(During W.I.T.C.H. Issue 1, Before Halloween)
"Number Six?" a mid-thirty waitress with a tight apron tied to her turquoise blouse calls as she calls and turns her head and holds the tray up with three fingers in a triangle.
Nigel raises the food number above his head until the waitress founds her. She immediately takes off to the table and stands next to it. She lowers the tray and gives off the ordered food. "Two-medium sized hamburger, One German sausage with fries and one plate of fries, is that all?"
"Thank you, that will be all." Eric smiles and replies at her sluggishly.
"You're welcome" The waitress smiles back and winks at him and walks away back to the counter.
"I never thought adults would have the hots for you, Eric." Nigel points his finger and chuckles as he prepares his hamburger
"Oh shut it." Eric annoyingly regrets as he too prepares his food and chuckles suddenly "I bet older women fall over you than me."
"Now look here—!" Nigel angers and almost stood up but Ray stops him. He exhales heavily and slumps back to his chair
"Hey now, for me you're both good looking, could we just acknowledge that?" Ray continues. "You also have to say something Nigel isn't that right?"
Nigel stops for a moment and looks at them for a brief time. He places his food down and turns around to see anyone hearing him. After he inspects, he moves his face forward to them and they do also the same thing. "Elyon, she's here." Nigel whispers.
Eric and Ray look at each other and gasp with their jaws slightly open. But Eric remains back to his usual posture "Joke of yours, isn't?" Eric asks and chuckles, as he was used to Nigel's gullible pranks.
"It's true Eric." Nigel replies in a serious tone.
Eric, seeing in his eyes that he is in fact telling the truth stops to smile and chuckle. "That couldn't be, and I thought percent possibilities couldn't come true." He says to himself silently.
"And how did you know this?" Ray asks.
Nigel gulps, tilts his head to the side, shrugs his shoulders and scratches his head. "She's umm—a—"
"She's?" Ray asks.
"Umm—a s-schoolmate of mine. I just learned about it three days ago." Nigel stutters and gives off a quirky laugh to make them laugh.
An awkward long pause starts to reign on the conversation as the both of them squints and stares their eyes at him in a silent disappointment.
"Okay okay!" Nigel explains rampantly. "I've been with Uriah for such a time now and he bullies everyone around him and can't even remember many faces of the students he faces!" He then remains back to his normal posture.
"Her full name is Elyon Brown." He turns around again and gives a folder to them with the word 'confidential' written over it. Eric opens the folder and Ray looks at it; it is full of information and pictures of her. She's known for her blond hair and long twin braids on her sides.
"Hope you didn't get suspended for stealing school records of such a beauty." Ray chuckles and teases. "Yet what surprised me is how did you know that it was Elyon all these time?"
"I've seen her a few times before and I've got that strange feeling that I've seen her someone before. I've searched in one of our pictures in our books" Nigel explains as he gives them a picture of portrait of Elyon to them. "And that's where I knew her."
"You could have at least told us about. I was even here with you yesterday and you never told me anything!" he angrily yet patiently exclaims. "We could have investigated her as soon as we heard about."
"But I tried to investigate her." Nigel grins.
"You did?" Rays asks surprisingly.
"When I learned about this I tried to experiment her if she could react to this." Nigel holds up a uniquely and carved amulet pendant. "A famous Meridian amulet worn by most of its people"
"And what did you do with your risky experiment?" Eric points out. "You knew that if she knows your identity we're all going to be dead meat."
"That, I was expecting." Nigel explains. "You see my experiment played out as I was holding loads of books on my hands, I dropped the amulet on purpose on front of Elyon and ask her to reach it for me. She took it and gave it to me normally with no reaction whatsoever to it!"
"Maybe she's too smart to hold her reactions back." Rays says.
"No." Nigel rebuffs "I don't think so. I read her eyes and gestures; she doesn't know. She didn't even hesitate."
"So you're saying that Princess Elyon doesn't know who she really is?" Eric clarifies.
"It seems so, yeah." Nigel says. "But in terrible danger."
"Danger?" Ray asks as Eric and he are all ears.
"I confronted their parents at the said addressed based on the school file the other day, with the cap of course to protect my identity." Nigel explains.
"Thomas and Eleanor Brown…" Eric reads.
"But their real names are Alborn, a former legionate and commander of Royal Guard, and Miriadel, a former captain of the army. Because Alborn trusted me as a fellow legionate, he informed about the near rising peak of Phobos' power and to take Elyon with him."
"And why would he take her?" Ray suddenly asks. "I mean she doesn't know anything about Meridian stuff right? She even doesn't know her true brother!"
"That I don't know; neither his parents knew." Nigel says. "But according to them it will be very soon. This will also mean that one of the twelve portals will be used as gateway for Phobos' men to get here."
A long silence comes about, the gathering of ideas and realizations of facts are too hard to understand and analyze. They are but merely just children with no guidance to help them the only question they could ask is…
"So what should we do now Atlas?" Ray asks as Ray and Nigel worriedly look to his friend who calmly thinks and rolls his pupils all over the place. Eric places his curved finger on his chin as he shuffles his feet.
"We need to think of a plan." Eric replies.
