Connor and Miya walked together side by side

  “It looks like we’re almost there”

  He gestured to his phone, with a map shown on its display

  “It says here, the grass won’t stop growing regardless of how much the council mows it”

  Miya peeked at Connors phone over his shoulder

  “So it's a grass spectre”

  “Most likely based on what information we have”

  “I hope its friendly at least” Miya looked towards the ground

  “We can’t really tell until we run into it”

  “I guess so”

  Once they arrived at the park they notices the patchy grass, some parts were overgrown while other parts looked like they haven't grown at all

  “look out for snakes since we’re about to look through long grass” Miya stepped closer to the grass as she spoke

  “Yeah, yeah i know, aren't you glad you can turn invisible, they wouldn't be able to find you if they tried”

  “Snakes find their prey based off their vibrations, sound and smell, so no it wouldn’t help much”

  “Aren't you missed know it all”

  They stepped through the grass being very weary to watch their step

  Rustle Rustle

  The grass moved around they, they saw glimpses of thing small in the bushes

  “Connor what do you think it is”

  “I don’t know, but its small and fast”

  The grass around Connor feet began to wrap around his ankles,

  “Wow~”

  It then hoisted him into the air turning him upside down

  HAHAHA Miya laughed

  “Shut up, just take the EMF”

  Connor hands Miya the EMF reader

  She turns it on and holds it up to the grass that is suspending Connor, it reads EMF level 1

  “Its level one”

  “That's a relief, but we’re also level one”

  A small cattail plant rises from the grass

  The wind blew dividing the blades of grass exposing a small grey cat

  “Oh my god it's a cat!” Miya walked closer towards it

  The cat looked hesitant

  “Wait, Miya, Don’t get to close, it's the spectre”

  The cat nuzzled into Miya's hand diverting its attention from holding Connor causing him to fall

  “Awh!”

  Miya continued to pet the cat, scratching its neck and head

  “It’s so cute”

  Connor lifted himself up his back felt sore and his posture reflected that

  CRACK he cracked his back and neck

  “Why doesn’t the cat fuckin’ flip you upside down”

  “Cause it loves me” hehe

  “No it doesn’t it just want attention”

  Connor leans down into the grass attempting to pat the cat, It hissed at him and whipped his hand away using a blade of grass

  “Why does it let you pat it”

  “I told you, cause it loves me”

  The wind blew faster causing the grass to wave and flow

  “I’m gonna keep it”

  Miya grabs the cat in her arms and lifts it up

  Meow the cat said as it was picked up

  “You can’t be serious, it's a spectre”

  “But it's a kittie”

  Miya nuzzled the cats face with her cheeks, its soft grey fur brushing on her face

  “I guess this jobs done on a technicality”

  “I will name him Cattails”

  “Are you even listening to me”

  SIGH “Let's get going”

  “Fiiine..”

  They slowly made their way out of the overgrown field

  “Hey Connor, have you ever thought about naming your spectre ability?”

  “Not really to be honest”, “But for you i’d wait and see what your main ability is ‘cause surely there's more to you than seeing noise”

  “Wow, you think that highly of me”

  “No, if it's just that its kind of disappointing”

  “Great set the bar high and get disappointed”

  “All i’m saying is that, that's not an ability its a draw back, Anyway if i had to choose a name for my spectre ability it’d be “The Mind Electric” or something similar”

  “Well that name does make a bit of sense”

  Miya was still holding the cat coiled in her arms as they both walked

  “So you’re actually going to take it home?”

  “Yep, he's mine now”

  Meow cattails meowed almost in response to Miya

  “If there’s any trouble with him message me okay”

  Connor displayed his phone number to Miya

  Miya juggled cattails and her phone in her arms

  “Hold on, just show me the screen”

  Connors eyes split, the phone began adding Connors contact information to Miya's phone

  “Creepy, do you usually just add your number to girls' phones?”

  “Nope, usually not forcefully”

  Miya looked bland towards Connor

  “What's that supposed to mean?”

  “Oh wait! That did sound bad, didn’t it”

  MHM Miya nodded her head

  “So umm where's your house”

  “Do you also just ask girls for their address too?”

  “I just mean if something happens”

  “It's fine we’re almost there anyway”

  They both arrive at Miyas house, its nice, well kept flowers grouped around the house as well as bushes on the front lawn

  “Well i guess i’ll see you tomorrow Connor” Miya waved with the cat in her arms

  “See ya” Connor waved back

  He walked away, it was getting late he needed to start heading home

  Once he arrived home he placed all the items in his pockets on his desk

  He pulled out his phone, unlocking it and staring at its camera, the screen displayed his desk, Connor split his eyes and attempted to try something new

  His phone screen started to display itself, the image on the screen was of Connor holding his phone, the point of view seeming to be from Connors perspective. Not only could he control how he was seen on cameras, he could control how the camera could see.

  He placed the phone on his desk still maintaining the connection

  He then went back and sat on his bed

  The feed shut off, the camera went back to displaying how it would normally

  So it seems i can only control it from a certain distance or when i'm touching it

  He pulled his EMF reader from his pocket, it beeped and displayed an EMF level 2

  Hmmm

  Still sitting in the spot that was out of range, Connor concentrates and tries to change the screen on the phone again, It flickered between showing the original camera feed and Connors Point of view

  I might be able to increase how far i can use this, but at the moment i need to be in arms length of the thing i'm trying to manipulate, but i managed to turn invisible on the camera, so i must be able to change how I’m seen at any range

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  Connor stood up one again picking up the phone from his desk

  He Concentrated hard once again with laser focus on his desk on the camera inside the phone

  A small ball appeared on his desk, once connor relaxed his mind it disappeared from the camera

  “So i can control technology with my mind, I can control how a camera sees me, and i can control how and what a camera sees, this isn’t good for combat at all let alone ghost hunting”

  It was getting dark so Connor decided to go to sleep, he got ready and passed out onto his bed

  When it was morning he woke up to a large amount of notifications left from Miya

  He scrolled through the messages all of them being along the lines of “Hey”, “How are you”, “What time are you gonna be at school”, Connor ignored them as he needed to get ready

  He texted Miya as he was walking, and asked if she wanted to meet up on his walk to school

  They both arrived at school and once again Oliver was waiting at the front for Connor

  “Hey, who’s this Connor”

  “This is Miya”

  “Hey~”

  “Miya has been helping me with my job”

  “Well okay fair enough haha, so you two became friends from that?”

  Oliver began to walk up the footpath

  “Yeah i guess so”

  “We actually met because he forgot something at school and i returned it to him, then he asked me if i could help him with something” Miya said teasingly

  “What do you do for work again?” Oliver questioned

  “Well I-”

  “He does ghost hunting” Miya cut Connor off

  HAHA “I guess you're still blessing peoples houses for money then”

  “Yeah, you could say that” HAHA

  Connor whispered to Miya “i wasn’t gonna tell him about that”

  “Oh sorry” Miya whispered back

  The day progressed the same as any other, school was repetitive up until the very end where Connor could finally go to “work”

  Connor, Miya and Oliver walked back down the footpath to get to the school gate together

  “Miya’s gonna help me with work again so see ya”

  “Okay, see you tomorrow Connor”

  Connor and Miya walked out of the gate, Oliver stood there for a minute then walked out of the gate

  Oliver began to follow behind Connor and Miya

  Are they dating and he's too embarrassed to tell me, or is she actually helping with his work

  Oliver wanted to know, i didn’t really care what outcome it was he just wanted to know

  Not to long Connor and Miya arrived at a construction site, Oliver hid around the corner

  Connor spoke to Miya showing his phone

  “The message says there's been a sudden influx of accidents happen here in the past 2 weeks”

  “So that's why they think there’s a spectre here?”

  “I guess”

  Oliver peeks out from the street corner

  “Spectre? What does that mean”

  As Connor and Miya enter the empty construction site Oliver follows behind them hiding in between a pile of metal pipes and a bunch of propane canisters

  “So how do you even get these messages about spectres?”

  “I put listings up online, and people who think there are ghosts in a place message me to remove them, Ghosts commonly cause accidents so and deaths like i said back at the river, and that's why people pay me to remove them”

  RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE

  The ground shook tremendously, causing Miya and Connor to stumble, Oliver was so startled by the sudden noise and vibrations that he fell backwards onto the dirt ground

  “What is that?!” Connors eyes widened

  A large metal spectre emerged from behind a chain linked fence, knocking them over, it stood to half the size of a house, it was wrapped in mechanical parts they seemed to resemble construction vehicles, It was an amalgamation of yellow vehicles resembling a humanoid figure

  “This is gonna be fucked” Miya replied in shock

  Connors eyes split with an ear piercing static that then faded away, Miyas blindfolds wrapped around her eyes along with her chains coiling around her then falling to the ground

  “Try and take out its legs with your chains, I’ll try and cut it into segments”

  Connor immediately summons his scythe into his hand and starts to distract the large mechanical mass

  Miya summoned her chains to constrict the spectres legs, It wrapped around its ankles causing it to stumble for a moment, Its hand shifted and moved into its torso before being replaced with a long drill head

  The spectre slammed its newly formed drill hand down Miya's chains wrapped around the drill as it spun into the ground, They then snapped causing miya to be thrown backwards

  “MIYAA!”

  Connor ran over

  “Are you okay?”

  “Yeah I’m fine, it hurts a little but I should be fine”

  Oliver was trembling at what he saw, a large mechanical thing that looked like it was from a sci-fi movie, and it looked to have injured Miya

  “w-What is that”

  Oliver said under his breath

  Is this what she meant by ghost hunting, and why is Miya wrapped in chains

  Connor helped Miya to her feet, and turned his attention towards the large mechanical mass

  His scythe materialises from his palm, and he lunged toward the spectre attempting to hack at it

  SLICESLICESLICESLICE

  Miya turned transparent to catch her breath

  What can i do-

  Connor was thrown back by the spectre, knocking him to his feet

  The spectres arms revolved, it picked up a girder held it above its head and threw it directly towards Connor

  Connor swung his scythe up into the girder redirecting his course

  The girder plunged into a pile of metal pipe, they scattered across the ground tossing up dust as they rolled

  AAhh~

  The girder had crushed Olivers legs, the sudden crash cause the canisters filled with propane to fall and burst setting fire to the small area around Oliver, the fire slowly blew around the girder causing it to heat up quickly

  AAAHHh~

  Connor turned his head to see Oliver laying in a bed of flames and being crushed by the girder that was previously deflected by him

  “w What… Oliver, i~I reflected that into him”

  Miya turns and sees Oliver

  “Holy shit~”

  Small tears start to flood Connors eyes

  He saw his friends burned body laying in front of his eyes all because he hit the girder away from himself

  “Why… why was he here”

  The slow rumbling footsteps from the Spectre could be heard drawing closer

  “I killed him, I’m the reason he's dead”

  Connor was practically paralyzed, laying on the ground, helpless

  Miya tried attacking the spectre with her chains, but it didn’t even slow it down

  The tumbling of metal pipes could be heard once again, Connor glanced back over towards Oliver's body

  A figure seemed to be emerging from the flames

  The silhouette of the person appeared to stumble as it walked out from the flames

  As the person emerged their green jacket and black jeans became visible, along with orange hair, but it looked like they had a mask attached to their lower jaw with a toothy grin on full display as well as fire erupting from their hands

  GROOOAANN “That fucking hurt”

  It was Oliver, Connor looked back at the girder, Oliver's body was gone

  Oliver massaged his shoulder, he then caught sight of his hand with embers emerging from his palm

  “AAAAHhh~ FF- firrre…”, “Oh… it. doesn’t. hurt.”

  He stared at his palm mesmerised by the flame then looked back at Connor and Miya

  “Hey connor! Hehe”

  “Hey oliver, a little help haha” Connor smiled with teary eyes

  “Oliver!” Miya said whilst still being invisible

  Connor stood up stumbling side to side

  “I don’t think i'm in much shape to fight this thing”

  RUMBLE RUMBLE

  Connor turned his gaze behind him, his eyes widening the mass of mechanical parts was above him ready to slam its foot down onto his

  KRASH

  Oliver appeared next to connor holding its foot just above their heads, he was struggling to stop its force

  RRRrrr “ Miya can you help get Connor a decent distance away”

  Miya appeared behind Connor wrapping his arm around her shoulder and walked him away from the Spectre and Oliver

  “I’m gonna try something!” Oliver exclaimed

  His hand started to burn much more hotter than before, the bottom of the Spectres foot began to melt slowly, it recoiled stepping back

  “How did you know to do that?”

  Connor asked

  “I just guessed”

  “Like what i’m about to do now”

  Oliver snapped his fingers, a small ball of fire springed out of his fingertips as they slammed into his palm, it flew through the sky and landed on the spectres chest

  BOOOOM

  It ignited as it touched its metal shell, melting a majority of its body

  The spectre fell backwards, it attempted to move but its joints jammed and crunched

  Oliver walked closer to it, running his hand across its body, blasting it with intense heat, causing the metal to melt into a small slab on the ground

  He slowly glided his hand along the surface of its body and walking around it eventually melting it into a small cube

  “There we go”

  The flames on Olivers hands disappear along with the mask on his face disappearing

  “Again! How did you know to do that!”

  Connor limped towards Oliver with Miya

  “What? I guessed, if you had fire coming out of your hands wouldn’t you just automatically think of the cool shit you could do with it”

  “Well yeah i guess” Groan “Why do i have the least combat effective ability”

  “I still don’t know mine” Miya buts in

  “Oh yeah….”

  Both Miya and Connor exit their spectre forms

  “Soooo… why the hell were you there?”

  Connor said awkwardly

  “I followed you cause i wanted to see if you two were dating and you were just too embarrassed to tell me”

  HAHAH Miya chuckles

  “What..”

  “Well i see you two were just working together”

  “Ooooo Oliver why don’t you join us” Miya clasped her hands together

  “It couldn’t hurt, in fact it would better to have another Spectre with us”

  “I mean sure, but what's a spectre?”

  “Spectres as i’ve seem to figure out are people who have died and get reincarnated as themselves but have new abilities based on how they died, and then there's those regular ghost things that only Spectres can see”

  “Then how come i could see it before i died, And holy fuck i did die…”

  Connor thinks for a moment

  “Maybe you can see ghosts and spectres for a short while before your death, you couldn’t see my eyes before so it's kind of the only explanation we have”

  “Oh so that's what you were talking about when you asked about your eyes”

  “Hey guys, maybe we should get going, now that our job is done isn’t it kinda of illegal to be on a construction site without permission or a white card”

  “I had a white card but it's probably expired” Oliver moved his gaze to the ground

  “Yeah lets go, I need something to eat anyway”

  They all start to walk away

  “I can cook it” Oliver said jokingly

  “With what you just did, you might end up blowing up half the block”

  HAHAH Connor and Miya laughed

  “I can actually cook, you guys are just blowing it out of proportion”

  “Sure you can” Connor returned

  SIGH “Anyway what is with this whole thing, you get rid of ghosts and all that shit”

  “Yeah, they mostly cause deaths, injuries and just general misfortune so I get paid to get rid of them”

  “and the spectre thing?”

  “Well it appears that when some people die they get resurrected and are able to use extra abilities that were previously inaccessible, then they can see the ghost like creatures”

  “Checks out” hahah “What if i gave it a name”

  “That's exactly what I was thinking” Miya sprung with joy “Connor thought it was stupid”

  “I didn’t say that”, “Besides i already gave it a name”

  Hmm “I think I could call it Firestorm, you know cause of all the fire”

  “I was thinking No lullaby for mine”

  “We don’t even know what your ability is yet, so it's a bit early for you”

  Hehe Miya laughed nervously

  “I can control electronics with my thoughts so mine is called…”

  “The Mind Electric”