"PRIDE!" Jack called as he stormed through the dark woods of Halloween Town searching for the dark looming manor of the Seven Deadly Sins. Everything had returned to normal in Halloween Town and the Halloween preparations were well underway, they had a lot of catching up to do. But right now Jack had more important things on his mind. "PRIDE!" Jack called again. The Seven Deadly Sins came an went as they pleased from Halloween Town. As long as they stayed out of trouble they were welcome to use the town as their sort of home. But the seven sisters were never around when he needed them. At last he came upon one of the Sins sitting on an old tombstone and reading a book. It wasn't Pride but she might know where Pride was. "Envy!" Jack called. The teenage girl sitting on the tombstone looked up her eyes were dark green showing that she was currently not using her powers. If she was using her magic her eyes would have been a pure glowing white color. She dressed in a dark green dress with a face on the front, the face of the green eyed monster consisting of only two emerald eyes and a fang filled smile, and even darker green sleeves. The face of the green eyed monster watched Jack as Envy herself surveyed him carefully. She stood up her heavy boots thumping as they connected with the ground she wore dark and light green striped knee socks and a black headband with her name embroidered in green on the silky black fabric. She folded her arms watching him carefully.
"Hello Jack." she said her voice hollow and monotonous. She never spoke with any emotion other then irritation but rarely did she lift her voice at all for any reason. "We have done nothing wrong. I see no reason for your presence."
"I'm looking for Pride." Jack replied meeting Envy's gaze. They stood for a long time, an icy Halloween wind blew around the young sin but she remained silent. "This is no time for show Envy. Either you know where she is or you don't." Jack snapped.
"Follow me." Envy replied her voice never changing for the hollow tone she had used from the first day Jack had ever met her. She placed a bookmark in her book and turned quickly walking through the tall unkempt grass with Jack close behind her. She lead him to a large black mansion that moved around when the Sins came and went. "Inside, in her room." Envy said turning back around and leaving Jack alone at the door.
"Thank you Envy." Jack called after her but as he turned he saw that she had completely vanished without another word. Jack knocked on the dark shadow covered door and it swung open at his touch. "Pride?" he called uncertainly into the darkness. At last he saw the figure of a girl in a dark blue ball gown with a Miss Universe style banner wrapped around her reading her name, Pride, in dark blue letters. Her gown bore several medals and ribbons all first place and she carried exactly what Jack needed. Her enchanted mirror was decorated with bright gold and jewels, all blue in color so it would match her dress, and she held it in a pale delicate hand. She looked up at him her dark blue eyes showing surprise at seeing the skeletal King of Halloween standing on the porch.
"Jack? I haven't even left the mansion today, what brings you here?" she asked uncertainly. She did not look at him long. Her eyes went almost instantly back to the enchanted mirror where she fixed the silver tiara on her long blue hair.
"I need to use your mirror Pride, I need to talk with Kyrii." Jack said gravely. Pride pouted slightly and reluctantly handed over the mirror deciding that it really wasn't worth her time to argue about it with the Pumpkin King.
"Why you want to call the Underworld's queen is beyond me, and I was going to ask, but then I realized something: I really don't care." Pride said folding her arms and tapping her blue high heeled shoe impatiently as she waited for Jack to use her mirror. In the meantime she snapped and two full length mirrors materialized around her and orbited slowly so that she could make sure she kept up her appearance from every angle.
"Show me Kyrii." Jack ordered and at once the silver glass faded revealing a dark looming room where a woman in a white gown with a red sash tied around her waste sat, surrounded by candles their flickering glow bathed her deathly white skin in a golden light. All around her the glowing crimson lights of the wings of her butterflies danced across the shadow covered walls of the Underworld. "Kyrii this is Jack." Jack said calmly into the mirror. The woman looked up walking over to the mirror on her desk where from her side she saw the face of the Pumpkin King. This was one of the ways you could manipulate the power of Pride's mirror of course Jack did not know all of its secrets, only Pride knew that. He watched as the Queen of the Underworld sit down in front of the mirror her stringy black hair covered her eyes and parted around her mouth revealing two full blood red lips twisted in a maniac smile. "We need to talk." At these words her smile widened slightly.
"Jack darling, it's been ages since you last called. So tell me, how have you been dear?" she asked her voice so cold that it made Jack loose some of his cool.
"Don't play with me Kyrii. I'm not in the mood." Jack snapped. "We need to talk now." he demanded not letting the frightening woman on the other side of the glass get to him.
"I'm listening." Kyrii replied placing her elbows on the desk in front of her and placing her chin in her pale blood stained hands in an almost childlike manor. The long flowing white sleeves of her blood stained dress slid down her slender arms reveling several bracelets all decorated with strange demonic symbols that held some sort of secret power. Jack dared not ask what.
