Carter Kane

Carter Kane is a magician who Percy Jackson comes across while defending New York from a giant crocodile-like sea monster known as the Son of Sobek. At first glance, Percy assumed Carter was a demigod child of Ares, due to his combat magic. In actuality, Carter's powers come partially from the Egyptian war god Horus.

The Son of Sobek
After the Son of Sobek, an Egyptian sea monster, began terrorizing Long Island, both Carter and Percy Jackson went off to defeat the monster. Carter took his pet griffin, Freak, to go survey the area. After settling down on the ground, Carter was left behind as Freak flew away with his floating boat. Forced to find the monster, Carter went into a lake to start his search. Suddenly, the crocodile came from underwater and swallows Carter whole. Carter planned on using a "word of power" to escape when the crocodile spat him out after it is jabbed in the rear end by Percy. The crocodile soon ran away.

Carter picked himself up and saw Percy in the mud. He noticed Percy's orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt, but was unable to read much more than Camp. As Carter examined the son of Poseidon, who he nicknamed "camper boy," he soon realized that Percy could clearly see his wand and khopesh, something most mortals are unable to see. Despite meeting almost all magicians in the North American nomes, Carter had no idea who this person was, only that everything about him seemed un-Egyptian.

Neither one of them got along well at first, and they both ended uo getting in an argument. First, Percy tried to get Carter to thank him for rescuing him from the crocodile, but Carter was somewhat embarrassed and ended up getting angry at Percy's comments instead. Percy at first assumed Carter owned the monster, and both were wary of thr other one.. Carter is further angered, when Percy asked if he was a son of Ares as he must be a half-blood of some kind, taking offense to the word half-blood, due to his biracial parentage. Both boys were confused by the other's weapon. Carter found Riptide, Percy's Celestial bronze double-edged sword, to be disturbingly un-Egyptian. Percy noticed that Carter's khopesh, and probably also noticed how un-Greek it was.

The argument took a serious turn, when Carter accidentally used the "Fist of Horus" to cause a fist to knock Percy right out of his shoes and into the swamp. Carter instantly rushed over, thinking he might have killed Percy, but was hit in retaliation by a huge wave of water. Furious, Percy lunged at Carter with his sword and Carter was forced to defend himself, not able to attack because of Percy's skills with a sword. During the fight, Percy accused him of being a monster, which Carter said he was not. Percy then decided that he must be an escaped spirit from the Doors of Death on the employ of the goddess Gaea, wondering if the monster was Carter's pet and that was why the magician was looking for it..

The fight came to an end when Carter used some magic rope to tie Percy's sword to his head just as Percy hit his arm, causing Carter to bleed. During the small break, Percy commented that Carter must be a half-blood because if he wasn't, the sword would have passed right through him. This led the demigod to believe that Carter must have once served the Titan Lord Kronos who had now gone rogue. After listening to Percy talk for a bit, Carter realized that Percy couldn't be an Egyptian magician; everything he said was rooted in Greek mythology, which didn't lessen his confusion any. Finally, the two formed a truce and, after introducing themselves, decided to hunt down the monster.

They eventually found the crocodile terrorizing a small cul-de-sac with a few kids spraying the monster with water guns and hitting it with water balloons. Carter saw a gold necklace around the crocodile's neck and told Percy that they needed to remove it to stop the monster, as it couldn't be killed. Percy told Carter to distract the crocodile, while he tried to snatch it. Carter made a large avatar of Horus around himself (which Percy called a giant glowing chicken-man) and attacked the monster. Percy then jumped on the crocodile and tried to unlock the necklace, but couldn't; only magician could perform that task. As Carter's avatar faded and the crocodile crashed into a house, Carter and Percy switched places. while Percy created a massive whirlpool in the center of the cul-de-sac, using the water generated by the crocodile, sweeping the Son of Sobek up in it, Carter managed to make it to the necklace. As Percy began to tire, Carter finally managed to remove it, returning the crocodile to its original form: a baby crocodile.

After the battle, Carter and Percy watched the report of the incident on the news: a freak sewer accident, apparently. The two of them began to wonder if someone specifically was trying to bring them together to cause trouble, agreeing to keep their respective worlds a secret from each other until the time was right. Carter took the necklace and the baby crocodile with him, but placed an enchantment on Percy's hand so that if he ever needed to contact him, all he had to do was say his name. The two parted on good terms, but Carter knew that some day in the middle of the night, he'd wake up to the sound of Percy's calling him.

Trivia

 * Carter Kane is one of the two main characters of The Kane Chronicles, another series by Rick Riordan, but based upon Egyptian mythology, rather than Greco-Roman.
 * At one point in The Son of Sobek, Percy compared Carter to Annabeth Chase. In turn, Carter compared Percy to his sister Sadie Kane.