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Dante looked from Nicholas to the twins. "You've met?"

Nicholas nodded. "Yes. Last month I was working in a bookshop in San Francisco. Josh was working for me. Dee came and we fought. Sophie came in and Dee murdered them."

Dante gasped. "Murdered them!"

The girl, Sophie, nodded. "Dee is a cold blooded murderer."

Nicholas spoke. "While they were dying, I used my knowledge to connect them with the Book. I am not proud about the fact that I learned Necromancy when I was on my way to becoming an alchemyst but it has proved to be useful. I sent the Book to a direct descendant of Abraham the Mage. When you got it, the twins must have somehow connected with you."

Josh continued from there. "We were sent away with the Book to Dante and when we got to him, he touched the book. We could feel a chance to help mankind; the Book had opened us to eons of knowledge about the Dark Elders and the Fall of Danu Talis. We connected our auras and blended them with Dante's. Gold, Silver and Bronze reunited. The power was amazing."

Dante turned to Nicholas."How did I do that with the water?"

"I don't know. It's common for someone to learn the Magic of Water but no one else has every taught themselves the Magic. In fact, no one else has ever Awakened themselves. You, Dante, are very unique.

Dante twirled his fingers and the water in the puddle rose up, temporarily removing Josh and Sophie. The water then descended and Sophie and Josh returned. "You can get rid of us, you know", said Josh to Nicholas.

"I could never do that. I caused you two to die! How could I banish you from your only chance of life?"

Sophie and Josh's eyes widened. "We can come back to life?"

"Yes. It would require great necromancy skills and a powerful aura but it could be done. It would be using a spell in the codex, a spell called the final summoning.

Thoughts and pictures flooded Dante's head at the mention of the Final Summoning. He decided to question the Alchemyst.

"Doesn't that spell bring back the Dark elders?"

"Yes, but it can be altered to bring back only the dead."

"But doesn't that mean that other spirits would come back too?"

"No, we can alter it further so that only Sophie and Josh would come back."

"Great! I'll just get out the codex and do it now."

"No! Dante, if this spell is done incorrectly, it could bring back the Dark Elders. If it is to be done correctly, you would have to be skilled in necromancy. Only one necromancer is on our side. You would have to go to him."

"Who is it?" As soon as the words left Dante's mouth he knew the answer.

"Hades, the Greek god of the Dead."

Josh and Sophie had materialised beside Dante and Nicholas (much to Nicholas' surprise.) and were protesting.

"No! We won't let you do this."

They stood in front of the human and the immortal, but Dante and Nicholas passed through them.

Dante turned to Nicholas. "Where can we find Hades?"

"We can find him where you would find any other God of the dead. Hades can be found at Alcatraz, San Francisco."

Dante nodded. "With so much death and thoughts of death and murderers, it would be the perfect place for him to be."

"We will need to get the help of a great sorceress. She is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, meaning she can speak with ghosts."

"Who's this great sorceress, Circe?"

"No, her apprentice, Perenelle Flamel, my wife."

"Seriously, your wife is Perenelle Flamel!"

"Yes"

"Who's that?"

Nicholas groaned. "I thought you knew of her."

"I thought you were dead"

Josh clapped. "Good comeback"

Sophie was with Nicholas. "You shouldn't tell people you know them if you don't. It's very immature."

Dante decided to end this war. "So, how do we get to Alcatraz?"

"We use a ley line"

"What's a ley line?"

Nicholas groaned again. "You ask a lot of questions."

Dante grinned. "That's why everybody loves me."

Nicholas smiled. "Anyway, a ley line is a portal of some kind that lets you go to a different place in the world. Each ley line comes out somewhere else. The ley line we are going to use is in Newgrange. Unfortunately, no one knows where Newgrange comes out."

"So why are we using it?"

Nicholas' eyes gleamed. "I know. It comes out at the Golden Gate Bridge."

With that, Nicholas grabbed Dante and told him to liquidize them again. The sea carried them to the coast of Meath and they made it to Newgrange without any bother. That was, until a thunderbolt hit the ground in front of them.

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