Hey guys I'm back with my first day's story: Autumn Leaves! Enjoy!
You walk down the sidewalk, hands in your pockets, eyes downcast and shoulders slumped as you contemplate your life. It wasn’t easy, being one of the only three people of your species. You hear your two best friends arguing; you’re not really sure what it’s about this time. Whatever it is, the argument has gotten heated enough that both of them are essentially ignoring you, completely missing that you are feeling … weird. Yeah, that’s the word. Not the other word, the one Jazz keeps throwing around when she thinks you can’t hear her. You sigh, eyes falling even further, to your feet and the sidewalk below them.
Leaves. Brown and red and orange, fallen leaves litter the sidewalk and have been crunching under your feet the entire way, and you hadn’t even noticed. You begin to avoid stepping on them, almost automatically, and you have no idea why, but you feel as though you sympathize with the poor things. They fall from their parent trees and are stepped all over and lost to the wind and rain and rakes, swept away like garbage down the sewers and into trash bags. It’s not easy, being a fallen leaf; you reflect aimlessly. Well, it’s not easy being a fallen anything, when you really think about it.
You gasp as your ghost sense goes off, a shudder of cold washing over your whole body. “Uh, guys!” You interrupt your still arguing friends. “We’ve got company!” You warn as Skulker appears out of nowhere, aiming his newest weapon at your face; and then you are diving towards your friends, white rings flashing quickly as you transform and grab them, intangibility activating just in time to save all three of you from certain death.
You fly up, releasing Sam and Tucker as you do so, and fire back at Skulker, tossing out some witty comments about his apparent lack of skill in hunting, despite his claims of being ‘the Ghost Zone’s greatest hunter.’ This only enrages the robotic ghost, and he aims at you again. You dodge, and the bullets hit the sidewalk, exploding on contact and sending cinders of fallen leaves everywhere. You are suddenly enraged at this action on Skulker’s part, feeling like he had destroyed them just to mock you and before you know it, he’s in the thermos, a bit worse for wear and your shoulder is throbbing where he got in a shot.
You float down to the sidewalk gently and after checking to make sure no one can see you, you transform. You look at Sam and Tucker and they are looking back at you strangely. “What?” you question, but neither of them answer. You huff, annoyed, and turn away. Sam looks at her watch and gasps, exclaiming about being late for a meeting at the Skulk and Lurk, and she runs off. Tucker hesitates for a moment before mumbling some excuse and taking off as well. And you are left standing there alone, looking at a sidewalk littered with autumn leaves.
Subject: Ectober Challenge! 
