Matthew Freeman

Matthew J. Freeman is the main protagonist of the book series The Power of Five and is the leader of the Five Gatekeepers, the main heroes of the series. Matthew Freeman is the incarnation of "Matt", the first form of his character, and he is said to represent Jesus as he is omniscient, omnipotent and has supernatural powers. He is the brother of Jamie, Scott, Pedro, and Scarlett, the son of the Librarian, and the protector of humanity.
==Nature==
Matthew is sent into the world to fight the Old Ones, ancient evil demons and destroyers of humanity created at the dawn of Time. Matthew is not alone, he has the other four Gatekeepers to help him, and the Librarian sends him prophetic visions and omens in his Dreamworld.
==Early life==
Matthew was from a happy family in North London and had everything he could wish for. His parents were Dr Mark and Kate Freeman, strongly hinted to be the human, living forms of the Librarian and his unseen wife, from the Dreamworld. But disaster struck, when Mark and Kate were killed tragically in a car crash, but eight-year-old Matthew somehow saw the disaster in a dream, tried to warn his sceptical father, but was denied any reasoning, because his parents were going to a wedding that day, of a junior doctor at Mark's surgery. Matthew watched his parents drive off and since then, he cursed himself forever to despair because they died as he predicted.
Matthew was then fostered, with an abusive half-aunt and common law uncle, Gwenda Davis and Brian Conran, in Ipswich; he became antisocial, and a delinquent, eventually just calling himself "Matt". Gwenda and Brian spent all of Matt's inheritance, and became abusive towards him. He befriended delinquent Kelvin Johnson, a boy who taught him how to steal. But eventually one day, his thieving career went wrong, when he and Kelvin broke into a warehouse, and Kelvin stabbed the security guard.
===Lesser Malling and Raven's Gate===
Things went from bad to worse when the police captured them both, sending Matt to be fostered in Lesser Malling, a village in rural Yorkshire. However, the whole village was a dark magic cult, worshippers of the Old Ones, who wanted to free their masters. They tried to sacrifice Matthew at the ruined Omega One experimental nuclear power plant, but with help from his new friend, and legal guardian, Richard Cole, Matthew realized the power of his supernatural telekenisis and escaped, banishing the Old Ones.
Matthew met a secret society designated to protect him and the Gatekeepers, the Nexus, and this was a band of influential, rich businessmen, spies, government and church leaders and investors who were protecting the Five to fight the demonic Old Ones. Matthew met them several times in London, and the Nexus sent him to a new private school in York. But things went wrong when Matthew's possessed aunt Gwenda Davis drove a fuel tanker into his empty school. The Nexus realized the second gate, in Peru, was opening, so they sent Matthew to buy a prophetic diary written by discredited Spanish monk Saint Joseph of Cordoba to save humanity. But the evil businessman Diego Salamanda stole the diary from Matthew and killed William Morton, the bookseller who was going to give Matthew the diary. Salamanda lured Matthew to Peru, under disguise of a holiday with Fabian, an agent of the Nexus, but Fabian betrayed the Nexus by aligning himself with the Old Ones and tried to get Matthew killed. Things were not in vain; Matthew met Pedro, the second of the Five, an extraordinary boy with the power to cure any injury. Matthew and Pedro became best friends and the quest continued.
===The second Gate===
The boys eventually reunited with Richard, and they lived with the survivors of the Inca race in their mountain city. Then they went to visit Professor Joana Chambers, who knew of the Inca survivors, and the Nazca desert, with its famous Nazca Lines, which actually turned out to be the second Gate, locked by the stars, which will never all align with the Lines. Even though Matthew killed Salamanda with his supernatural powers, the Gate opens and the Old Ones break free, winning this battle. To make matters worse, they punch Matthew, and leave him for dead. But Pedro arrives in time to save Matthew.
When the Native American twins Jamie and Scott, twin brothers with the powers of telepathy and mind control, arrive on the run from the evil Nightrise corporation, another sect of Old Ones worshippers, Matthew welcomes them but he doesn't fully trust Scott, worried that the Old Ones will use him to injure or kill the Gatekeepers because of their mind manipulation they used on Scott. Matthew finds the fifth Gatekeeper, Scarlett Adams, in London, and goes with Richard and Jamie, leaving Pedro and Scott in Peru, only to find that Scarlett has been unwilling sent to Hong Kong by Nightrise. Matthew, Richard and Jamie flies there after her, and meets the Triads, who were protecting Scarlett. He meets the Master of the Triad, Han Shung-Tung, who arranges him to enter Hong Kong, which is possessed. But Matthew is almost killed by the Old Ones, and although they manage to meet Scarlett and save her from complete possession, the entire city of Hong Kong is destroyed by a typhoon that Scarlett summoned, unaware her power was weather control. The city is ruined, but the Five, along with Richard and Han's eldest son Lohan, all escape through a temple door that serves as an interdimensional portal which the Five can use.
By this time, Matthew has met the Librarian, his ancient father, in the mysterious Dreamworld which all the Five go to in their dreams. Matthew doesn't know whether to trust the Librarian, but the man says he is there to protect him and the Five. Matthew is given the book of his life in the Library, which the Librarian says will give him prophetic knowledge, but Matthew refuses to read it.
===Oblivion and death===
All the Five emerge from different doors in the churches and temples around the world, ten years in the future. They almost wish they hadn't, as by this time, the Old Ones have all but won. The world is almost destroyed, electricity is virtually non-existent, technology is all but absent, humanity has reverted to Medieval times, and the planet is on the verge of extinction. The Old Ones rule every evil aspect of the world, causing global wars, genocide, mass murder and giving evil people power for their own pleasure. Matthew almost gives up upon seeing the state of the world. He and Lohan, the Triad son of Han Shung-Tung, emerge in Brazil and see the devastation the floods have caused. Almost all the Brazilians are dead and the ones who survive survive by slavery. Slave gangs are everywhere, so Matthew encourages Lohan to sell him for money. But eventually, the fifth time this happens, they are found out by an evil gangster, who sells them to a gold mine, which intends to work them to death. But Matthew destroys the mine with his supernatural powers, saves the slaves, and him and Lohan flee Brazil.
Matthew's powers are growing all the time, so he controls the entire plane that Lohan is piloting, making him fly it to Antarctica, where the palace of Oblivion is, the evil centre of the Old Ones; Lohan had intended to fly back to Asia, to his family and friends in the Triad. The Old Ones' Lord, Chaos, is waiting for Matthew there. After an argument, Matthew and Lohan fly there. The final battle of humanity and the Old Ones takes place at Antarctica, led by US Navy Commander David Cain, acting chief executive of the World Army, but it is a disaster; all of the soldiers are maimed or massacred. All of humanity flees Oblivion after the slaughter, not wishing to face the demons again.
Matthew stays, because Scott has sent him a message inviting him for a parley, because Scott has joined the Old Ones, against all odds, and he will betray Matthew. Matthew knows all this because in his dreams he returned to the Dreamworld, saw the Librarian, and read the book of his life history, and found out that Scott will betray him. It is his fate to die, so humanity will be saved. Matthew goes to meet Scott, but is betrayed, and held captive by the evil Old Ones, who flay him alive, torture him badly, and beat him. They capture Richard, and force him to watch his friend's execution, but the Old Ones tell Richard they will never kill Matthew, because of the incarnation problem, and they will keep Matthew tortured forever. But Richard takes out the Incan sacrificial knife, invisible to enemy eyes, and stabs Matthew with it, ending his torture and effectively killing him.
However, Matthew's past form, also called Matt, comes back to fight and kill the Old Ones, and this effectively eliminates Matthew's sacrifice. Along with his fellows, he departs for the Dreamworld.
==Personality==
Matthew was wise for his age and he had a very calm personality, he very rarely expressed any anger or emotions. Matthew also never resorted to any physical fights but chose to use his powers or talk. Despite being fifteen, Matthew displayed signs of world-weariness because in the last book he chose to leave the world behind and go off to the Dreamworld forever. He could be a heroic misanthrope, despite his goal to save humanity, he depicted most people as selfish or immoral and never had any close friends apart from the rest of the Gatekeepers and Richard.
==Powers==
Matthew had very advanced powers, magnified by Five when joined by the other four Gatekeepers. Matthew's powers were precognition, which he displayed twice, when he knew his parents would die by drowning, and when he knew his school would be destroyed. Both times the events happened, first time he failed to save his parents because they didn't believe his warnings but the second time he managed to save his school and everyone in it from being destroyed. He also had the power of telekinesis, which only worked when he smelled burning, as his mother burned toast on the morning she died. However, as he chose his destiny, he later no longer needed to smell burning, he could just think of what he wanted to happen and it would. He got so advanced he could merely point and a door would blow up. In the final battle, he caused an earthquake and caused an entire ice shelf to move in Antarctica. Also, when he was killed, all his power was released, and the sky turned crimson, and flames engulfed the world, however, when Matt's original form arrived, the chaos stopped and light returned.
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