On the bottom floor of the casino, two thugs made their way over to a slot machine that had just won a jackpot people had surrounded the machine and were congratulating the man who had won the jackpot, He stood at 6’0, and he wore a brown Irish cap and brown curly hair could be seen coming out the side and back of the hat, with a white button up long sleeve shirt, a dark pink suit vest that covers the chest of the long sleeve shirt, hand dark pink pants, there is a little key chain hanging from his belt loop with a slot machine. There was also a girl standing beside him, she stood at 5’11 with long brown hair wearing navy blue jeans and a grey sweatshirt with a little pink heart on her chest.

  The thugs broke through the crowd and said “Congrats on your win today sir!”

  “Thanks, I'm excited to get my money!” Sully said holding a ticket with a number on it.

  “If you like to follow us, we will get your money.” The other guard said Sully nodded. The four of them started to walk towards the front desk. Two more thugs were waiting at the front for the other two thugs. They leaned in and whispered something into the other guard's ear. One of the thugs turned around. Sully reached into his left pocket and pulled out a pack of what seemed to be cigarettes, took one out, and put it in his mouth. The wrapping was oak brown and the inside was green. He then reached into his other pocket and pulled out a silver Zippo lighter on it with two dice. The one on the left was higher than the right one with four dots on top of the dice the left side had six dots and the right side of the left die had five dots, the dice on the right had three dots on the top, two on the left side of the right die, and one dot on the right side.

  He raised the lighter to his mouth and flicked the flint wheel igniting the lighter, he raised it to his mouth and lit the cigarette.

  “So what's the problem?” Sully asked, blowing smoke out of his nose, it smelt like a skunk had walked into the casino.

  One of the thugs held his nose to not breathe in the smell “Sir could you not smoke in here.” he asked.

  “Why not?” Sully said sucking on the cigarette making the end of it shrivel up “Everyone else is.” She said blowing out the smoke.

  “Because the smell is horrible.” another guard said “But that's not the point, what's your name, sir?”

  “And why would that matter?” Sully said, taking another puff of the cigarette.

  “It's mandatory so we can send the money to your account.” He told him.

  The thug holding his nose shouted “Enough of this shit!” fed up with sully he turned his partner into a Glock 19 and pointed it sideways at Sully’s head “Answer the damn question or I'll blow your brains out!” Sully let out a soft giggle and pushed in the lever on the key chain, the girl who walked with them looked to see what would come up on the machine, the machine flashed three beers and She transformed into a sheathed Shikomizue, which he quickly unsheathed cutting the thugs hand off.

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  He let out a blood-curdling scream “YOU SON OF A BITCH I’LL KILL YOU!” The thug shouted. Sully had a face that sent a chill down his spine, he swung the blade cutting his arm off from the shoulder. The thug hit the ground holding his shoulder. Sully's head turned to another one of the thugs. The blade on his Shikomizue was chipped down to the handle. The thug’s partner who was the Glock 19 turned back into a human form and ran at Sully throwing a punch at him. He blocked the attack with the sheath of the Shikomizue. He then swiftly cut the belly of the thug. His stomach opened up, the cut that was left behind was serrated, and the intestines that resided inside of his stomach were splayed out. HE looked down and held them in his arms he could feel the life draining from his body, a massive amount of blood leaked onto the floor. The casino crowd began to panic and scream as they watched what happened, the thug looked back up to Sully.

  Sully looked into his eyes and he puffed the last of his cigarette, pushed the bud into his eye, and blew the smoke into his face. Sully turned to look at the other two thugs and brandished his blade showing he was ready to take their lives if he had to. Blood soaked his pants, splotches of blood riddled his shirt, and only a few dots of blood had hit his face, his green eyes peered deep into their souls not allowing them to do anything. Sully sheathed his Shikomizue and turned around to look at the panicking crowd, his partner turned back to human form and kept an eye on the thugs.

  Sully looked around, found an intercom, and spoke into it “Everyone please remain calm!” His voice echoed out “My name is Sully Sheil. I am an exorcist. I am here on official business with my partners Robert and Coby, do not be alarmed about what is going on, I politely ask that you all leave the casino and head home to your families.” He stepped away from the intercom, people began to quickly leave after realizing what was going on, and Sully walked back over to Hannah and asked “Ok so fellas let me ask you a question.” He said pulling out another cigarette and lighting it “Where is the meat locker located?” Then calmly blowing smoke out of the mouth

  “It's here on the bottom floor, it is located in the kitchen please spare me.” one of the thugs told him.

  Sully glared at him “We already knew that” He said puffing on the cigarette.

  Hannah chimed in “Where on the first floor would that be?”

  “It's down hallway five and take a right when you hit the intersection” The other thug chimed in.

  “Thank you.” She told him she looked around the casino to see where hallway five was located, once she spotted where she needed to she told Sully “It’s over by the screening of the horse races.” Sully was over getting his money transferred into his bank account, she walked over, grabbed him by the ear, and dragged him out of the casino. They entered the hallway, took the directions the thug had told them, and arrived at the meat lock, Sully rubbed his ear to reduce the pain, and Robert, Jasmine, Coby, Big John, Gerald, Reginald, and Penelope had been waiting. Jasmine was giggling at Sully because being pulled by Hannah, Robert hid his face out of shame, Coby, Peneolpe, Big John, and Reginald were all cackling, while Reginald tried to hide a smile.

  “So we're all here now.” Robert said with a sigh.

  “So let's finish this mission.” Coby said while whipping away a tear.

  “Yeah let’s.” Hannah chimed in.