The day after they ran the story in their newsletter, three strangers came to the house, threatening their lives and mentally torturing them to keep them from running any more of the story. The contact number he’d left with them had been disconnected. He questions one of Henri’s captors and learns that he received a call from someone with information about the Mogadorians and the numbered children. Before they can escape, John must use his supernatural abilities to save Sam. John threatens another resident of the home to tell him where Henri is being kept and eventually finds his Keeper tied to a chair in the basement. John enters the house Henri said he’d be visiting, while Sam watches a man who lives there. John worries when Henri fails to return from a meeting he had with the newsletter’s authors and enlists Sam’s help to find him. When one of the conspiracy newsletters that Sam reads runs a story about a race of aliens called Mogadorians intent on taking over Earth, Henri decides to investigate. Sam’s father disappeared when he was young, and the scrawny boy secretly believes aliens abducted his dad.

John convinces Henri not to leave Paradise because of the incident at school, and the two begin training so that he can develop his powers.Īlthough Mark continues to harass John, the Lorien develops a relationship with Sarah and another boy, Sam. John hides in a dark room and waits for Henri to pick him up. When Mark confronts John after class, John runs away, not because he fears the football player, but because he realizes that he is developing his Legacies, the supernatural powers that will help him defeat the Mogadorians. Unfortunately, that makes him the enemy of her former boyfriend, Mark James. On his first day at his new school, John meets Sarah Hart, and he immediately develops a crush on the beautiful and friendly girl. Henri gives Number Four a new name, John Smith, as they make their way to Paradise, Ohio, the 22nd town they’ve hidden in during their time on Earth. Keepers are the adult guardians and mentors of the Garde. Number Four receives his third scar at a high school party and flees home to escape the area with his Keeper, Henri. As each Lorien child is murdered, those that remain receive a scar around their ankle so they know how many are left. The Mogadorians that hunt them can only kill them in numerical order. The nine were given a charm of protection and a number. Nine children, members of the Garde, a race of supernaturally gifted Loriens, escaped to Earth. Ten years ago, the Mogadorians, a race of violent, powerful beasts, completely obliterated the resources and people on the peaceful planet of Lorien.

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