Half an hour later, we found ourselves in a candy shop at the mall. It was the one condition Priya put on the trip, that we got so high on sugar she wouldn't be able realize she was dress shopping. Kitty dragged us into a number of very boring shops that had "all our formal needs", where we picked out all that fancy smancy stuff needed for a dance.

(I'm not even going to go into detail since I don't wanna write it and no one would want to read it anyway. I can see Priya nodding vigorously in agreement. All I'm gonna say is that Priya's looks very flamey, Kitty's looks very Preppy, Kurt's look's very blue, Mine looks very midgety, Andy's looks very Leprechaunish, and Jenn and Evan's look very Victorian and I have no idea what Pietro's could be described as.)

Priya, no matter how much sugar was in her bloodstream, refused to let herself be talked into even looking at make up, so instead we went to the good shops.

As we stopped outside the first shop, Priya Jenn and I cackled very menacingly.

Andy cried out in fear "No, not Bath and Body works!" He quickly attempted to cower behind Kitty, which failed twofold. Firstly, since he tried to put his hands on her shoulders, as people usually do when they are cowering, he ended up holding onto nothing, and nearly toppling over. Oh, the fear of leprechaun. Even after this, Kitty couldn't hide him, since she was about five feet tall and Andy was well over six. It was funny to watch nevertheless. Kurt looked slightly concerned as to what would be able to scare Andy so badly. "What's wrong?"

"This is the store that sold *them glitter*." He said in a barely audible whisper. Kurt jumped back about a foot and looked up at the store with a fearful awe. I grabbed his hand and pulled him into the store, leaving Priya and Jenn to drag in Andy (since Kitty obviously wouldn't be able to). The other two guys looked disturbed at the reactions of the other two, but since they had not yet seen the evil workings of the glitter, they went in anyway. (Yet being the key word in this sentence.)

Jenn managed to ripple Andy into the store after a few minutes of fruitlessly trying to drag him. They barred the door so he couldn't leave. Suddenly, a thought struck Andy. "Hey, you can't use this stuff, it's merchandise."

"Silly Andy, haven't you heard of testers?" And with that, the four of us girls sprung on Andy and he was nearly instantly turned into Andy the Sparkly Leprechaun Man. After a few minutes, he finally was able to push the fear out of his mind enough to focus his attention on becoming intangible. We shrugged and turned our attention to the other three guys that were huddled, horrified, in the corner, the obvious fear and disgust at such carnage etched into every feature of their face.

We pounced on Evan, and since he had no natural defense to the glitter, he had no way of escaping. After a few minutes, Jenn cried "I can't find any other visible surface to cover with glitter." So we instead turned to Kurt.

"My poor, poor fur! And it just recovered from last time!" Kurt shrieked girlishly. "*Beth*, not the *tail*!" Evan had crawled over to where Andy was huddled under a display cabinet, and he pulled his knees up close to his chest and rocked back and forth with a tortured look in his eyes. By now all the other customers had fled in terror from the shop and the one sales clerk had went into the back to call the manager to find out what to do. Kurt took this opportunity to start teleporting around the shop, and we took chase. After a few second we got bored and turned to the last unglittered guy. "Kurt's got enough glitter, let's get Pietro!" Priya said.

Pietro zipped around the shop until Jenn started shooting ripples at him. She tripped him as he ran past the shelf full of shiny glitter bottles and ended up breaking several of them in the process. The glitter sprayed all over him, coating him even worse than Evan. That didn't prevent us from trying to put even more on him. Kitty took even more bottles, phased her hand inside and brought out the shining, shimmering liquid within, right over Andy's face. "EEEEE, MY EYES!" He started running around the shop as us girls fell over laughing at the condition of the guys.

The sales clerk came back and told us we had a day long ban from the store. I took it she hadn't noticed all the broken glitter bottles and used the chance to hurry everyone out of the shop.

The next shop we took interest in was Starbucks. Priya got a double mocha latte grande frappicho with whip cream and sprinkles. When she sat down at the table, she poured all of the sugar packeges she could find into her cup. She took one sip and a wide demonic smile crossed her face. Even Pietro looked scared. Jenn, Andy, and I, who had known Priya a lot longer, feared for our lives. Whenever Priya got that look, people were going to dye.

After we had tried to pry the demonic drink out of her clutches, and failed, we discussed where to go next. We decided to just wander around until we found another shop to destroy, er, look at.

We passed a large fountain that was in the process of giving a water show. After a few seconds, we noticed Priya was no longer with us. We searched around for her until Pietro noticed she was staring fixedly at the fountain, mouth open and eyes wide.

"Priya, er, are you OK?" I asked tenatively.

"Pretty."

"Well, that explains things." Andy replied sarcastically.

"Needs something. Dunno what. Maybe…" Priya looked at her hands and a wide grin crossed her face. "Exactly."

"No Priya, there are people here." Evan reminded her. She glared at him.

"Need make pretty!"

"Ok, no more sugar for Priya." The air around Priya's outstretched hands looked distorted and glimmered in an odd sort of way.

Jenn tried to talk some reason into Priya, but of course, when Priya is alive with sugar, nothing can get into her mind except for shiny things and more sugar. And the water reflecting off the marble fountain was very shiny.

"Priya, that's water, you can't light water on fire."

"But its shiny water. And fire goes so well with shiny." Pietro seemed to get an idea and ran off as fast as he could without looking conspicuous.

"You can't just leave us! We might need to restrain her!"

"I'll be right back!" We managed to distract Priya with tick tacs, but obviously more sugar wasn't going to help.

"Mein Gott, she's eaten them all, we're all doomed!" Priya was back to looking at the water in such a way that made Kurt and Andy burst into tears. This made Priya laugh evilly.

"Soon the rest of you will be as red as your hair! Well, unless I make enough flames that they become blue."

But before she could light anything on fire, Pietro appeared, holding a box. He ripped it open and flashed a piece of what was inside before Priya's eyes. It was tinfoil. Priya snatched it away and stared at it, the light it reflected playing on her face. After that, she was docile and we steered her around by her elbows. Every once in a while we had to replace the foil so that it didn't get too crumpled to reflect light, but other than that, things remained peaceful. That is,until we decided to make a stop at Zainy Brainy.