Out front of Aunt Zelda's cottage, they discovered DomDaniel's apprentice, who had claimed to be Septimus Heap. They also sunk DomDaniel's ship, The Vengeance. Then, Boy 412, Jenna, and Nicko snuck onto the Vengeance. They then discovered the Magykal Dragon Boat of Hotep-Ra. To escape him, Boy 412 led Jenna and Nicko to the tunnels he had (literally) stumbled upon earlier. Later, when everyone was trying out Unseen spells, Marcia found out that the boy had extraordinary Magykal power and asked him to be her apprentice, which he refused at the time.Īfter Marcia was captured by DomDaniel, the Hunter set out to kill Jenna. One day while exploring the marshes there, Boy 412 discovered a magic ring shaped like a dragon which fitted him perfectly when he fell underground, as well as an underground tunnel which led to Aunt Zelda's Unstable Potions and Partikular Poisons cupboard. Finally, they arrived at Aunt Zelda's cottage on Draggen Island. While they were being pursued by boat, Boy 412 tried to shout to the Hunter, showing that he didn't trust the Heaps or Marcia at the time. They then sailed to the Marram Marshes, closely followed by the Hunter working with the Assassin. In the meantime, Silas and Nicko arrived at the Tower, but all of them had to escape as an Assassin came for Jenna. They learned that the boy's name is 'Boy 412'. She and Jenna dug him up and took him to the top of Wizard Tower, where Marcia Restored him. She then realized that the sentry boy was buried within the snow.

When she came back to the Tower with Jenna she noticed that the boy was nowhere to be seen. When Marcia was going to the Heap family to take Jenna away to safety, she noticed that a Young Army boy had been posted at the Wizard Tower's main entrance. It is also revealed that the first scene to be replayed when Septimus raises the Safety Curtain is the one showing Bertie Bott being trampled by the Things.

It was revealed in Darke that many years later, he raised the Safety Curtain as he regretted not being a part of it when Marcia raised it to quarantine the Darke Domaine. There he was named Boy 412 and became friends with a boy numbered 409, later known as Wolf Boy. He was accidentally taken away to the Young Army when DomDaniel's nurse took Merrin Meredith instead of Septimus, who ended up being DomDaniel's apprentice in Septimus' place. On the day of his birth, Septimus was taken away from his mother Sarah Heap by the Matron Midwife on the commands of the evil Necromancer, DomDaniel.

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