Disclaimer: I own nothing of Sigma 6, which is owned by Hasbro. Only the plot is mine.
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As a whole, the team hated dealing with items that had a direct connection to the afterlife and with good reason.
Those items tended to be the most unstable and therefore the hardest to safely contain, especially the belief-made ones.
Unfortunately, today's case was one of those thrice-cursed belief-made items.
Wearing two pairs of spelled gloves and using a set of tongs, Duke held the ring as far away from himself as he could, trying to keep his emotions under control while Snake Eyes approached him carefully with a containment box on an extended pole.
The ring was laughable in design: a clunky, fake silver skull with red glass for eyes and some black glass in the open mouth to highlight its sharp teeth.
Its story was even more laughable. The man that had originally owned it had gone around claiming that it housed his own personal demon, one that would either eat the souls of his enemies or drag them to the underworld, all at his command. It arguably would have been alright, but the idiot had gone around claiming that he'd sacrificed people to the ring demon and that now their souls were increasing said demon's power.
Somehow people started believing him and after that, it wasn't long before the ring actually gained a belief-made demon inside. One that was horribly hungry.
The containment box was finally in reach. Duke quickly dropped the ring inside and Snake Eyes practically broke a record sealing it shut, slapping on extra protection seals to make sure the box stayed shut.
Both men released the breaths they'd been holding until that point. There was a special place in the Vault for this box, one that would be even more heavily sealed and ensure the item was secured.
Duke motioned for the both of them to leave the building. Snake Eyes held onto the box as he melted away into the shadows, headed right for the portable Vault in the ROCC to put it away. The team leader sighed as shouting came to his ears once he exited the building.
Now to deal with the ring's owner, who'd been alive at an expense that sickened the team when they'd learned about it. Remembering what they'd found in one of the back rooms, Duke hardened himself and went to deal with the problem.
Some days, this job just wasn't worth it.