The Importance of Magic-NYSM Dylan Rhodes/OC

Chapter 3

Las Vegas One Year Later

'Merritt McKinney...Daniel Atlas...Henley Reeves...Harmony Turner...Jack Wilder. Arthur Tressler and the MGM Grand proudly presents...The Five Horsemen!' The announcer says as the five of us walk up onto the special stage that was built specifically for tonight.

"Thank You. Tonight we would like to try something different" Merritt says as we circle around the stage.

"Something that will, well it will set us a bit apart" I continue saying from what Merritt was saying my heart pounding in my chest.

"For our Final Trick we're going to do something never before seen on a Las Vegas stage." Henley says walking it the edge of our stage near the crowd.

"Or any stage for that matter" Jack responds heading straight to the middle of the stage where Danny is.

"Ladies and Gentlemen...tonight we are going to rob a bank" Danny says and the audience goes wild making me grin out thinking that this will be awesome.

"That's a lot of excitement for a crime don't you think?" I say playfully grinning happily thinking about how this all came to be just that one day a year ago in that one apartment building.

*Flashback*

"These plans are awesome!" I say looking over the details with Henley the ginger haired women who I finally found out the name to. Along with Mr. Fedora man's name which was Merritt. "Like this is more than just magic trick we are going to have to do a lot of planning the next year, we have to find this guy from Paris as well as get...Arthur Tressler to back us?" I say more like asking not liking that one part because of what I was seeing that Tressler had done with the files we were given.

"Isn't he that rich insurance company guy?" Jack asks and I look up and nod.

"Yeah he's got like over 100 million dollars or something like that" I tell him, "but if the Eye wants to take him out we'll have to do it if we want to get into the Eye it seems" I say going back to looking at the notes.

"Guys what are these?" I hear Merritt ask from the one corner we hadn't bothered to look at and me and Henley glance at each other and we walk over there only to see a constructed stage like thing made of Legos that shows a like miniature bank underneath it.

"I guess that's why we need money from Tressler...so we can build this stage at MGM" I breathe out in awe.

"Well we have some money at least" I hear Danny say from somewhere else in the apartment only for him to walk in carrying a huge duffle bag and plopping it in front of us then opening it showing that it was filled with bills ranging from $1s to $100s.

"That...that's a lot of money" Jack says his eyes going wide.

"Well I'm in this if you guys want to do this" I say looking at everyone seeing if we have an agreement. "I mean this could just be a huge set up and at the end we end up in jail or something, but I think it will be worth it if we even have a chance to get into the Eye" I say and I see Merritt nod.

"I'm in. just a question. We can't stay here this place is a mess anyone have a place we can plan and stuff?" Merritt asks.

"Not my place" Danny says automatically causing both Henley and myself to raise our eyebrows at that.

"I mean my apartment is just a bit bigger than this place, we can stay there if someone doesn't mind sleeping on an air mattress and someone doesn't mind sleeping on my couch" I offer looking at the group. "Of course Henley can sleep in the spare room and I have a pull out bed from another couch...I just like having more than one couch they are crappy but comfy." I say.