Connor walked down the footpath, his brown hair swayed in the wind, his hands placed in his hoodie pockets, his footsteps matching the beat of the music

  Connor felt a tug on his shirt

  He turned around and saw no one there, he turned back around and saw Miya Anderson, She was one of his classmates, she has black hair and wore a dark red hoodie along with denim pants

  “Hey, is your name Connor?”

  “Yeah it is, what's up?”

  “Well you left this at school so i tried to give it back to you but when i got to the gate you weren’t there so i knew you couldn’t have gotten far, and hey look i was right”

  Miya presented the EMF reader

  “It was so weird it started beeping when i picked it up”

  “It did, what?”

  Miya looked a little frightened

  “Well yeah it kinda hurt my ears”

  Connor switches on the EMF reader and points it at Miya

  “Hold Still”

  BEEP!

  The first LED on the EMF reader flashed red

  “What does that mean?”

  She looked a little confused on what was happening

  “Well it means you're like me”

  Connor leaned forward, he pulled his eye lid down, his iris split and swirled around in his eye before settling in the centre adjacent to one another, as well the static sound could be heard in Connors ears, except it felt like it had gotten quieter

  “Holy shit that's so weird” Miya reacted

  Connor points the EMF reader at himself the first LED lit up red, the same as it did for Miya

  “We are both EMF level 1”

  “Umm whats an EMF level”

  “Well usually Its an indication of a ghosts presence, but for us i speculate it's how powerful we are when we use our spectre abilities, at least that's what i’ve seemed to call them”

  “A spectre ability that i'm referring to is something like my eyes, do you have anything like that, something that appears or changes allowing you to do strange things”

  Miya thinks for a moment

  “Do you mean something like this”

  Miya fades away becoming fully transparent

  “I can turn invisible” HAHA

  Miya fades back to being visible

  “Yeah something like that… but from what i recall invisibility is a ghost type attribute commonly associated with wraiths, so that shouldn’t be all you can do

  “So can normal people see you? People who don’t have a spectre ability I mean”

  “Nope when i turn invisible nothing can see me, except for maybe cats and dogs”

  “that's good, I’ve realised nobody can see my eyes when they split”

  “So how do you think we got these “Spectre abilities” cause i kinda just woke up one day with mine”

  “I think you have to die in order to gain these abilities, and maybe the cause of death has something to do with what your ability is”

  “After you die!? I haven’t died”

  Miya seems a little shocked at Connors proposal

  “you saw my eyes didn’t you”

  “W-well i guess but i think i would remember if i died”

  Connor thinks for a moment

  “You could be right, but suppose your death was so traumatic that your mind suppressed it, i have heard things where people who suffered a traumatic event weren’t able to remember anything about it”

  “Maybe… but I don’t know if i even have a spectre ability or not”

  HAHA “You can turn invisible, you have a spectre ability, you just haven’t realised what it is yet, i for one realised i can Control technology”

  “That sounds lame as shit”

  “H-hey no it doesn’t, if you haven’t noticed technology is everywhere”, “Any way can we keep walking and talking i kind have someplace to be soon”

  Connor pointed down the footpath

  “Oh really where?”

  They both walk together along the footpath

  “I have a job as a ghost hunter, people previously paid me to just come look around and say there Isn’t a ghost for reassurance, but now i can actually see ghosts, so i can do a better job than before” HAHA

  “That's also why I knew quite a bit about ghosts already”

  “That's so cool!” HAHA “Do you know anymore about ghosts, cause i have like no clue about anything except for a few things”

  “Well i think there are two types of spectres, the regular ghost ones that reside and haunt an area and the ones like us who are conscious and could still be classed as “Alive”, except for a few ghost types i know very little about this”, “What about you?”

  “Apart from the fact that i can turn invisible the only other thing I know is that someone who calmed me down when i first turned invisible, told me if i ever saw a reaper to run”

  “What did he mean by reaper?”

  Connor was intrigued by this new information

  “He said they’re the most dangerous but are rare to come across, you know the ones that are skeletons and carry around scythe” HAHA

  Connor was a little shocked

  “A… Scythe?”

  “Well yeah that is the most commonly associated weapon for a reaper to have isn’t it”

  “I.. i summoned a scythe earlier, when i was fighting that electrical spirit”

  “Then that must mean”

  Miya pointed at Connor

  “You’re a reaper spectre!!”

  Miya looked at what Connor was wearing

  “But there’s nothing skeleton or inherently reaper about you, unless you started wearing that hood of yours up” HAHA

  They both laugh together

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  “You know i did think a little before about what my spectre type was cause i couldn’t do anything that i remember certain ghosts being able to do, but i guess this is why, cause i’ve never heard of a reaper ghost”

  Connor chuckles

  “So i guess that solves my mystery now to try and figure out yours”

  “About my death?”

  “Yep!”

  “As much as i would like to try and figure that out could we maybe try another time as i don’t want to dig up anything at the moment”

  Connor checks his phone, being able to log in without touching it

  “I think we’re getting close to where the ghost is”

  “Really where is it?”

  “Its down at the footbridge”

  They continue to walk together, side by side and talk

  “So how did you die, Connor?”

  “I was electrocuted by falling cables that trapped me, and then ended up collapsing onto the floor, inside an abandoned house”

  “Shit, that must have been painful”

  Connor stares blankly at Miya

  “You have no fucking idea” “It felt like my skin was melting off”

  “Oh my.. Well how about you stop being such a wingie kid about it, i don’t remember mine and if it's traumatic as you said it mustn’t have been that bad” HAHA

  “I’ll have you know it hurt like a mother fucker” Connor Pouted

  HAHA “Sounds like it was fun”

  “Stop giving me shit about it”

  “You know you have quite the Electrifying personality Connor” HAHAHA

  They both walked until they were at the top of the ramp leading down to the river

  “Okay, we’re here”

  “Since you don’t know what your spectre is i don’t want you fighting, the best thing we can hope for at the moment is a superstitious idiot reported that a ghost was here but in reality there isn’t”

  “Weren’t you that superstitious idiot once”

  “No.. i made money off of superstitious idiots”

  “Any way let's go”

  They both walked down the ramp, the sound of running water fills their ears

  “You know a few people have drowned here in the past few months”

  Connor scoped out the surroundings

  “Do they correlate?”

  “Well most people believe ghosts correlate with miss fortune, If a ghost is haunting an area usually deaths or injuries follows”

  “So that's what your job is?”

  “Now it is, previously i kind of just blessed the area, now i can be a little more thorough”

  Connor pulls out his EMF reader out from his bag, he sits his bag closer to the ramp away from the river and the footbridge

  Miya sits on a rock next to Connors bag

  “What kind of spectre could possibly be here?”

  “ I don’t really know, but i know i'll be at a disadvantage as there’s no technology that's useful around here] with my abilities”

  BEEEEEP The EMF readers second LED lights up

  “Heads up its EMF level 2”

  It's most likely going to be worse than what i had to deal with back at school

  Miya seems a large ripple begin to bubble up in the water

  A Blue webbed hand with claws on each finger emerges from the centre of the ripples, and hoists the rest of it self out of the water

  “Connor Watch out!”

  It was to late Connor was already being barged by the spectre, causing him to fly through the air and hit some rocks

  COUGH COUGH “Awh… that fucking hurt”

  Connor limps up off the rock, the spectre stood hunched over at the river bank, it was scaly and blue, with a large mouth with long needle like teeth and two eyes that didn’t seem to have pupils, its head appeared to resemble an angler fish

  Connor stumbles forward and falls to the ground

  “Connor, are you alright!”

  Miya was now standing up, she ran over to him

  “I should be fine just give me a sec’ ”

  Miya turns around, the spectre began to return to the water

  She ran towards the spectre, chains flew around here, on struck the specter in the back of the head causing it to fall into the water

  A slew of bandages wrapped around here eyes, everything was black, but she could see the running water, she could only see the running water

  “Miya, come back quickly!”

  She turned around, everything was still black apart from Connor, he faded out of existence

  “Connor!? Where are you?”

  “I’m right here??”

  He faded back into Miya's vision, she ran towards him before he could fade out

  She put her hand on his shoulder, he faded away but she could still feel his shoulder in her hand

  “I can’t see anything, but i can still feel your shoulder”

  “Well i’d expect that since you have bandages wrapped around your face”

  Connor faded back into her vision, She also place her hands on her face and felt the rough surface of the bandage

  “I can only see something when it makes a sound, I think”

  One of her floating chains hit the floor causing a small bit of the area to become visible, then fade away

  “That falling chain also allowed me to see for a short while”

  “I think you’re using echolocation, or at least some form of audio to visual communication”

  Connor came back to his feet, his iris fragmented as he stood in preparation for the situation

  “You should try and locate that thing, then I fight it, it got me by surprise earlier but now it won’t be able to”

  “Okay Connor i got you” Miya smiled

  The spectre rose out of the water once more, the water running off its body generated enough for Miya to see it

  “Looks like you won’t have to find it Miya”

  The spectre let out a loud screech, for a short while Miya could see everything like normal before it all faded away

  Connor lunges at the creature he held his hand behind him before allowing his scythe to materialise and swing at the spectre

  SLICE

  The spectre deflected the blade with its clawed hands, with the blade only able to scratch its face

  Connor gritted his teeth

  He began to swing his scythe violently at the spectre, hopefully trying to out match its speed

  Miya began to clash her chains on the floor, allowing her to see for a short while

  She walked forward, her chains slamming into the ground

  The spectre dodging Connors attempts at attacks saw that Miya was advancing

  It pulled the scythe out of connors hands and threw it into the water, it disappeared as it sank

  “The fuck?!”

  it then directed its attention to Miya

  It ran towards her, it swung its clawed hand back and attempted a strike

  KACCHING

  Miya used her chains and constricted them into a small wall blocking its attack

  Miyas chains began to slowly wrap around the spectres limbs and neck, Connor came up behind it with his scythe summoned back in his hands

  SLICE, SLICE, SLICE, SLICE, SLICE

  He carved at its exposed limbs, slicing it into several pieces

  “AAAhh thank god, i thought it was gonna come after me once it got rid of my scythe”

  “It mustn’t have thought my chains were threatening” HAHA

  Miyas blindfolds began to fall off her face and disappear, her chains fell and clanged onto the ground before disappearing as well

  “I can see again”

  “Im glad my eyes don’t restrict my vision” HAHA

  “Well my chains help with that”

  “Now come here, i wanna to take a photo”

  She pulls out here phone switching to the camera app, pointing it to the both of them, in front of the dead spectre, the camera didn’t pick up the dead spectre though

  “Not right now”

  Connor blocked his face before Miya could take the photo

  “Why did you cover your face?!”

  “I don’t feel like being in a photo right now, plus i have some blood on me, that would look weird in the photo”

  “I guess you’re right”

  Miya looks at the photo, it was just her, Connor didn’t appear in the photo at all

  “Hey, your not in the photo”

  “What do you mean?”

  “You’re invisible to the camera”

  Miya turned her phone to show Connor

  HAHAHA “So i don’t just manipulate technology, I can determine how I’m seen by it”

  It must have been how I didn’t want to be in the photo

  “Well let's go to the other ghost sighting i needed to investigate”

  “There's another?!”

  “Well yeah, I don’t get paid enough for doing just one”

  “Let's go!”

  Connor and Miya walked back up the ramp leading to the roadside footpath, Connors eyes finally returned to normal as he was finally calm, they both walked together talking and laughing

  She might be a nice friend to have Connor Thought