Victor Frankenstein is a wealthy sixteen-year old boy who lives in a massive century old chateau. Together he lives with his parents, his older brother Konrad and two infant brothers and his distant cousin Elizabeth quite comfortably with some of their hobbies including boating around the lake, fencing and horseback riding into the city.They live in the small town of Bellerive near Geneva. Chateau Frankenstein used to be a castle and held many secret passages and rooms. Victor, Konrad and Elizabeth stumbles upon a secret door that opes to a dark mysterious library filled with ancient books. They soon discover that they had found a long abandoned alchemy lab that belonged to their ancestor William Frankenstein and their father forbids them to go there again. Alchemy is considered a false science and is considered illegal. One unfortunate afternoon, Konrad suddenly faints from a fencing session with Victor and becomes critically ill. Their family summons the best of physicians throughout Europe to cure Konrad but nobody seemed to understand his condition. Victor, Elizabeth and close friend Henry sneak into the alchemy lab in which they called the Dark Library. Together they search through alchemy books looking for a possible cure and they find the recipe for the Elixir of Life which is said to heal and make anyone immortal. They find that the pages were burned and were written in an invented language called Alphabet of the Magi. They then seek the help of an old alchemist named Julius Poridori to decode and find the ingredients to make this elixir. Carrying the motivation to save his brother's life, the three of them embark on a perilous journey to collect the three ingredients and create the Elixir of Life. Along the way, Victor becomes more convinced that alchemy is a reality and not false science. Later, Mr. Polidori reveals his plan on using it on himself and only used Victor and company to collect the ingredients. They escape his lab and return home in time to give Konrad the Elixir of Life filled with hope that he will be cured. Konrad dies and Victor's dream of proving alchemy true is shattered.
