Pollux helped his sister with stepping into the bus. He had one of his arms on her arms, and carried a basket with their cat in it in the other. He paid the driver, and they sat down around the middle of the bus, close to an exit. Sheila put her cane on the floor. 'You do understand that, since we can't use Google Maps because it will attract monsters, I am dependent on you?' Pollux nodded. Oh, I know. Yet, do you usually use Google Maps?' Sheila nodded.
'When both of your parents are immortal, monsters tend to leave you alone, even if you use electric devices.'
The entirety of the first seven minutes of the trip were calm and safe. After that, a few monsters decided to get on the bus and ruïn the peace and quiet for the siblings. Pollux bit on his lip, while getting a small knife out of his bag and into his pocket. He couldn't see what the monsters were, but he did feel the signature monster aura coming off of them. Sheila acted like she tried to get comfortable, but in the process she whispered 'Those are Blemmy's' in her brothers ear. He pinched her arm, to let her know he understood that.
The blemmy's didn't immediately attack. Maybe it was because of Sheila, or they were to nice do it, or they didn't want mortals to see them, or they were afraid of Panther Caesar Velvet T'challa hissing at them like the brave cat that he was. Pollux didn't mind; as long as they didn't act to suspicious, he and Sheila had time to figure out what to do, preferably without seeming suspicious themselves.
'The next stop is New York central station, or otherwise known as a place where you can't set two steps without being attacked by three monsters at once. So I don't think we should get out there,' Pollux said to Sheila. It didn't sound very suspicious, more just like two demigods making plans just outside of the listening ear of other passengers and the bus driver. Whispering would only make the monsters think that they got recognised. 'I say we get of the bus somewhere in the middle of New York. If it is very busy, the monsters won't attack out of fear of scaring mortals and being picked up by the police. I am pretty sure they can hear or see that New York is packed with those two types of humans.' Pollux nodded. 'You're right.'
They got out close to Times Square, which was packed with citizens, and mostly: tourists. The siblings got of the bus and sprinted into the crowd as fast as possible, but out of the corner of his eye Pollux saw the blemmy's leaving the bus and going after them. Luckily, they weren't very fast. Sheila had been walking apart from him, with her cane, but as soon as the blemmy's caught more speed Pollux grabbed her arm and pulled her along, through the crowd of people.
Running in the most crowded place in New York was far from easy, but it was possible. The siblings sprinted past the sky-high shops. At some point, Sheila had taken the lead. She didn't constantly get distracted by flickering billboards everywhere, which was impossible for someone who could see. She felt where most of the other civilians where walking, and Pollux pinched her arm when she was about to step onto a weird tile or any other hinderance.
After about ten minutes, when they reached an underground station, the blemmy's were gone. Apparently, they hadn't been fast enough to keep up with the children of Dionysus sprinting over Times Square. 'There's an Underground station here. We can take it to a place outside of New York, and maybe there is a way to get to South dakota after that.' 'If you say so,' His sister said.
Yet, as said so many times before, the life of a demigod is never peaceful for long. As soon as they had stepped into the metro, Panther started meowing and that immediately alarmed a gorgon that had apparently just been sitting in the metro. She noticed the two demigods. A snake slithered out of the scarf she had tied around her head. She walked towards the demigods, trying to be sneaky. 'Say. Where are you two beautiful young children going today?' She asked. 'Away from here!' Sheila answered, before her brother pulled her out of the metro, over the gab and back onto the platform.
Before the metro doors closed, Pollux swiftly pushed his sister into another cart. 'We don't have a choice. This place is filled with monsters, gods or not,' he told his sister. 'I know,' was all she said. 'I got a metro map while you were buying tickets, by the way. Now you can figure out where we have to go next.' Pollux sighed. 'Why didn't we just buy a plane ticket?'
They got out of the metro, in some strange place where Pollux thought would be a bus that might lead them to South Dakota. He was walking next to Sheila, who was walking on her own, with her cane. Pollux was clutching the basket with Panther Caesar Velvet T'Challa. 'This is almost not worth it. You'll see, as soon as we reach my mother's house she will not want this cat,' He said as they stepped on yet another bus. Sheila looked into the void for a while. 'Maybe. But I suggest we at least buy a plane ticket for tomorrow. Zeus doesn't have a particular hate against us, I think.'
After two more busses, four cans of orange juice, what felt like a billion weird stares, ten chocolate chip cookies, to many to count meows from Panther Caesar Velvet T'Challa, six telchines, one cheerleader squad of girls of which half turned out to be empousai and one stray dog which started to bark uncontrollably as soon as he say the cat, they arrived at the house of Pollux' mom. Sheila sighed deeply, while her brother rang the doorbell. 'I think my sisters are home,' her brother said.
She turned to him. 'I feel betrayed.' Pollux laughed, and hugged her. 'They don't go to Summer camp with me.' 'Yeah, that is important,' Sheila said sarcastically, but she did hug him back.