Hekate agrees to awaken the power of the twins. Nick wants their help in retrieving the Codex and saving Perenelle. The prophecy states that the twins are powerful enough to save the world-or destroy it. Nick believes the twins are part of a prophecy from the Codex and that they themselves have magical powers, which Hekate can awaken. Then, Nick decides to take them to Hekate, a three-faced Elder. Nick and Scathach are able to fight off the birds. Shortly thereafter, Dee sends thousands of birds after the group at Golden Gate Bridge, where they battle to escape the birds. Unfortunately, Dee has sent rats after them and they are forced to escape. ![]() There, Nick asks for help from Scathach, who is a Next Generation Elder. Nick whisks Sophie and Josh away to a hideout. Luckily, the pages that were left behind happen to be the final summoning spell therefore Dee will be unable to complete his task. John Dee plans to use the book for other nefarious purposes, as well:he wants to summon the Elder Race, who previously ruled the earth and used humans as slaves and food. Without the book, Perenelle and Nicholas will age rapidly and die within a month. ![]() Nick explains that John Dee is a magician as well, a necromancer-meaning he can raise the dead. Nick is the greatest alchemist of all time and skilled in magic. He and his wife Perenelle have been taking the Elixir of Life to keep them alive, and its recipe is in the Codex. He is the centuries-old alchemist Nicholas Flamel. Josh attempts to disengage John Dee by tackling him, but John Dee takes the book, leaving a few pages with Josh. Sophie and Nick’s wife Perry both arrive on the scene. To Josh’s surprise, Nick and John Dee begin using magic against each other, fighting for the book. A man named John Dee enters the shop and asks for the Codex. They both are working summer jobs, Sophie at a coffee shop and Josh at the bookstore across the street. Sophie and Josh Newman are fifteen and live in San Francisco. The teens meet many popular characters from history and myth as their ordinary lives become extraordinary. Scott uses his knowledge of and expertise in folklore to weave a story about two teenagers in San Francisco who get caught up in a centuries-long battle over a book. The Alchemyst (2007), by Michael Scott, is the first novel in his fictional fantasy series about the real historical alchemist Nicholas Flamel.
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