As I spread my tawny wings, I heard the others take flight. I jumped straight up and pushed down hard with my wings. Once I was clear of the trees, I took off. Flying as fast as possible, I quickly caught up to David, who was in the front. I caught his eye and at the exact same time we nodded. Then we really poured on the speed. The Erasers were bigger and heavier than us, which is an advantage on the ground. However, in the air it's a different story. They're clumsy, slow, and they obviously haven't had enough time to practice flying techniques. Basically, imagine a bunch of furry, flying cows and that's what the Erasers are like. Now imagine several pixies that dart and zip around the flying cows like it's nothing. That's us. So as you can imagine it wasn't all that hard to ditch the stinking wolves. As soon as we ducked back down in the forest the Erasers started to crash and burn. They couldn't dodge the trees like us and their longer wingspans made it hard to navigate the tightly packed tree trunks without getting a wing ripped off. Ouch. Even though we were safe, we were all still really nervous and shaken up about the Erasers finding us. We needed a plan. Luckily, I had one.

"Alright guys, listen up. I know that was pretty nerve-racking so we're going to do some fun stuff!" I exclaimed, much to the delight of the younger kids.

"Ooh like what?" Mason asked. I eyed the ragged sweatpants and mundane grey shirts that we were all wearing.

"Well, we really need some new clothes so we're gonna go shopping first!" I told him. This got squeals from Jade and Ally and groans from boys. I glared at them and continued.

"Also, we need to get out of here. Not out of this state, out of this country. So after we get some new clothes we'll head to Florida and if you guys are good, then maybe we can go to Disney World or something before we head across to France."

This time, Jade, Mason, and Ally all started screaming loud enough to bust our eardrums.

"Jeezums, guys chill!" David yelled over their screeching, clapping his hands over his ears. They quieted down and Jade and Ally fly over to me.

"Amy! Can we please go shopping here? I will die if I spend another day in these clothes!" Jade sighed dramatically, accompanied by Ally making puppy dog eyes at me. I sighed. It was no use resisting. Nobody can resist the Ally's puppy dog eyes.

"Okay," I told them, "let's go."

David and James groaned loudly but shut up as soon as I glared at them. We all veered down, heading towards the city.

We landed on the outskirts of the city and shrugged the sweatshirts off. Tucking our wings tight against our backs, we slipped our sweatshirts over them.

I examined everyone, making sure that you couldn't see any odd bumps from our wings through the sweatshirts.

"All right guys that should do it. Now we look like normal kids," I nodded.

"Yeah except for the fact that we're all wearing the exact same thing and we look like runaways," James muttered bitterly.

"Shut up," I glared at him. He fell into a moody silence and I shook my head. Do guys despise shopping that much? I mean, geez it's not that bad. Anyways, we started walking and it wasn't long before we started seeing houses, shops, and even people! I know, crazy right? I mean real people! Not wolf-people or hybrids or scientists. Just good, old-fashioned, normal people. Just ahead of us, a short balding man was angrily punching numbers into an ATM. He groaned in exasperation and mumbled something. As he was grabbing his money from the machine he flipped open his phone and listened for a couple minutes. Then he started to yell into the phone and walked away. Ally tugged on my shirt.

"Hey Amy, look. That guy left his card in the ATM," Ally told me. I grabbed the others and we rushed over to the machine. Words scrolled across the screen.

Press one to finish and remove your card or press two to make another transaction, they said. I punched a fist into the air.

"Score!" I grinned. I hit two and more words appeared.

How much would you like to take out? the machine asked.

"A billion dollars!" cried Jade. I laughed.

"Sorry sweetie I don't think he has that much. Let me check the account balance," I said to her. I pushed the button for the account balance and whistled.

"Wow," I managed. David peered out my shoulder and gave me an evil smile.

"Well since he has almost a million freaking dollars, I doubt he'll notice if we 'borrow' about, I don't know… a hundred thousand?"

I put in the numbers and grabbed the money that began spewing out. I snatched the card and we hurried away before somebody noticed the six grimy kids taking a bunch of money from an ATM. After we'd been walking around for a while, we stumbled across one of those beauty salon things. A peppy blond with way too much makeup on was standing outside with some posters.

"Hey!" she said, bounding over to us. "You guys want a makeover? It's really cool and totally free! We'll give you a new outfit, style your hair, and we can do your makeup and give you some free samples! So what do you say?"

Before any of us could get an answer out she beamed and herded us into the shop.