The Son Of Sobek (2013) In the story, Carter Kane is searching to kill a crocodile monster, the monster being a son of Sobek (Egyptian god of crocodiles). Carter fights the monster, only to get swallowed the monster. Afterwards, Percy Jackson comes along and frees Carter from the crocodile, but Carter and Percy have a fight because they don't know. The Son of Sobek Page 1. Over the last few months, I’d gotten better at storing emergency provisions in the shadow realm—extra weapons, clean clothes, Fruit by the Foot, and chilled six-packs of root beer—but sticking my hand into a magical dimension still felt weird.
Chapter I
CARTER REALLY WASN'T SURE how they got into the small dark room, but his knew it was bad.
Two winters ago, when Carter and his sister, Sadie, defeated Apophis and saved the world, all of there lives became normal. They went to school, they hanged out with friends, and lived life as normal teenagers. Yes, of course they still were in training, and took care of some issues dealing with evil magic, but those were rare events that we're handle quickly and easily.
And this wasn't just him and Sadie. It was all the kids at Brooklyn House. They all had blood of the pharaohs yet there lives weren't so bad..
Carter knew something had to get in the way of it soon.
Maybe that's what had happen? Because he expected so. Probably from he fact that one moment he was in the Brooklyn House, in the library with his girlfriend Zia trying to find a lost penguin, and then, the next thing he knows, right after he blinks, he's laying down on a carpet floor, face first.
It freaked him out at first, causing his to jump to his feet and frantically look around his new surroundings. The room was low lighted, and about the size of an apartment. The open space had two long, white sofas and four chairs all gathered around in a circle with a coffee table in the middle. The carpet was a dark red color, and felt soft under his socks.
Carter then saw a person behind him in a laying position, dark hair covering her face. Zia.
Carter scratched down and saw she was okay. She was just as dazed and confuse as he was. He helped her get to her feet.
'Where are we?' She asked. She scanned the room, she looked mentally prepared to attack anything of danger.
'I'm not sure.' Carter replied. He took her hand in his, and travel on forward to the room. But before he could go far, he heard two loud 'thumps' behind him.
When he turn around, he saw two more body figures on the floor, laying like they just got knocked down onto there bottoms. One of the two was Carter's sister, Sadie Kane, and the other was her boyfriend, Walt, who was the current host of the god of funerals and death, Anubis.
Sadie shook her head and once her blue eyes landed on Carter, they turned into a steel, mean glare and he knew he was in trouble.
'Carter!' She yelled in her British accent. 'Where are we?! Why?! And how badly did you messed up now?!'
'Okay one,' Carter said defensively. 'I don't know Sadie, I'm just as lost as you. And two, what makes you think it's my fault? You mess up just as much as I do! If not more!'
'I know this is your fault because it's plainly written on your face!'
'No it's not, because it's not!'
'Sure it's not! Just like it wasn't your fault when Philip got out to the streets of Brooklyn!'
'I forgot to lock the pool up afterwards! Sorry! For Horus's sake, are you ever going to let me live that down?!'
'No, I'm not!' Sadie shook her head. Okay, he admit, that was a stupid question on his part. Sadie never let him live anything down. 'And don't even get me started of the time y-!'
'Sadie,' Zia cut her off. She nodded her head back towards the other other side of the room. Carter couldn't help but smile at the sight of the curl of hair that hanged behind her ear. He loved that curl.
Carter turn towards the other side of the room, and his eyes got wide.
In front of them stood four other teenagers, two boys and two girls. One of the boys, the older one, about 18, had black, wind blow hair and piercing sea-green eyes. Carter recognized him right away. Percy, that kid he fought with when they faced the son of Sobek two winters back.
Carter squeezed Zia's hand, there secret way of warning the other about bad things that were coming. He felt her look at him with concern but then turn back to the others.
The other boy looked like he was the youngest out of the group, maybe fourteen? He had messy black hair that look like he just rolled out of bed, and it covered a little bit if his dark eyes. They almost looked black that made his pale skin even whiter. He wore dark jean, and a dark red shirt and a black jacket. He looked like the kind of kid you didn't want to mess. He reminded Carter of Anubis when he first saw him, just younger.
One of the girls had blonde hair that was tied back in a ponytail. She was tall and tanned and wore a grey jacket with a orange shirt underneath and jeans. Her eyes were grey like her jacket but they were darker, and also stormy, like she was trying to solve a million questions at once. She stood next to Percy like Zia stood next to him, like they were getting mentally prepared for a fight if there needed to be one.
The other girl was a totally different story. She had short, spiky black hair that framed her sharp features. She had freckles that ran across her cheekbones and her electric blue eyes popped from her eyes. She wore a black, Green Day t-shirt and skinny jeans. She had what seemed to be a tiara on her head and had a bright lively glow to her. She light up the dark room a little.
Carter turn towards Percy to see he was already looking at him with alarm in his eyes. He also knew this wasn't good. This wasn't suppose to happen. Whoever or whatever caused this..
'Well, Hello there.' The black haired girl spoke first. Carter realized then she had similar features to Percy and the other boy. In the way they stood, they way they hold there selves as they glance over him and his friends. Also in the way they looked, all of them having the same shape of their eyes, same noses, and same gentle yet rugged look.
'Hey.' Sadie replied to the girl. She crossed her arms but still gave a small smile that was somewhat friendly looking. 'I guessing you have no idea of any of this either.' She gestured to the whole room.
'Not a clue.' The dark looking boy admitted.
Carter looked around the room for any sign and notices a piece of paper on the table. He let out of Zia's hand (which he really didn't want to do at all) and walked over to the table.
The paper was a letter. He soon read a loud.
Dear Magicians and Demigods,
You are in a unknown location and can not leave till you read the book that is in the drawer of this table. When you finish reading this book, you may leave. Please introduce yourselves to the others, including all y'all special titles, and, please, don't kill anyone. Thank you.
'That's all it says.' Carter reformed. 'It doesn't have the name of the writer.' He said. That worried him greatly.
He looked up to the four strangers and tried to keep his voice under control. 'Hi, I'm Carter. Host of Horus.' He turned back to his friends for there turn. Of course, Sadie was the first to step forward.
'I'm Sadie. Host of Iris.'
'I'm Zia. Host of Ra.'
'I'm Walt. Host to Anubis.'
They all greeted the others. Carter didn't think it was smart to give out last names just yet. He might have known Percy but he didn't know the others. The word 'demigods' started to stir around in his head again. He saw all the confuse and shock looks on there faces.
'Host of whom?' The blonde asked. 'I never heard of those gods before. And what's a host?'
'I think you guys just broke my brain.' The younger said, holding his head.
'That doesn't really take a lot to do.' The black hair girl grumbled. The boy glared at her.
'I'm Percy. Son of Poseidon.' Percy smiled. Probably ending the fight before it happen.'And these out my friends, Nico, the son of Hades, and Thalia, the daughter of Zeus.' He gestured to the two other black haired kids.
'And my girlfriend Annabeth.' He pointed to the blonde. 'The daughter of Athena.' They all smiled, but still were on guard.
Carter then open the drawer to the table and pulled out a paper back book and his heart stopped. On the cover was a picture of him and Percy. Percy was jumping over Carter with his sword drawn, ready to kill. Carter had his own sword out, looking ready to fight Percy. Waves of water surrounded them and Carter guessed it must have been of there little fight in the Long Island Swamp. At the top, the title was printed in red letters 'The Son of Sobek'.
Oh no.. He should have known they would read about this. His hands started to shake and he avoided Percy's eyes on him. But yet he knew that Percy knew.
'Who or what is an Athena?' Sadie asked, just as confused as Carter and the rest of them. Carter has heard of them before and the thought run chills down his spine.
'She's the goddess of-' Annabeth was about to say, but Percy elbow her, telling her not too. She glared at him. 'Never mind.'
'What about we start reading then.' Walt suggested. 'The book looks thin enough to read and finish today.'
'Okay then.' Carter said. He wasn't excited about reading this book, but, like the letter said, they had to to escape and return home. They had no way out if it. 'I'll go first.'
All eight of them settle down on either one of the couches or one of the chairs. Zia sat beside him on one of the couches, and he couldn't help but think of how beautiful she looked in the low light. Her black hair looked glossy and her amber eyes changed colors of chocolate brown, golden hazel, and dark forest green. Now all she needed to do was threaten to kill him, and he be done.
Once he finally looked away from her, he looked to see all of them settle down and ready. Thalia, Nico, Sadie and Walt were in the chairs, which left Percy and his girlfriend Annabeth, in front of them. Great..
Carter open up to the first page and stared to read. 'The Son of Sobek by Rick Riordan.' Carter forced himself to remember that name.
'GETTING EATEN BY A GIANT CROCODILE was bad enough.'
'What?' Nico asked, trying his best to hold back a laugh. Carter tried no to blush and read on.
'The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.'
'Glowing sword?' Annabeth asked, glancing over to her boyfriend who didn't meet her eyes.
'Carter I knew you aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer but getting eaten by an crocodile is really sad.' Sadie said.
'How do you know it was me?' Carter challenged.
'Well, my dear brother, you are the only one who would start a story off that way. That and if I'm not mistaken, that's you and the Percy fellow on the cover.'
Carter really hated his sister some times. He felt his face flush red as everyone lean over to see the cover.
'Percy, is that really you?' Thalia asked. Percy didn't answer, which meant yes.
'So you two know each other?' Zia asked and turned to Carter. He couldn't lie to her. That and his sister was about to kill him anyway, once they finish the book. So why not just spill all his secrets?
'Sorta.' He finally said. 'It'll explain in the book.' He continued reading before anyone could ask more questions.
'Maybe I should introduce myself.
I'm Carter Kane—part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters'
'Woah, wait a minute! Stop the fat lady singing!' Nico called out. 'What did you just say? Egyptian Gods?'
'Yes..' Carter hesitated. The air in the room seemed to sharpen, where moving might cause one to get cut.
'Read on Carter.' Zia whispered to him. He could feel his sister's eyes on him. He glanced towards her and saw her nervous for once. He hated seeing her that way. So he read on.
'who are constantly trying to kill me. Canon multifunction printer k10356 driver. Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them'
'I know how you feel.' Percy spoke for the first time in the reading.
'—but that kind of goes with the territory, since I'm a magician in the House of Life. We're like the police for Ancient Egyptian supernatural forces, making sure they don't cause too much havoc in the modern world.'
All the demigods looked around confused to one another. The Magicians stayed quiet.
'So your not children of the gods?' Annabeth asked.
The magicians looked at her like she was crazy. The gods have kids? Who were mortals?
'Not that we know of..' Sadie answered. Annabeth and the others still looked confused.
'Anyway, on this particular day I was tracking down a rogue monster on Long Island. Our scryers had been sensing magical disturbances in the area for several weeks. Then the local news started reporting that a large creature had been sighted in the ponds and marshes near the Montauk Highway—a creature that was eating the wildlife and scaring the locals. One reporter even called it the Long Island Swamp Monster.'
'That sounds like something off of Scooby-Doo.' Walt stated. That caused a few giggles to appear and make the mood less tense.
'When mortals start raising the alarm, you know it's time to check things out.'
'Yup.' Thalia said, popping the 'p' on the end.
'Normally my sister, Sadie'
Percy looked crazily between the two. 'You two are siblings?' He asked.
'Yes.' Sadie answered.
'But you two look nothing alike.' Nico stated. Thalia smacked him at the back of his head and glared at him dis approvingly. He glared back.
'We get that a lot. I'm grateful for it, knowing I don't look that bad.' Some of the girls laughs as Carter glared at her.
'or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House would've come with me. But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons'
'Cheese demons?' Annabeth asked, holding back a laugh.
'Please, don't even bring that up.' Sadie groaned, remembering the horrible week long session.'I never heard so many annoying cheese jokes in my life.'
'And talk about cutting the cheese.' Walt waved his hand in front of his face.
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'You really don't.' Sadie mumbled.
'I hitched our flying reed boat to Freak, my pet griffin,
Percy's jaw dropped 'Oh up! wait a minute!-'
'You seem to do that a lot.' Zia noted.
'You have a pet Griffin?!' Percy question, ignoring her comment. 'Like the whole body of a lion and wings and head of an eagle?'
'Well not exactly,' Carter rubbed the back of his neck. 'It have a body built similar to a lion's but it's covered in feathers, has the head of a hawk, and wings like a hummingbird.'
Percy's eyes widen and then he turn to pout to Annabeth. 'I want a Griffin.' He whined.
'You already have your own pegsi and a hellhound. I don't want to hear it.' She scowled him like a child. All the teens in the room laughed.
'And we spent the morning buzzing around the South Shore looking for signs of trouble. If you're wondering why I didn't just ride on Freak's back, imagine two hummingbird-like wings beating faster and more powerfully than helicopter blades. Unless you want to get shredded, it's really better to ride in the boat.'
'That would be ideal.' Walt mumbled, but Sadie heard and snickered at his joke.
'Freak had a good nose for magic. After a couple of hours on patrol, he shrieked, 'FREEEAAAK!' and banked hard to the left, circling over a green marshy inlet between two subdivisions.'
'Roller-coaster.' Thalia smiled.
'Well, I see why you named him Freak now, but that still seems like a mean name to the sweet thing.' Zia commented.
'I tried changing his name but he doesn't like any of my other suggestions, he only likes Freak.' Carter explains.
'What where some of your suggestions?'
'Bob, Paul, John, Joe, Joe Bob even.'
Zia raised a brow. 'Really?'
'What? I though they were good.'
'Yeah, how could he ever turn down Joe Bob.' Sadie rolled her eyes. Sarcasm was literally oozing out of her words.
'Down there?' I asked. Freak shivered and squawked, whipping his barbed tail nervously. I couldn't see much below us—just a brown river glittering in the hot summer air, winding through swamp grass and clumps of gnarled trees until it emptied into Moriches Bay. The area looked a bit like the Nile Delta back in Egypt, except here the wetlands were surrounded on both sides by residential neighborhoods with row after row of gray-roofed houses.'
'Who would want to live around a swamp?' Nico asked.
'Swamp people?' Sadie guessed.
'The Long Island Swamp Monster?' Thalia giggled.
'Just to the north, a line of cars inched along the Montauk Highway—vacationers escaping 'the crowds in the city to enjoy the crowds in the Hamptons. If there really was a carnivorous swamp monster below us, I wondered how long it would be before it developed a taste for humans. If that happened…well, it was surrounded by an all-you-can-eat buffet.'
'I see the light now..' Nico awed as Thalia's request finally settle in to him. He got up and bow before her, kissing her feet.
'Okay,' I told Freak. 'Set me down by the riverbank.'
As soon as I stepped out of the boat, Freak screeched and zoomed into the sky, the boat trailing behind him.
'Hey!' I yelled after him, but it was too late.
Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.)'
Sadie glared at Carter but saw Walt nodding in agreement. She raised a brow, challenging him, noting him at he saw her. Walt quickly shook his head no and Sadie smiled. She knew how to control her boyfriend very well.
'I would have to take care of this monster problem, and then whistle for Freak to pick me up once I was done. I opened my backpack and checked my supplies: some enchanted rope, my curved ivory wand, a lump of wax for making a magical shabti figurine, my calligraphy set, and a healing potion my friend Jaz had brewed for me a while back. (She knew that I got hurt a lot.)'
'Again, I know how you feel.' Percy said and everyone nodded along in agreement.
'There was just one more thing I needed. I concentrated and reached into the Duat.'
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'What?' Annabeth asked. What the Hades was a Duat?
'A doowhat?' Percy asked.
'A Duat.' Zia explained. 'It's the spirit world for gods and magic. Magicians usually store stuff in there in case of emergencies.' All the demigods were still confused. Zia signed and waved Carter to go on.
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'Over the last few months, I'd gotten better at storing emergency provisions in the shadow realm—extra weapons, clean clothes, Fruit by the Foot, and chilled six-packs of root beer'
'Oh.' Percy and Nico groan at the same time. 'Root beer..'
'I haven't had root beer in years..' Percy smiled sadly as if he was having fond memories of the tooth-rotting beverage.
'I remember when root beer first can out..' Nico grinned.
'What?!' Sadie asked. Nico looked no more then, what, 15? Maybe 16? There's no way.
Thalia notice Sadie's concern and smacked Nico in the back of the head again. Sadie was starting to like that girl..
'—but sticking my hand into a magical dimension still felt weird, like pushing through layers of cold, heavy curtains. I closed my fingers around the hilt of my sword and pulled it out—a heavy khopesh with a blade curved like a question mark.'
'I've never heard of that kind of weapon before.' Annabeth mused. 'May I see it sometime?'
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'Um, sure.' Carter said. He didn't think that would be smart if his world was to stay out of the others weird, different one. But he should be nice and let her at least have a look, just not touch.'But later on, after the reading.'
'Okay.'
'Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!'
'Sounds like fun.' Walt mumbled. 'I rather watch Scooby-Doo..'
'I waded into the water and immediately sank to my knees. The river bottom felt like congealed stew. With every step, my shoes made such rude noises—suck-plop, suck-plop'
This caused a roar if laughter to boom in the room as Carter turned a dark shade of red.
'—that I was glad my sister Sadie wasn't with me. She never would've stopped laughing.'
'Like now.' Walt snorted as he, Sadie, Percy, and Nico were still on the floor laughing.
'Even worse, making this much noise, I knew I wouldn't be able to sneak up on any monsters.'
'You're just having a bad day, Carter, aren't you?' Zia asked
'Yup.'
'Mosquitoes swarmed me. Suddenly I felt nervous and alone.'
'That usually isn't a good sign.' Percy stated.
'Could be worse, I told myself. I could be studying cheese demons.'
'Couldn't be as bad as that.' Sadie grumbled.
'But I couldn't quite convince myself. In the nearby subdivision, I heard kids shouting and laughing, probably playing some kind of game. I wondered what that would be like—being a normal kid, hanging out with my friends on a summer afternoon.'
'It's sounds like you had a very sad childhood.' Thalia somewhat questioned.
'Nah,' Carter said. 'Not really.'
'The idea was so nice, I got distracted. I didn't notice the ripples in the water until fifty yards ahead of me something broke the surface—a line of leathery, blackish-green bumps.'
Sadie started to shake her head, as Zia took Carter's hand. Neither girls wanted Carter hurt, they just had different ways of showing it.
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'Instantly it submerged again, but I knew what I was dealing with now. I'd seen crocodiles before, and this was a freakishly big one.'
'You dealt with crocodiles before?' Thalia asked.
'Bet he has one for a pet.' Percy quietly pouted. Carter heard him and couldn't help but sheepishly shrug his shoulders.
Percy throw his arms in the air for surrender and yelled 'I give up!' As Annabeth groaned 'Oh Gods..'
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