“Did you hear?” A thug said to his partner.

  “What?” The other asked.

  “This year's new exorcist batch is supposed to be one of the strongest recorded!” He shouted His partner looked him up and down like he was crazy.

  “And where did you hear that from?” He asked side eyeing him.

  “THE DON OF COURSE!” His partner shouted the other thug grabbed him by the mouth and told him.

  “Stop shouting will you!” He said sternly. “They wouldn’t come here anyway, there is no way they know about what is happening here so we shouldn’t be worried.” His partner's eyes darted behind him and to his face, He turned around to see, oak-brown eyes, dark brown skin, and a dark purple hoodie with a fabric wrapped around his mouth so he couldn't see his face. He was smacked across the face by a solid object knocking him off the ground and onto his ass. He could now see him in his entirety. Besides his oak-brown eyes, dark brown skin, and a dark purple hoodie with a fabric that wrapped around his mouth, he was wearing black cargo pants and black boots. His weapon is a three-sanction black staff with a long purple dragon across the staff and chains.

  He swung it smacking it across his partner's face and knocking him to the floor he lay there unconscious and twitching from the force of the attack. He struggled to his feet after seeing his partner knocked unconscious but was unable to because of the intruder's attack. It had left his legs numb so he failed to get up, he gripped the ground and started to crawl away. He could feel the intense gaze of the intruder falling on him with his gaze he heard him mumble.

  “Jasmine, switch.” As he was crawling away he heard the soul of the weapon change, he didn’t dare look back, he kept crawling and tried to scream but his jaw was shattered. As he was crawling away he felt a sharp pain in his calf, his scream was muffled and gargled by his shattered jaw. He had stopped him from crawling, walked before him, and knelt. “Where are you hiding the kids.”

  He tried to talk but was unable to tell him. He grunted stood up and grabbed the weapon that was stuck into his calf. It was a katana, it had a dark purple blade and the mune (the back of the katana) was pitch black, and the tsuba (a sword guard and part of a sword mounting. It is mounted between the sword's blade and grip to protect the user's hands.) is a black dragon. “You’re Worthless,” He told him and swung the blade down across the back of his neck chopping his head off. Blood splattered across the wall and his boots. He let out a sigh and put his finger to his right ear.

  “This is Robert. Come in, " he said as his weapon turned back to human form. A shorter Asian woman, 5'2 “with long dark blue hair, wore a skin-tight suit, a dark blue open-face jacket, ninja slides, and a mask to hide her face. “Come in, anyone there?”

  “FUCK!” Someone shouted.

  “WHAT HAPPENED ARE YOU ALRIGHT!” Robert shouted Jasmine jumped back startled.

  “Yeah, everything is all good Rob.” He responded

  “Yeah, Sully took the bottom floor so he’s in the casino gambling for sure.” Someone else responded

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  “Fuck off Coby!” Sully Shouted

  Jasmine put her finger on her earpiece and scolded “SULLY I SWEAR IF YOU LOSE FOCUS AND WE FAIL THIS MISSION YOUR FATHER WON’T BE THE ONLY PERSON CHEWING YOU OUT!”

  “Hot.” He responded, Robert snickered and Coby started to die laughing “OW! Why’d you hit me?”

  “Thanks, Hannah.” Jasmine said with a sigh.

  “No problem.” She responded her voice very polite.

  “So does anyone have any leads?” Robert asked.

  “Nope, I’m not even in the building,” Coby stated

  “Why not?” Robert asked

  “Well, we all can’t just teleport right in there Robert.” Sully said, “Why can’t you just teleport us to the room they're in any way?”

  “Because my ability can only teleport Jasmine and me, also I can only teleport to a place with low spiritual energy, and the top half of the building had the least amount of it.” Robert explained to them.

  “Ok well, we’ll report back in if there's any info that pops up,” Sully told him.

  “Alright sounds good.” Robert sighed

  “I FIGURED OUT HOW I'M GOING TO GET INSIDE!” Coby shouted, there was a loud explosion outside and a loud crash in the middle of the building. They both let out another loud sigh and turned around to see the other thug beginning to wake up.

  “Jasmine change.” She transformed into a katana and Robert walked over to the thug that had just come to and stabbed the sword through his shoulder into the wall and pinning him there. He was about to let out a scream but Robert slammed his hand onto his mouth, his head slamming on the wall stopping the yell and leaving him discombobulated. “Listen up if you want to keep your life you’ll answer my question.” The thug's eyes were pleading for Robert to stop and he could feel his lip quivering. He took his hand off his mouth and asked “Where are you hiding the kids.”

  “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” He told him, Robert pushed the blade farther into his shoulder he yelped “I DON'T KNOW I SWEAR PLEASE!” Tears ran down his face blood soaked his sleeve, Robert pushed down on top of the katana hilt making the shoulder pop and he let out a scream! “THEY’RE ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR IN THE KITCHEN!” He sobbed “THERES A ENTRANCE TO THE BASEMENT THROUGH THE MEAT LOCKER THAT'S ALL I KNOW PLEASE! I SWEAR I ONLY TOOK THIS JOB BECAUSE I NEED MONEY TO FEED MY DAUGHTER!” Robert pulled the katana out of his shoulder and Jasmine turned back into her human form.

  His hand grabbed onto his shoulder and he fell to the floor riving in pain. “Alright, we got what we need. Let's get going.” He told her he turned his earpiece on “It's on the bottom floor in the kitchen locate the meat locker and there should be a way into what should be a basement.” He informed them

  “Sounds good.” Sully responded then mumbled “Fuck” Under his breath

  A child's voice came on through another earpiece loud explosions could be heard from the background “OK BIG BRO! COBY WILL MEET YOU THERE!”

  He turned off the earpiece and turned to the man who was once riving in pain tears and blood soaked the floor “Please don’t kill me!” He cried Robert walked over and stomped on his head but only hard enough to knock him unconscious.

  “We should kill him, Robert!” Jasmine's tone was deep and stern.

  “Why he didn’t put up any fight and he has no spiritual energy, I was monitoring them both since we entered this place. There was no need to kill him, the other one was the problem if I wanted to be on par with her then I had to be able to use my skills at their peak, including my ability to judge character. Do you understand!” He shouted, she glared at him but after hearing and thinking about what he said she agreed. She hadn’t realized how much this other girl had left an impressive imprint on him.

  “So what's your goal then?” She asked

  “To become the strongest Ninja to ever exist.” Robert said

  She giggled “Well, we’ll need to keep improving from here on out right.” Robert nodded, They botched walked into the shadows, and completely disappeared.