Koenma sat in his office chair, quite comfortable there now that he wasn't so worried about Mystle not waking up. Of course, she had been in the infirmary for two weeks before she had woken up, but he wasn't too worried over that factor. After all, the girl had been badly hurt when she had arrived. The young ruler glanced up from beneath his bangs at the spirit detectives standing in his office. He owed them an explanation on just what was going on with Mystle, but he found himself at a loss of where to start.
Yusuke was tapping his foot on the ground impatiently. "Well? Cough it up already, Koenma. Some of us have better things to do than sit around all day waiting for you!" he snapped.
Kuwabara rolled his eyes. "Yeah right, Urameshi, like you have anything better to do."
"Niether do you, Kuwabara!"
Koenma put up a hand, the other rubbing at his brow as he felt the beginning of a head ache already. "Please, just sit down and I'll attempt to explain. Mystle's story of how she's important is a confusing one," he said, folding his hands together and watching the boys. He noticed that Hiei simply leaned against a wall like he usually would, while Kurama took the seat proffered and crossed his legs. Yusuke and Kuwabara just stood there, looking at him expectantly. He sighed quietly and closed his eyes, still pondering on where to begin.
"Mystle is… a special case, as I'm sure you all have figured out by now. Not by means that you have discovered before. She's not a demon hiding in a human body, or a half breed, nor a 'forbidden' of any sort. She is however, a wolf demon of a pack that has had bad luck for a very very long time. We don't know what is it about her, not even her father knew, but she's managed to change things that were set in stone. We never knew she was going to be born, and before she was, we were more than certain that her pack was going to die because of the bad luck they were having. Then she came along and suddenly her pack started to prosper again. The pups no longer died, and they could find the prey they needed to survive. Those in the pack called her their 'good luck charm'.
"Now, we thought this was just coincidence and let it pass. But then her entire family went missing, due to Rutham, and the pack started to fall apart again. Destiny set on it's correct path once more. We had been keeping an eye on Rutham, due to the amount of demons he had been killing, and then the same day he took Mystle, he disappeared from our radars. Whether she had meant to or not, it seems that her luck had rubbed off on him as well, causing him to elude our forces. He danced away from us for eight years, that's how long it took him to finish killing her family members. He took two years to focus entirely on one person and literally carve them to death.
"We had only caught wind of Rutham by accident, and that was when we sent you, Hiei. For some reason, Mystle's 'luck' was dying out and that let us find her. Now, however, we have to run tests on her, and when she's back on her feet then I can finish telling you just what is going on. For now though, it seems that Mystle is a wolf demon with extra luck that she shares with anyone she meets whether she means to or not."
Kurama had his brows furrowed as he processed the information that Koenma had just given them. "And you have no idea what is causing this… 'luck' of hers?"
The child ruler shook his head. "No. We can't find mention of it anywhere in our archives either," he responded.
The fox incarnate nodded his head and went back to pondering it over.
Kuwabara tipped his head though, beady dark brown eyes examining Koenma closely. "Say now… just what sorta tests are ya gonna run on her?" he questioned.
"Blood tests, DNA, and possibly full body scans to figure out what it is in her that makes her do this."
The teen blinked slowly. "So, every day medical things. Nothing scary or anything that could harm her, right?"
"Of course not, I owe that much to her father at least."
Yusuke frowned, stuffing his hands in his pockets. "So who is this girl's father anyway? He some big hotshot or something that got huge in demon world?"
"You could say that. Mystle's father, actually, was an assistant to the doctor you faced in the Dark Tournament. Needless to say really, he cut out once he realized what the doctor was doing. He was known, however, for his research pertaining to the uncovering of the tape Sensui was after. He found the tape and gave it to Spirit World to protect because he thought it was a danger to everyone."
"So her dad was a doctor, her mum was a stay at home wolf, her siblings were normal, and she had uncontrollable good luck that she shared with everyone except her family," Yusuke summed, looking bored. "She doesn't sound like anything special."
Koenma shook his head slowly. "So much to learn, Yusuke. It doesn't matter, however, if she can't manage to control her luck. Father will more than likely sign off on her execution because of her unknowingly helping Rutham escape us for eight years."
"Hey, wait up a sec, that just ain't right. You can't kill a girl that didn't do anything!" Kuwabara argued, looking ready to fight for that opinion.
Koenma, however, stopped him before he could. "I know, and I agree with you there, Kuwabara. Which is why she needs to be trained, and she'll need every one's help to do that."
"Does she have control over any element?" Kurama asked.
"She has faint control over lightning, but that's it. If trained correctly, it could be nurtured into a much stronger power, but she usually prefers hand to hand when she's fighting, or to use a wooden or metal stave. She finds that using your powers should be reserved for when you absolutely need them, so that you don't waste you're strength," Koenma said.
"So she was taken at nine years old. That was seriously enough time for her to figure out that she preferred hand to hand to everything else?" Yusuke asked incredulously.
Koenma nodded. "Yes. Which is where you will be handy for training her. Her technique is good, but needs work. As for her staff training, Kurama, she'll be looking to you. You can create many weapons with your plants, and that diversity will help her. Kuwabara, she'll need your help with her energy and sensing everything around her. Hiei, you'll need to train her to be faster. If what I feel is going to happen, does, she'll need each of these talents just to live through it."
Most of the boys looked excited to help Mystle, with the exception of Hiei because he never looked excited for anything, and were nodding in agreement. The fire demon looked annoyed at being given the task of "baby sitting" the wolf while she was in training. After all, most people that Koenma sent to be trained by them had only needed to be baby sat.
The ruler of Spirit World looked at Hiei and fixed him with a stern gaze. "Hiei, you will help her, or so help me I will extend your punishment."
The emiko scoffed. "I'm done with my punishment, I served my time and did what you asked," he droned, looking uninterested now.
"True, you did, but I still have plenty of things that haven't been wiped from the booklet yet. How'd you like to be on probation again, Hiei?"
Hiei fell silent, seething at how easily Koenma played them like they were nothing but dolls. He hadn't done anything that hadn't already warranted him as doing anything "bad", though it did depend on your definition, recently. Yet he knew that he did have things on his file that Koenma could access and would use freely, so he chose to shut up and just listen.
Koenma sighed softly and looked at the stacks of paper to the side of his desk. "Alright, now all of you, go home and get some sleep. I have work to do."
No one argued or blinked twice before they were either out the door or simply gone.
Hello peeps, Angel here. So, I plotted out my schedule, and it turns out that Thursday is going to be my update day for this story. The chapters should get longer since I'll have more time to work on them, but it depends with my other two stories. ^^ Alright, so, I'll see you all next Thursday for this story. See ya!
~Angel