45 pages 1 hour read

Michael Scott

The Alchemyst

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

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Part 1, Chapters 8-16

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1: “Thursday, 31st May”

Part 1, Chapter 8 Summary

Scathach and Flamel have a conversation away from Josh and Sophie, during which the warrior implies that Flamel had a hidden agenda in bringing the twins to her. He asks her to train them.

Sophie and Josh call their parents to make up an excuse for their sudden disappearance. They are confused by what is happening but determined to understand more.

Dee, who has been using a scrying spell to spy on Flamel and the twins, sends an army of rats and three new Golems to attack the dojo.

Part 1, Chapter 9 Summary

As the rats and Golems enter the dojo, some of them are slowed down by Scathach’s traps and wards. She and Flamel fight them off while Dee controls the creatures from afar. Sophie, trying to help, throws a microwave at one of the Golems, and Scathach takes advantage of his confusion to destroy him. Flamel then turns the dojo’s wooden floor into a growing forest to stop the rats.

Part 1, Chapter 10 Summary

Josh, Sophie, Flamel, and Scathach are driving away in a car steered by the young boy, as neither Flamel nor Scathach knows how to drive. The two immortals start recounting some of their old adventures, and Scathach explains that the Elder Race gave rise to most human legends, like vampires, gods, and giants, long before recorded history.