(During W.I.T.C.H Issue 1, night of Halloween party)
"Are you sure about this?" Ray asks on his legionate combat uniform, dark brown sleeve jacket with attach large hood behind with ocher and silver accents, leather shoulder armor on his left, silver belt linings, dark brown trousers and boots with metal strap on his soles, as he places his two fingers on the bow's string and watches over on top of a house a hundred feet from Sheffield Institution.
"Oh, I'm sure they will be there." Eric assures him as he dresses up in his own legionate uniform, white long sleeve garment with ocher and silver accents on the sleeves outline; on top is a brown short sleeve open jacket with a large hood behind, silver belt that attaches his brown open skirt above his shin and boots with metal strap. "Nigel's on the guard too. If something goes wrong we rush over there when he calls us via cellphone call."
(During W.I.T.C.H Issue 1, before Halloween party)
"I have a plan." Eric replies as he takes a flyer ad from the tray. "I think we should let the infiltrators come in."
"And I thought you were on our side but it seems that you aren't." Nigel sarcastically replies. "What do you mean we should let Phobos' men come to Earth?"
"First, the twelve portals to guard and the three us isn't enough to know where the Meridianites would enter." Eric says as he taps his finger on the table. "Second, the portals are now on the hands of the future guardians now, and third, we don't have the power to seal off the portals if we wanted to."
"With their disguise as human beings, such as Elyon's adoptive parents, I think both Nigel and I could sense any inhuman being." Ray says "But how should we know where and when Phobos' men make their move?"
Eric hands out the flyer ad to them. "Nigel, you're a student in Sheffield, I think you should know about this."
Nigel receives a dark-theme yet entertaining designed flyer ad with a huge Halloween pumpkin on the center. "Yeah, it's the Halloween Party this week. Uriah has this crazy idea of inserting some fireworks in the large pumpkin that the students made. Care to explain about it?"
"Theory," Eric crosses his hands and places on his face. "If I were Phobos' men, the best place to capture Elyon is to go unnoticed and unaware and I think a party is the best event for them to infiltrate. In addition, it's a Halloween party with a requirement to wear their own costume and that means…"
"Meridianites who can't disguise themselves can actually be the 'costume' themselves!" Ray finishes off as Eric slightly smirks.
"But how can you be so sure?" Nigel asks suddenly. "There are still a thousand possibilities that you're deduction may not come true!"
"It's not a deduction, only a theory, but" Eric sternly looks at Nigel. "it's worth a try."
(During W.I.T.C.H Issue 1, night of Halloween party)
"I don't think this is worth it." Eric says as he places his binoculars, observing the situation.
"And you're turning back now?" Ray asks slyly. "Where's all the spunk you had back at Golden's?"
"Must've left it at Golden's, I guess." Eric grins as he pushes the buttons on his phone and places it on his ear. "How's it going?"
"Wrong time to ask!" A hundred feet away from them, Nigel exclaims on his cellphone as he hides behind the trees of the school. "We just placed the fireworks in the pumpkin and you almost blow up our cover when my phone rang!"
"You didn't put it on vibration mode?" Eric asks.
"Oh forget it!" Nigel replies. "Call you when I see something? Alright?" He closes the phone and puts his costume on.
"Hey Nigel?... Nigel?" Eric calls out to his phone and shoves it back to his pocket "Oh great! He shut me down!"
"What did he say?" Ray asks as he sits down on the roof.
"Going to call when he founds something" Eric replies as he lies down on the cool roof tiles.
"You're not over with those stars, aren't you?" Ray notices his friend gazing on the stars.
"When you have a family full of astronomers and researchers? Maybe I don't" Eric grins as he continues to gaze on the stars.
Few hours passed as they heard no call from Nigel. They are still on guard as they alternate themselves each after fifteen minutes. All they observed was the echo and lively music from the distance as the spotlights of different colors hover the night sky. From the entry point are the students in different costumes, extroverts and introverts alike, attends to the special celebration.
The phone vibrates suddenly in Eric's pocket; he pulls it out and flashes the name 'Nigel' on the screen. He answers the phone and Nigel replies "They're here!"
Eric looks at Ray with an anxious yet stern look on his face. Eric hand gestures to Ray 'stay here and see from behind' and he replies with a nod and prepares his long bow and arrow. Eric puts on the hoodie and leaps and parkours each structure his passes by to Sheffield Institute.
Meanwhile at Sheffield, Nigel still on the air continues to report on the corners of the event with his black hat and checkered-mummified costume on. "I sense two Meridianites, though I can't see from the huge crowd. One is a galhot, large blue-skin, not in disguise as you predicted, and an escanor, human form mid-twenty years old and blond hair on in red coat—"
"Hey Nigel!" says an orange spiky-messy hair with a funky loose devil costume. Slouched yet aggressive, he calls to Nigel by the shoulder. "Who're you talking to anyway?"
"Sorry Uriah, could I just-" Nigel says yet his feet drag by Uriah pull to the arm.
"Come on the explosion is about to start!" Kurt Van Bruen, a stout brown-haired teen, exclaims.
"Nigel! Status?" Eric, still on the phone, calls to Nigel as he hears the thumps and the static noises in the phone. 'Eric's coming' Nigel thinks.
"Wait, gotta go!" Nigel turns off his phone as he heard Eric's voice not to stop him.
Uriah and his friends and Nigel quietly walk to the school backyard third floor balcony as they avoid the flash of lights from the security guards. From the balcony afar is the school's backyard with a few students that surrounds it and the middle of it is the large pumpkin which will be ablaze and set for the large bonfire later on. Nigel looks out from the school balcony and hopes Eric would arrive as soon as possible.
Suddenly, a cheer of people soon grow louder and louder. They peek below the balcony and see a sea of people carry and drag the Meridianite on their shoulders go outside as they surround the large pumpkin.
"Hey! That obese blue-skinned creature won best costume!" Kurt cries out in laughter and Uriah gives a silence gesture at him.
When he realizes the situation at hand, he takes his phone out of his hands to report back to Eric yet stops suddenly when he realizes and remembers about that certain galhot. A while ago, Nigel saw a fast glance of the ordinary blue-skinned Meridianite as any commoner of Meridian yet as he sees him closer and clearer, his eyes widen and jaw drops slightly.
"Sir Vathek?"
