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Chapter 2

They all nodded in agreement and sat still. A sound from the backside of the cafe caused the girls to scream and crowd closer to each other. Nate and Luke shared a quick look and wordlessly headed out.

Luke called out, "Anybody here?"

There was no response.

Lucas called out again, and still no response.

Lucas then looked at Nate and said, "I don't think anybody is here."

Nate almost nodded in agreement, until he saw something in the distance. Nate said, "Luke I don't think we're alone here anymore."

Lucas looked where his cousin was looking and saw the thing coming he saw had a humanoid shape to it. When the humanoid shape got closer it made a weird sound and tried to attack Lucas. Lucas dodged the hit the best he could, and then he threw a punch into it's chest but when he did it felt like hitting a rock. Lucas just held his fist as it throbbed with pain, then Nate went on the offensive and tried to attack with it a punch, but it had the same results. The figure became clear and it looked like the things that was on the website and their were labeled as puddies. Nate looked over at Luke and said, "This has got to be one of those puddies that the girls were talking about, right?"

Luke nodded and said, "I think that's a safe assumption."

Out of now where five more puddies showed up and now Luke and Nate seemed to be out of their league with this fight. The puddies were closing in on them until a flash of bright light and then the puddies were destroyed. Luke and Nate tried to make out where the flash came from and they saw what appeared to be man. This man was armored from head to toe, he had horns sticking both sides of his head, and he an a turquoise colored gem in the middle of his chest piece. The rest of the armor was black, along with what the source of the flash, it was a gun. This gun wasn't any kind Luke and Nate saw before.

The mysterious figure still had his gun pointed where he shot and then he something out of the ordinary, he switched his gun to a sword and put it back in it's sheath. Luke and Nate then were wondering who this guy was and how did destroy this things with such ease because they had trouble fighting the puddies. Luke and Nate both cautiously walked to the mysterious armored man. The man just stood there and let them walk up to him.

Lucas asked, "Who are you? How did you destroy this things so easily?"

Nate was still staring at the stranger in shock.

The armored figure said nothing and turned his back towards the two and left.

Lucas said, "What a strange person."

Nathan said, "He was strange, and so was his armor."

Lucas replied, "I know, he also had a gun that could turn into a sword."

They shared a look of confusion and then shrugged before they went back inside to the cafe excited to share their experience with the girls. Lucas said, "We found the thing that was made the noise out back, it was what you called a puddie."

After that Nate said, "The puddies were hard to take down because it felt like hitting a rock."

At this Haley took his hand in hers and said, "I'll get some ice."

She ran into the kitchen and came back with two bags off ice, handed one to Luke and held the other on Nate's hand.

Nate then continued, "Then more of those puddies showed and me and Luke thought we would be pretty much be outmatched."

Luke then went on to finish their report by saying, "We were standing there, then there was this bright flash of light and when it was gone the puddies were gone. The flash from what me and Nate could tell was from an armored figure that came out of now where. He came with a gun and the armor he wore was strange also because there was nothing like it here."

Nate continued on where Luke left off and said, "Then the gun he had turned into a sword and the person put it back in his sheath. Then he just left with out saying anything and he just defeated this puddies with ease."

The girls just nodded their heads in understanding. The friends then started talking about the recent events that just happened. While still on the computer, Peyton searched for this mysterious person from the descriptions she heard from Nate and Luke. She went up to images and found of picture of a man with the exact same description and she asked, "Is this guy you were talking about?"

Nate and Luke both stopped talking and went to the computer and they both nodded in unison. Luke read the caption of the photo aloud, "Magna Defender."

Nathan then said, "Magna Defender, who is he?"

Peyton looked through the Internet and found nothing more on the Magna Defender just the image they had already seen. They sighed because they couldn't any more information on this person and decided to give it up for now.

The phone then started to ring in the cafe and Lucas went to go pick it up, he responded with a "Hello."

A voice came back from the other side that said "Is this Lucas Scott?"

Lucas replied, "Yes, this is he."

"The puddies have captured your father," the voice on the phone said.

Lucas replied, "Who is this? How do you know this?"

There was no reply, the line had already gone dead. Lucas then hung up the phone and walked back to his friends with worried expression on his face.

Haley, noticing the expression on Luke's face, went to him and asked, "What happened Luke? Is something wrong? Who called?"

Nate asked, "Luke what's wrong? You're really scaring me by not saying anything."

Lucas replied with a little frustration in his voice, "I don't know who it was, all he said was that the puddies have taken Keith. I don't know anything else, he didn't even say anything about my mom. And I know we can't do anything because those puddies are too strong!"

Just then Karen came through the door and locked the door behind her. She looked frightened and tired. Karen said, "Lucas, Keith was taken by some gray monsters. He tried his best but they were too strong, I only got away because he put up such a good fight."

Lucas looked at his mother, and said "I know mom, some person called and told me."

Karen said, "He told to run back and tell you what happened, also make sure you kids were alright."

Lucas replied, "We're all fine, ma. But while you were gone, we heard a noise in the backside of the cafe, so me and Nate went to go check it out."

"Lucas Eugene Scott! I told you to stay in the diner, who know what could have happened to you!"

"Nothing happened to us, we're fine Aunt Karen," Nathan cut in.

"You are in just as much trouble Nathan Royal Scott," Karen said as she turned her fury on Nathan.

Lucas cut in, "Can we talk about our punishment later? I'd really like to talk about these gray monster people things that took dad. Did the ones who attacked you guys, make a funny noise?"

Karen replied quickly "Yes, they did. Why do you ask?"

Lucas said "The one who was in the back attacked us in the backside, made a funny noise too."

"You were attacked?" Karen gasped, and then she noted the now mostly melted bags of ice. She picked one up and said, "I thought you said you were fine."

"We are fine ma. Just a little bit bruised after a fight with the gray things, what were they called again Peyton?" Lucas asked, purposefully turning the attention away from their injuries.

"Puddies," Peyton supplied.

"Right, puddies. So they were in the back alley, and they captured dad for some reason, and we don't really know much else," Luke said as he sat back down and ran his hand through his hair.

The others looked at each other then at Luke.

"What should we do?" Brooke asked after several minutes had passed. "We can't just leave Keith with them."

"Like Luke and I said earlier, those puddie dudes are strong. Look at my hand, there's no way I'm going to try hitting those things again," Nathan said as he held up his now bruised knuckles.

Karen looked at Nathan's hand and then moved to inspect Lucas' hand. She sighed and then something crossed her mind, "How did you two get away? If you two were so overpowered."

"There was a mysterious figure that came to save them," Brooke said and she nudged Peyton.

"They say it was this guy," Peyton said as she pulled up the picture of the Magna Defender again.

Karen walked over and looked at the picture then sighed. She then said, "First monsters now a Magna Defender? What's going on in Tree Hill?"

The teens looked at each other and no one seemed to know what to say. The silence carried on for several minutes until it was broken by Peyton. She said, "If we're going to stay here I think we should barricade the windows and doors, just so we know we're a little protected."

The others nodded and mumbled agreements and got up to find things to barricade with. Lucas was the only one still sitting in the same spot, he slammed his fist on the table and said, "Why did they take my dad?"

The other teens looked at him, but had no answers so they continued their work. Karen sat next to her son and rubbed his back comfortingly, "I don't know Luke. But we need to make sure we're safe before we try to get him back."

The entrance door to Karen's Cafe opened and the teens scrambled away from the bookcase they were pushing against the last open window. In the doorframe stood a man, he was kind of muscular and he had spiked hair on top of his head.

The mysterious man then spoke "Hi, I'm Tommy Oliver and I hear you have a puddie problem"