Oblivion (Power of Five)

Plot synopsis

After being separated from the world ten years the Gatekeepers finally come back through the mysterious doors. Jamie is the first to appear in St Boltoph's in the north east of England and he arrives in a strange and seemingly hostile village. There is no electricity nor power and the townspeople are weary and hostile. He meets a girl named Holly and a strange man named the Traveller who take him under their wing.

Meanwhile, the executives of Nightrise Corporation are in the ruins of New York attending a business conference named the "Endgame" Conference where, it is said, they will be given their rewards. But these "rewards" are really to become soldiers of the Old Ones. A riot ensures in the United Nations and twenty of the executives are killed. The rest are consigned to training camps in the country to prepare for the final outcome.

Back in the village, Jamie is having trouble fitting in. He finally tells Holly the truth about him and the Five, and although she doesn't believe him she eventually sees the truth, especially when one of her villagers betrays them all to police and the police destroy everyone in the village. The Traveller saves Jamie and Holly comes along even though no one wants her. They make a dark and dangerous journey towards London - which no longer exists because it was bombed by terrorists shortly after the Gatekeepers disappeared and nine other cities in Britain were hit. But the door in Saint Meredith's church still exists and this is what Jamie is looking for. But on the way to London, they run into a village whose inhabitants have become cannibals.

Scott and Pedro come through a door in Italy where they are immediately captured by the police working for the Old Ones and left in cells. Scott is taken to meet Jonas Mortlake, who was at the Endgame Conference, but he was a high-ranking officer of Nightrise (son of Susan Mortlake) so he wasn't recruited for militia. He assigns Scott the task of betraying the others if he breaks Pedro's finger to prove his loyalty to evil. Scott, drugged and weary, does so. But later when he meets Pedro he is shocked by his action. He breaks Jonas' finger himself and they leave. But Mount Vesuvius erupts and destroys Naples. Pedro only gets on a ship through a servant named Giovanni who saves him but Pedro has to swim through human sewage to get out of the place.

En route, Pedro's ship is hit by a tsunami from the volcanic eruption but it survives. Then they get to the Vatican where Pedro meets a family called the Riveras, the eldest son of whom is a priest who is in the Pope's circle. Pedro sees the daughter is sick with cancer and cures her. The priest is disillusioned and dismayed at Pedro's power and tries to kill Pedro because "there can only be one Saviour and it is not him" but Pedro saves himself by vomiting out the poison the priest used. The priest dies but Pedro lives. But Pedro escapes and meets a good janitor who takes him to a door in the Vatican which Pedro wants to use to get to Oblivion, the Old Ones' palace.

Meanwhile, Matt and Lohan have arrived in Brazil and Matt is encouraging Lohan to sell him for money. He sells him to a drug lord, then they both get wound up in mining. Matt visits the dreamworld in the library where the Librarian gets the book of Matt's life out for him to read all the way through. Matt does and is shocked at his future which reveals him being betrayed then tortured and killed. But he knows it is destiny so he goes along with it, knowing that it will work. First, he needs to get to Antarctica and to do this he needs to find one of the doors.

But the doors are locked. Scott works this out and manages to work a way round it. But first the new chairman of Nightrise wants him to betray Matt. He puts it as a choice between wealth or suffering. Then Scott summons Matt to a bay where he does betray him. The Old Ones come and take Matt and Richard. They crucify Matt and lacerate him and then summon Richard to say goodbye, but Richard kills Matt to end his pain. This not only sets the sky on fire but it causes an earthquake. Meanwhile, Scott is being beaten by Jonas and Lohan kills Jonas. So Scott opens the doors but it kills him with the electrical power inside the lock.

The Old Ones converge on Scarlett, Pedro and Richard, thinking this is their victory, and Chaos himself, the King, appears. But Holly and Jamie arrive from London, having survived an attack by the giant spider, and soon afterwards, the version of Matt from the past and Flint, Scott's past form, arrive to fight Chaos. All the Five are together at last and they plunge their swords into Chaos, killing him. The ground splits open and a chasm into space is revealed into which a third gate forms and all the Old Ones are banished into it, as well as some missiles which the human resistance has unleashed. With evil gone, the Five leave for the dreamworld, their victory complete. They find the dreamworld is now full of colour. Richard and Holly and Lohan return to the resistance which is victorious and they set back home to England. Lohan goes off to the East looking for the Triads. Holly and Richard and the Traveller go to a village and settle there. The world begins repairing itself and things begin to get better.

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