Tension was high in the Spirit World and its toddler sized ruler was pacing anxiously back and forth. It was obvious that something serious was about to happen and he could feel the three pairs of eyes all watching him.
"Where is that boy….?" He mused as he paced back and forth across the room, his arms behind his back and his eyes looking down towards the sandybrown carpet that covered the floors of his office. He began to feel less pressured as he felt one set of the eyes look away from him.
It was Kurama, the red haired fox demon. He must have sensed his uneasiness and out of respect or perhaps just tired of watching him wear a hole in the floor from his persistent pacing. Regardless of his reason, it seemed to provide the little demi-god with a tiny bit of relief now that one less set of eyes was glaring him down. The remaining two pairs soon began to wander off him as well, The three of them had all been brought here around the same time by Botan, since they were all in the same area. They had been visiting Yukina at Genkai's temple, when the bubbly ferry girl had arrived to inform them that they were needed in the spirit world for an important upcoming mission. They had already been there waiting for about thirty minutes or so and that only left for their fearless leader…Yusuke to arrive. Even though they were all used to the delinquents constant tardiness, the curiosity and sense of urgency that was implied about this mission was starting to get the best of all of them.
"Sorry I'm late guys," the unmistakable voice of Yusuke bellowed through the chamber of Koemma's office as he slammed open the large stone doors to his office.
"It's about time Urameshi! The suspense is killing me!" exclaimed Kuwabara as he turned to the other boy as he entered. Before anything else could be really said, Koemma had stopped his pacing and turned to face the four detectives.
"Now that everyone is here, I have a new mission for you and this one is quite urgent." He sat down at his desk before continuing.
"Aren't all of your missions supposedly urgent…." Hiei sarcastically stated from his seat upon a nearby windowsill. His eyes were closed and his arms rested behind his head.
"Yeah, is daddy threatening to throw you over his knees and spank you again….sounds real urgent to me..." Yusuke threw in his two-cents for good measure, which made the other three chuckle a bit, much to the dismay of Koemma.
"No, actually for your information, my father was the one that sent you this mission. As I am sure that you all have noticed that things have been rather slow around here lately, and well up until recently there hasn't been any real trouble within the Makai." Pressing one of the buttons on his rather too large for a toddler desk, he quickly summoned George, one of his most reliable and trusted ogre servants. Quickly the bluish pale ogre came bustling inside the chamber with a rather large book cradled in his arms. However, no sooner than he had entered the office, the ogre was already backing out the door. Opening the book, Koemma began speaking again. "A rare artifact, long believed to have been lost for the past several centuries has recently resurfaced, and to our misfortune it has resurfaced to a demon lord by the name of Logaust. Not too much is known about this demon other than he is an S class demon with a pretty decent following and from what I can gather he doesn't sound too friendly." Holding up the large book and pointing at a picture of a strange looking urn. The urn was a dingy slate color with several odd symbols written upon it. "This is the artifact known as The Urn of Desire."
"What does this thing do exactly..? Just looks like a stupid piece of pottery to me….." Yusuke interrupted, blinking his eyes a few times and scratching his head in confusion as he leaned against the way next to Kuwabara.
"Well I was getting to that if you would let me finish for once, Yusuke."The little demi-god replied a little bit irritated with constantly being interrupted." The urn of desire is a sacred and ancient relic to many of the Makai's old world tribes; it was fought over for centuries by many different rival demon races. The urn allows its owner to control a highly dangerous toxin and demons that are infected with the toxin are controlled by the urn's weilder, the toxin itself is a rare pheromone that only is secreted by a Snake demon on its on hundredth birthday and when it is inhaled under normal circumstances it typically repels other demons, kind of like a barrier, and if the demons ignore the warning and press matters then they become poisons by the pheromone and it will kill them in a matter of days. However if these pheromones are released during the demon mating season, it changes the effects slightly, into a more dangerous one."
"How dangerous do you mean, koemma sir?"Questioned the red headed fox, green eyes narrowing a tiny bit, he didn't like the sound of where this mission was going.
"It will intensify the effects of the mating season itself, creating a more dangerous and deadly situation…even the tamest demons, will become highly aggressive and deadly, we would run the risk of the Makai possibly being overrun by S class demons and possibly a massive spike in the population…the whole demon ecosystem is getting out of whack. Quite frankly I am worried that this could spread out into the Ningenkai , if things get too out of hand. And to make matters worse the demons seem to be seeking out higher class demons, that they would normally avoid, particularly, ones that are outside of their species…too many hybrids can be a very dangerous thing and there's no telling how powerful or what kind of hybrids this situation could create. This is why this mission is so urgent, the mating season has already began, and there's no way of telling how many demons have been infected and are under Logaust's control." Koemma sighed and stood up from his chair. He was worried, this was going to be a very dangerous mission and he was quite scared of the outcome…if the Makai became over ran there was not much he nor the spirit detectives could do about it.
"What about Hiei and I? Unless you have forgotten that we both are demons." The fox spoke up, moving a strand of red hair out of his eyes.
"Ah, yes I have already thought about that little issue, Botan if you would." Koemma stepped aside as the young ferry girl walked towards the group holding a small but strange looking wooden box in her hands. Extending the box out towards them she moved to open the lid."This is an experimental drug that will nullify the effects of the pheromone, it should work and just to be on the safe side I strongly suggest that all four of you take one." She waited as each of the four detectives reached inside the little box and grabbed a small greenish colored pill.
"Be safe guys and remember to use the communicator if you get into too much trouble." Botan smiled and waved them off as she opened a portal that will lead them to the Makai.
"Contact me once you have located the whereabouts of Logaust and the urn." Koemma shouted to them waving them off as well as they walked through the portal and once they had all made it through the tunnel back to the spirit world slowly disappeared, leaving them in the Makai. Hopefully they didn't run into too much trouble.