The Alchemyst

Sophie and Josh join Scathach and Flamel for dinner. Flamel tells the teenagers they will not be able to return to their normal life now that they have been touched with magic and Dee is looking for them. When Hekate later arrives, she has taken the form of a much older woman, so Sophie and Josh assume she must be Hekate’s mother. Josh accidentally insults her when he mentions her age, and Scathach keeps Hekate from killing him by using a dagger made of iron, which nullifies the older Elders’ powers. Hekate, the Goddess with Three Faces, takes the form of a young girl in the morning, a woman in the afternoon, and an elder lady at night. Flamel then promises the twins Hekate will awaken their own abilities, and he will train them to become magicians.

Flamel remembers the words of the prophecy, which he first learned about centuries earlier and now believes is about the twins. He thinks Josh and Sophie will be able to stop the Elder Race from returning and destroying humankind. The mysterious Abraham, who wrote the Codex, recorded that the Elders possess magic to control four of the five elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth.