(During Issue 2: Heatherfield's Park, before meeting dormouse)
"I don't think this is a good idea, Uriah"
One fine afternoon of the next day Nigel joins Uriah and his gang in Heatherfield Park. As the usual, his gang is up for pranks and tricks. They were not only known troublemakers of Sheffield Institute, but Heatherfield itself. Because of their privilege of being wealthy and their parents known for their status and wealth, they always get away from the problems they have caused. Nigel on the other hand, though he knows Uriah's schemes are mean and dangerous, he owes a big debt to him.
"You have never known how to have fun, Nigel." Uriah says as he climbs up a barren tree. "Lighten up already! We are just having fun! If we don't prank now, when we will?"
Nigel sighs and hunches "Locking a dormouse in Martin's locker isn't the brightest idea you've come up with though."
Uriah inserts his hand to the hollow hole of the tree. "If I could only get my hands on the little…" He says as he feels something furry. "Ha! I got it!"
Suddenly, he retrieves his hand from the hole as a dormouse bit his finger."Aiieee!" he shouts in pain.
"That sure is funny!" Kurt laughs as Uriah falls with his bottom landing to the ground.
"Get it off me!" He waves his hand rapidly for the dormouse to get off and finally it lets go and hits its body behind the tree. "Get off!"
Uriah quickly grabs a thick branch from the ground and prepares to swing it at the woozy and wobbly dormouse. "Why you little!"
Nigel approaches Uriah quickly as he tries to stop him. "Hey Ur—"
"Don't you even think about it!"
They all turn to see the red head new girl of their school directly looking angrily at them. 'It's the new girl who Taranee saved during Halloween!' Nigel notices.
"Hah! Pretty tough, this new girl!" Laurent Clubberman says. He is Uriah's 'muscle' of the gang described as the blondie short hair with the large and tall body physique.
"What?" Uriah challenges her. "You really think you can tell me what to do?"
"Leave that dormouse alone!" The red-head girl demands as she approaches to them. Nigel senses a strong feeling about her. Her aura wasn't of Meridianite or any other being that he felt. Her aura is so strong that he is unable to bear the unease feeling. 'Wait, she must be…"
"Ooh! What a demanding tone! I'm trembling!" Uriah jokes to her. "And what's next Cornelia isn't here to save you this time, eh?"
'Cornelia? That's it! She's a guardian too!' Nigel remembers and enlightens as it was mentioned by Eric a few days ago after Yan Lin's death. He told Nigel about the four names of the guardians in which Nigel knew about them as a schoolmate, yet the other name was forgotten. 'From what I remember her name is Will Van-dom, I guess?"
"I can handle someone like you myself!" She challenges him.
"Oh yeah? Want to try?" Uriah accepts the challenges as he charges slowly at her.
'This is bad!' Nigel thinks as he approaches quickly to Uriah and stops him. "Calm down, Uriah…" 'Not to mention she's actually powerful than you, Uriah! And since she can't keep her powers at bay, she might disintegrate you completely!'
"This isn't over!" Uriah listens to Nigel and points out to her instead then the gang walks away to the other side of the park. "Nigel, never say that again to me."
"Huh?" Nigel as his brow crosses. "What did I say?"
"Nigel, buddy!" Uriah says as he puts around his arm over Nigel's neck. "I'm the big boy around here; I even defended you from your big brother right? Why would a petite little girl be 'powerful' than me?"
"Is that what I said?"
"Can't you remember?" Uriah asks. "She's too powerful… keep her at bay…and she might disintegrate me? Something like that?"
'Huh? Did I say that out loud?' Nigel thinks. He turns to Kurt and Laurent who shrugs their shoulders upward to what Uriah says. 'To my knowledge, Uriah's no psychic and it's impossible for him to read my mind!"
After a few minutes of walking they sit by a nearby wooden bench along the lane of the park. "Now the freakin' wind's gone now I'm sweating!" Uriah complains as he removes his sweater and toss it to the bench.
Nigel says as he notices Uriah's bare forearm near his elbow. His jaw drops and stares at a certain symbol like tattoo figure written in Martian runic is written over his skin. 'W-what that can't be!"
"Cool tattoo Uriah!" Kurt says as he points to the unfinished and light tattoo. "You know that's prohibited at school! Where did you get it?"
"Who cares!" Uriah replies. "This cool unfinished tattoo just appeared out of nowhere recently! I think I should just finish it myself!"
Nigel dumbfounded and confused to what he sees and heard from Uriah, tries to remain calm and think the situation over. He detects as he feels a magical sensation coming off from him just as he did with the red head, yet picks out an alternation of a series of on and off senses. 'Is this even possible?'
"Hey Nigel!" Uriah calls out to him and points. "That skinny figure friend of yours is waiting."
Nigel sees Eric by a distance standing next to a tree. "Better get going guys."
"See you then, man" Uriah offers his fist bump and so as his gang at him and Nigel reciprocates and bumps his fist friendly back to them and goes on his way.
"You're still with your gang?" Eric asks in a deep tone as they walk along the park's lane as nigel approaches him.
"If you're here to scold me, then should have not told you where I have been today." Nigel replies. "You're too early to be here for the night shift, it's still afternoon."
Eric hands out a picture to him as Nigel receives it. He looks at it and crosses his brow like a question mark written on his face. "What's with this picture? Why did you take one of the teachers at Sheffield, Mrs. Rudolph's picture? Hitting on her?" he insults.
"So she really is a teacher here." Eric says. "And no, I'm not hitting on her! Ray and I wanted to know if she really was telling the truth."
"Wait—what's happening? Mrs. Rudolph at Open Hills?" Nigel asks.
"This 'Mrs. Rudolph' appeared and supposedly used the thirteenth portal." Eric explains. "The reason I was not able to be continue my night shift here was because Ray reported and acclaimed that she had used it recently and two nights ago, we finally caught her she explained to us…
(During Issue 2: Night of funeral of Yan Lin)
"How did you know General Oswyn?" Ray asks after he looks at his bow, which in fact similarly looked like his uncle's bow.
"But that bow! His bow! How did you get that?" She points to that bow and still confused. "He and his Vanguard were supposed to save Meridian from Phobos!"
Eric kneels down to her and places his hand over her shoulder. "Ma'm, please calm down can you please tell us who you are and what is your motive here." Eric says calmly.
The woman breathes heavily and then calmly replies. "I am Mrs. Rudolph, I worked as a teacher at Sheffield Institute at Heatherfield."
'Sheffield Institute? Nigel's teacher?' Ray concentrates and communicates Eric through telepathy.
She then looks at him again with a stern yet somewhat reads his eyes as someone who could be trusted. "Yet my real name is Galgheita and I am from Meridian. The reason I keep going back to this portal recently was because it was the only pathway where I could send intel to Lieutenant Caleb, one of the leaders of the rebellion against Phobos in Meridian."
"Could you sense and confirm that she's from Meridian?" Eric asks Ray.
"I couldn't sense anything on her." Ray replies. "She could've been living here for many years now."
"That's true! I've been here with Alborn and Miriadel and since Elyon was an infant!" She confirms and then suddenly places her head to the ground. "I know it's too much coming from you again but Meridian needs your help!"
Eric and Ray looks at each other for a brief moment and nods slightly "We're listening." Ray replies.
"The rebellion army has always relied on the Earth's legion after having won over numerous and climatic battles in Metaworld, yet when they had fallen, the rebellion is now at its weakest point. Now, Phobos has Elyon in his hands means more danger to Metaworld." She explains.
"Vathek explained that Princess Elyon, the Light and Savior of Meridan, will now become its queen as Phobos will step down. How is that a danger?" Eric asks.
"Do you really believe on what he said?" She asks as she looks up to Eric "If you really want to find an answer, you should also come with me to Meridian and find it yourself…"
(During Issue 2: Heatherfield's Park, after meeting dormouse)
"And you reply?" Nigel asks.
"We agreed to meet her up three nights from now." Eric replies.
"And where should we meet up?"
"I actually wanted you to stay here."
Nigel then looks seriously at Eric and faces him on front. "Excuse me? You don't need me now? Is that what you are telling me?" he says angrily.
"I want you to keep an eye on Galgheita, I don't trust her. Investigate further on the matter before we enter Meridian. In case of back up and assistance, you could aid us." Eric replies. "Also I want you also to keep an eye on the Guardians discretely, from now on."
"That doesn't seem very exciting." Nigel replies. "So you and Ray got all the action while I get to babysit the Guardians?"
"If you can get a picture of the five girls; and information about them, then sure maybe Ray can take your place." Eric says. "Or just like what you showed us at Golden's, when you stole Elyon's file"
"I'm never doing that again, I was almost caught when I returned those files." Nigel replies as he takes out a notebook "If you want, I could describe them to you now as you ordered to me last time; to gather descriptions about them," He says as he flips the pages.
Nigel replies and reads. "Irma Lair, light brown hair with twin pigtails on the back and glaucous eyes and fair skin. According to my other friends, she's spunky, cheerful, optimistic and known for being humorous and cocky. Her interests are boys and Karmilla rock music and I know her father as some a police officer here. Possibly, Guardian of Quintessence, Water or Earth"
He continues to read the scribbles on his notebook. "Cornelia Hale, long blond hair and blue narrow eyes, tall, elegant and wears stylish clothes. She's a daughter of high-class family and cares for her material needs, fashion and looks. She loves ice skating and Guardian of Earth or Water."
"Hay Lin, long black hair, since a Chinese descent, yellow skin and short eyes, looks like Yan Lin. According to what she does, she's creative, artistic and geeky. According to you, her parents own a Chinese Restaurant called Silver Dragon and Guardian of Air." Nigel continues
"Taranee Cook, black-hair, brown eyes and wears black glasses. Her birthday is on March 23rd; so thirteen-years old, raised in the town of Sesamo and new girl here at Sheffield Institute. She's timid, reserved and smart, loves Mathematics and photography. Her parents are professionals, her mother is a judge and her father is a psychologist. She gets extremely angry when anyone interferes here feelings." Nigel says as Eric kindly smirks at him. "W-what?"
Eric smirks like devilish look on his face. "That's a load of information you got there."
"Flames! Okay! Okay!" Nigel blushes and cuts him off. "I couldn't believe Ray have said that to you, he's going to pay when I see him again!" He says in humiliation.
"And did you know the last guardian that I forget?" Eric asks.
"I realized a while ago when I sensed magic from her" Nigel explains. "Will Vandom, I think, she's the other new girl here. She's a redhead, short hair. Her eyes are brown and big. She often wears tomboy and practical clothing." Nigel says as he tears up the page from the notebook and gives it to Eric.
"...And that is why I chose you because you now know them personally. It's easier for you to guard them because they are here in Heatherfield and so as you" Eric says as he reaches it back to Nigel.
"Wait!" Nigel instead grabs Eric sleeves in anger "So you mean to tell me that this paper I wrote was for me all along?! You put me a lot of effort to write these down and you're not willing to take it?!"
"Don't you need it?" Eric asks sternly with a display of anger read also in his eyes.
Nigel calms down and releases Eric's sleeve and takes the paper. "Okay I'll do it."
"If you could find someone to guard them then that would be better." Eric replies calmly. "yet we're the only humans in the Legion ever since training at the academe, so who should we rely on if the only ones, the three of us, are the only ones left?"
"About that," Nigel says as he stops walking as Eric looks at him. "Do you believe in the 'Destined Tattoos?'" Nigel asks.
"Individuals who bare the 'Legionate Sigil' tattoo without the consent of the individual himself because they are destined to be legionates?" Eric asks. "That's a rare chance to see someone who could actually bare it. I don't know why you ask, but you do know we already had our marks after the ritual graduation on our shoulders."
"What if I saw one who has it" Nigel says.
Eric in bewilderment quickly asks. "Who?"
"Uriah Dunn, one of the known troublemakers and bullies here in all Heatherfield."
