The girl jogs down the grassy area at the front of the school, running to reach the bus stop. She begins to slow down just in front of a teacher and in a puffed and tired sigh she says “Hey sir have you seen Connor?”, “Connor who?” He replied “I don’t know his last name, but he's decently tall, brown hair”, “If you’re talking about Connor Smith he walks home most days”, “Well okay thanks” The girl runs out the gate of the school in a rush.

  Connor is walking calmly, his steps matching the BPM of the music filling his ears. He feels a tug on his shirt coming from behind him, he turns around there's no one behind him, it must have been his arm pulling the fabric of his shirt. He turns back around and sees one of his classmates from school, Miya Anderson was her name, she had black hair sporting a Dark red hoodie with denim jeans .“Hello, Connor, is that your name?” she spoke softly, “Yeah it is, whats up?” Connor replied, “Well you left this at school so i tried to return it to you, but when i got to the gate you weren't there so i thought you wouldn’t have gotten far when your walking, and hey look i was right” she holds out the EMF reader in her hands, “It was so weird it started beeping when i picked it up” Connor immediately cuts her off “It did what?” he appeared shocked and scared at the same time, “Yeah it did, it hurt my ears but i found the off switch”, connor switches the EMF reader on and points it at Miya, “Stand still” the EMF beeps and the first LED turns on as it comes close to Miya, “So what does that mean” she stands there in confusion “Well it means your like me” Connor points the EMF at himself it goes off with EMF level 1 being displayed “it seems we are both EMF level 1”, Miya looking even more confused “Whats an EMF level 1”, “It's a reading for ghosts usually a visual indicator of if its present or not, but in this case it could be our capabilities, although it seems you aren't even aware of yours”, Miya thinks for a moment “Oh do you mean this” in an instant she turns invisible “ummm what the fuck!!” Connor was astonished. a slight pause followed as Miya fades back into being visible once more “well yeah stuff like that” He stands in shock “So can normal people not see you?”, “What do you mean normal people?" Miya further questioned, “Well people who don’t have a spectre ability, and Invisibility is commonly associated with wraiths, so like that Electrical spectre before you should have another ability”, “Spectre ability?” she says confused and in slight annoyance, “Well it's an ability you get after you die, that's kinda what i’ve figured out”, “After you die!? I haven't died” she steps back shocked and slightly shaking “Well you see this don’t you?” Connor points to his eye, his Iris and pupils split into red and blue and swirl around for a second before settling, overlapping each other. “Holy Shit that's so weird” Miya laughs at Connor “And by the way i already knew i was a wraith, some other guy who has similar abilities said invisibility is a trait only wraiths have, so have you figured out what you are??”, “i haven’t put much thought into it, to be honest, i haven’t expressed any type specific traits that i recall” Miya buts in for a second “well the guy who told me that I was a wraith also told me a few, Spirit, Phantom, Demon, Wraith, Revenant and reapers. Reapers are the ones you gotta look out for they’re the most dangerous but apparently the most rare, you know the scary skeletons wrapped in robes and have scythes” Connor hesitantly thought “wait a scythe” He recalls when he had summon a scythe out of thin air in order to fend off that Electricity Spirit and how it vanished when he was done with it, “So i think i might be a reaper, based on one what you said” Connor laughed, “Wait really, but you don’t look like a reaper” Miya looks connor up and down noticing the lack of robe and exposed bones. “Well i have summoned a scythe before”, “wow that's cool but scythes are usually ineffective weapons”, “That's exactly what i said” they both laugh together at how ridiculous scythes as weapons are. “Well can we walk and talk a bit more then” Connor points up the footpath signalling to Miya, “Sure, i’d like to learn more about this “Spectre shit” she says while mocking connor. Despite what he had said she still believed she hadn’t died or at the very least cant remember it. Conor and Miya both walk side by side along the footpath down the hill the school was situated on top of. “Okay so, I died when i was covered in electrical cables along with an old TV being next to me at the time, i think there’s a correlation between how i died and what my Spectre ability is” Connor explained with the help of stupid hand gestures that contributed nothing to the understanding of the concept “so how did you die, Miya??”, “I didn’t die”, “Yes you did, you can see my eyes change as well as turn invisible, You’re definitely a Spectre”, “well then i don’t remember how i died, i just woke up one day being able to do this” Miya starts skipping along the same pace as Connor walked, “So death bye cables huh, must have been painful”, Connor stares blankly with a horrified expression on his face “You would not believe how much it hurt, it felt like my skin was melting”, Miya laughed at the description “Well how about you stop being such a wingie kid about it, i don’t remember mine so it mustn't be that bad”, Connors temper comes loose for a second “I'll have you know it hurt like a motherfucker”, “Haha sounds like fun” replied Miya “The man who taught me a few things about these “Spectres” told me there are two types, Spectres: the normal people who have special abilities and Residual Spectres: a fragment that is left behind that can happen when a Regular Spectre is killed, residual spectres are usually responsible for the weird shit that happen, but the guy used the word “Ghost” to describe this but i guess i’ll just go with your name for it”. “So what I fought was a residual spectre then” Connor thought, Connor and Miya continued walking and chatting about an abundance of random topics afterwards that didn’t relate to spectres at all in the slightest. They both come to a crossing and stand in place, “so do you have a way to get home? Or..” he glances over his shoulder towards Miya, “yeah, I live in town so i can walk it's alright” she responded sheepishly, “well i was gonna ask if you wanted to come with me, for a Spectre situation, it just came up although i can’t guarantee your safety hell i can’t even guarantee my own so its okay if you just want to go home”, Miya looks at connor puzzled, “You mean you do this as a job” she tilts her head, “Hahah well yeah i guess a bit”, “if you know what your doing, i'd like to come with” Shes says with slight hesitation, “well the information says its down by the river, and judging by the number of people who have drowned in the past few weeks shows this could be related”.

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  Spectres are a supernatural phenomenon; they are a manifestation of a person's personality and cause of death into one ability and form, Residual spectres are the remnants of a spectre's abilities and form, they don’t speak or show traits of the person that it previously was. Normal people can not see either of these, although some may see abilities when they affect physical objects or properties.

  “We’re here Miya” The sound of water flowing softly fills the air as Connor and miya make their way down the small path leading to a footbridge. Connor pulls out his EMF to start surveying the river and the areas surrounding them, “What spectre could possibly be here” Miya sat on a rock near the edge of the river, “well i know i'll be at a disadvantage, there's no technology around here that's useful for my ability ”, The EMF’s long beep “watch out its EMF level 2, it's most likely gonna be worse than what i had to deal with”, the water begins to ripple violently, Miya looked a bit closer towards the ripples. A hand reaches out and grabs Miya’s face dragging her into the river, she lets out a scream for help before being almost fully submerged by the Spectre. “MIYA!” Connor yells as he runs toward the river bank. Connor scans the river looking for Miya's body, he spots her at the bottom tied to a piece of seagrass, struggling to get out nearly drowning, Connor dives almost immediately swimming down at cutting the seagrass trapping Miya. After swimming back to the surface Miya lay on her back hyperventilating and coughing, “what was that?”, “a residual spectre, it seems to be water based and its EMF two”. Miya felt a shivering feeling run down her spine, she felt cold, it was so damp, something familiar, the feeling of being dragged underwater. A blind fold appears to wrap itself around Miya's eyes along with ropes and chains tied to her limbs. “I can’t see anything, i’ve gone blind”, “no you haven’t you idiot, you have a blind fold on, i think we’ve found out what your spectre is” Miya sat their the chains sprawled out across the floor, she really couldn't see anything anymore, but as Connor spoke she could see only him, the rivers water ran with slight sloshing sounds, she could see that too. “Hey Connor!”, “yeah miya??”, “umm i think i can only see things that make noise”, Connor stands still, miya can no longer see him “you disappeared” Miya said whilst shivering. Connor thinks to himself for a second, what if she could see the spectre when it was underwater, “does your ears feel more sensitive as well?” Connor yells in her direction, “I think so, AND DON’T YELL AT ME!” She covers her ears and replies in anger. “Look at the river see if you can see it under water” She stood up inching towards the river, she sees the spectre laying across the bottom of the river bank, “its body looks like a persons, it's just laying at the bottom of the river”, Connor walked across the bridge before stopping in the centre of it, He pears over the edge, his foot planted on a small beam laying flat on the ground. The water begins to ripple once more, The hand returns appearing from the centre of the ripple, planting itself on the water adjacent to the ripple, The Spectre began hoisting itself out of the water, its skin appeared scaly, its body had fins. The spectre fully emerging from the water was a humanoid fish looking creature, it had sharp teeth and claws ripe for tearing Connors skin off. it stood on the water looking up at Connor, He stared back there was little distance between the bridge and the water. The small area of water where the Spectre stood began to rise until the spectre was eye to eye with connor. “Hi, there” Connor said spitefully with a grin, The spectre did not respond, it stood on the elevated platform of water, it began to step forward walking onto the edge of the bridge, it lets out a low snarl, “ugly shit aren’t you” Connor antagonised the spectre, it stretches its arm far back behind itself and attempts to slash Connor, he steps back narrowly dodging its sharp claws. “That was close” he thought in slight panic, The spectre continues to throw slash after slash attempting to hit Connor, a few hits grazing him forming small cuts on his arms, he reaches his hand to his side his scythe appears in a flurry of red and blue, his eyes divide into red and blue along with the static sound in his ears dulling his hearing for the time being. Connor swings his scythe in a sideways slash, The spectre dodges it by jumping over it. “Hey Miya i could use a little help here”, she is still on the rivers bank watching with a new found sense of wonder, she wanted to help Connor but didn’t know how, she concentrated hard on trying to use her spectre ability, whatever it was. Connor's movements went quiet, no matter what he did his body wouldn’t make any noise, no footsteps, no woosh with each swing of his scythe, no sound of breath coming from his mouth… Still evading the spectre only now making no noise, “Dodge, dodge dodge” he taunted, the spectre was unable to predict his moves off of the sound nw. he swung his scythe slicing the spectres hand, connor rapidly mimics the flurry of swing from the spectre this time parrying its attack with the blade of his scythe and cutting its hands down. His slashing getting deeper and further towards the body of the spectre, finally with one more clean swipe of his blade he severed the spectre's top and lower half. “Hey miya are you alright” Connor yelled from the bridge. “Yeah, I'm fine. But how do i get rid of this blind fold”, Connor walks down meeting back with miya on the river bank, “I’m not to sure, i usually just kind of calm down to get rid of my eyes” connor helps miya to her feet, her blind falls fall to the ground along with her chains release from her arms and legs disappearing entirely, “we should go home now, i'm glad you could join me on this ghost hunt”.