelling through the forest with his younger cousin Rose to collect from the blacksmith Ivan who's wife Mylene was very ill and he had been saving up for an operation.

"I beg you please don't take it!" Ivan cried. "I need those coins for my wife's operation! She'll die without it!"

"Sorry sir not my problem." Sir Lavillant said taking the satchel of coins from him and returning to the carriage.

"Cousin you must return those coins." Rose insisted.

"Rose I'm just doing my job."

"But it's not right. That poor woman could die."

"Enough! You're too young to understand how this world works. Driver let's go!"

But the carriage fell down flat from having it's wheels sawed off by someone. Before Sir Lavillant could react the carriage door was opened by Nino who restrained him and tied him up with a rope then began collecting the gold coins he had taken.

"What is the meaning of this?!" The tax collector demanded.

"Begging your pardon sir." Adrien said. "We understand you were only doing your job but alas we cannot allow an ailing woman to die."

He then turned to Rose, seeing the opal ring on her finger he flashed her a smile and took her hand.

"My lady a woman of your beauty has no need for such decorations." He then kissed her hand and slid the ring off her finger making her blush.

"Here are your riches good sir." Adrien tossed the gold coins back to Ivan. "May good health restore your wife."

"God bless you Adrien. Bless you!" Ivan said gratefully.

On Thursday they chose to rob another carriage carrying the Duke Andre Bourgeois and his spoiled daughter Chloe. The girl was up to her ears in jewelry and was spouting haughty commands to the driver and her maid Sabrina who was riding with her and her father.

"Polish harder!" She snapped. "I want my diamond necklace to sparkle!"

"I'm polishing as hard as I can Miss." Sabrina said nervously.

"Father I would like more diamonds and rubies and emeralds too."

"Whatever you want my dear." The duke said.

"I don't think that's a wise idea." Said a voice then an several arrows were fired into the carriage startling the horses to stop.

The driver was then tossed aside and held back by Nino while Adiren casually waltz into the carriage.

"Oh no! Not you again!" Andre said.

"Good day duke and duchess. I do believe you have much more than you need."

With a swipe of his sword he cut off Chloe's vast jeweled necklaces and slid off her various bracelets and rings.

"My jewelry!" Chloe gasped. "Father!"

"Outrageous! The prince will hear of this!" Andre cried angry.

"Complain to him if you wish but it will do you no good. Adieu."

He continued to rob tax collectors, barons, dukes, duchess, lords, and anyone else who took wealth unfairly or had more riches than they knew what to do with. Now it's not like he harmed any of them he would just take their valuables and then leave, he would only restrain them if necessary. However the same couldn't be said for Prince Xavier's guards who not only took an unfair amount of gold but also would beat up the peasants they stole from. So as revenge after they took the gold Adrien would shoot at them in either their arms or their legs with his arrows and strip them of everything.

...

"Give it back!" The boy Marinette had saved a few weeks earlier and had given her brooch to had gone to the market with his two younger sisters to sell the brooch. Theo had spotted him with it and had accused him of stealing it.

"This brooch belongs to the royal family, how did you get it?" Theo demanded.

"I already told you, Maid Marinette gave it to me!" The boy said.

"A likely story! You stole it you little thief!"

"I did not!"

"A thief and a liar! You could go to jail for that!" Theo grabbed the boy and started dragging him off.

"You leave our brother alone!" A seven year old girl with red hair and blue eyes said starting to hit him with little fists.

"He didn't do anything wrong!" A five year old girl with orange hair and purple eyes said doing the same thing.

"Get off of me! You little beasts! I could have you all hanged for this!"

"Wait! That won't be necessary!" Theo looked over to what appeared to be an old man walking over to him.

"Who are you?"

"Oh I'm their grandfather and I've been looking all over for these rotten kids."

"Grandfather?" The boy said confused.

"Play along if you want to live." The old man whispered to the boy before turning back to Theo. "Thank you so much for finding them, now what's all this fuss about?"

"Well old man your grandson stole a brooch from the royal family and then he and the rest of your grandchildren started assaulting me!"

"Oh I apologize Sheriff, you awful children I thought your mother raised you better. Don't you know that you should respect the honorable sheriff? You need not arrest them Sheriff, I'll take them home and give them a good thrashing."

"That's what I like to hear." Theo said pleased. "See you around old man."

"You too Sheriff."

The old man then led the three children into the woods.

"Thank you for saving us sir." The older girl said.

"But who are you ya old coot?" The boy asked.

"Plagg don't be rude!" The girl scolded.

"That's quite alright, allow me to introduce myself." The old man then removed his cloak and fake gray beard to reveal himself to be Adrien.

"Look it's Adrien." The younger girl pointed out.

"Oh he's so handsome, just like in his pictures." The older girl said.

"Sorry for the disguise kids but I'm a wanted man you know so I have to be extra careful."

"My names Plagg, this my twin sister Tikki and our little sister Trixx." The boy said. "We live up road with our Ma, our big sister Pollen, and our baby brother Nooroo."

"Where's your father?"

"Our Pa died in the war so now it's my job as the oldest son to take care of the family."

"I see, well that's a pretty big job. So would you mind telling me what really happened up there with the sheriff?"

"Well Maid Marinette gave me her brooch to sell but that big bully of a sheriff said I stole it and he took it."

"You mean this brooch." Adrien said holding it up.

"Yeah!" Plagg said surprised. "Hey how did you-"

"I'm a pickpocket by trade. Here you are kid and hey it's very noble of you to look after your family like this. Keep up the good work."

"I will, thanks."

Note Duusu and Wayzz are Plagg and Tikki's parents.