Okay, guys. Halloween is happening, and today I'll give you guys a bit scary one-shot called "The MURDER," Bam bam bam!

Story description is pretty much above. Let's start!

It was a pretty normal Halloween night in Danville. While pretty much kids were having 'Trick or Treat' from door to door, and Martin was having a truck to decomission again.

"What's that all about?"

It wasn't raining, but lots of thunders were expected. Inside the house of a kid who borned with bad luck curse for his whole life, and a group of courageous friend along with him, they were staying indoors and watching a horror movie. In a living room, with pretty much just the light from the television upon them. Little did the quartet know – some horror accident was waiting for them... outside.

"I know how you're feeling James. But we're in this house of horror without any equiments, any exits, nothing, ANYTHING!"

"Fear or not, Jessie! We must stay alive, and fight back until the very end."

"Good show!" Melissa commented, as she was lying on the couch.

"I love when James has so much care for Jessie, even with her nasty behavior." Milo remarked. He was the one who had the idea for the movie the gang was watching.

"Yes, Milo. I do... love it," Amanda choppy commented. In the room, she was sitting along with Milo, who convinced her to have a Halloween sleepover with them. She wasn't the girl pretty much fond of Halloweens, and inside the dark room was a horror for her, "But... can you guys at least turn on the light please?"

"The film was rolling the credits. Should be even darker soon," Zack replied. He was also lying on the couch like Melissa except for the different pose. Anyway, his reply didn't help the Hispanic girl... at all. It was backfiring instead.

"Come on guys," Milo chuckled, as he meant stopping them from teasing Amanda, "She's just getting started with Halloween." And the boy turned on the lights in the living room "You shouldn't straight her towards the creeps."

"Psst. Oh, come on. That wasn't even anything. I mean, we've been inside a runaway truck a few weeks ago and it was not that much fun-"

"Melissa, seriously..." Milo interrupted, "Let's just save that for later, okay?"

Zack stepped in, "Melissa, let me." A gentleman, to Amanda, "So, Amanda, how are you feeling about Halloween now?"

She attempted to put a smile, "Well, it's pretty enough, I guess. But hearing you guys talk about it, I feel it hasn't been enough."

"It's okay if you don't want to try, Amanda," Melissa request her to give up, "Depends on you."

Milo had been pretty positive to his girlfriend, "Guys, that just nonsense. Amanda is a sweet and calm girl. She's organized a lot. I'm sure this Halloween is not even a problem to her, right?"

"Yeah... you're right." She lied, didn't want to break Milo's optimistic to her.

Suddenly, the lights actually went out. Or more exactly, a blackout.

Amanda gasped loud, and Melissa commented in the dark, "Oh, blackout in Halloween."

She replied, "Somehow this isn't a surprise to me."

"There! Keep up that spirit!" Milo cheered, and talked to Zack, "Hey, Zack! There are coincidentally four flashlights in my dad's decomissioned truck. Can you go out there and bring those back here?"

"Sounds like Diogee mission. But will do!" Footsteps were heard, as Zack tried to find a way to get outside using the flash light from his mobile phone.

In no time, he had reached the front yard, where the truck was parking.

"Oh, is somebody there?" The man saw the flash light, and he opened his as well, "Zack? Is that you?"

"Yeah, that's me. Milo said he needed me to get four flash lights from the truck."

Martin replied, "Oh, it's right inside. And you can do it, Zack. I gotta run elsewhere. See ya!" He yelled, literally ran to elsewhere.

Zack didn't wave back to him, or did he? We couldn't see anything.

Creepy enough, a pair of lights appeared from his West direction. It was yellow, and it was progressively growing.

"Hmm, who could drive in this kind of situation? And why can't I stop looking at it?"

He tried to reach the truck, but every time he ignored the lights, his head turned 180 degress, like it was attracted to him.

"What do you want though?" He questioned. He used one hand to cover the light.

The attraction didn't stop, but at least the boy wasn't being controlled overall.

He was no words as he reached close to the lights, and it slowly came to him. On his way, he dropped his phone, and the flash light was still on.

What's going on anyway?

Meanwhile, Amanda, Milo and Melissa had been waiting for him for 10 minutes. Each one owned a cellphone, so they turned on the phone's flash light to at least reveal each other's head, in horror.

"Boo! I'm now a hologram in the future!" Melissa played with the two.

Amanda was enjoying it though, "To be honest, this is the most funniest blackout I ever had!"

Milo giggled to her enjoyment, "I'm so glad you did!"

And the fun time was over. Melissa was the first to back to reality, "Okay, where has Zack been? He's gone for like ten minutes. Is taking a couple of flashlights really that long?"

"Yeah, I'm a bit worried too." Milo's face turned to a bit of regret, "I should have been considered more carefully about having Zack getting our flash lights."

Amanda comforted him, "Don't worry, Milo. Zack is strong, and he can complete the mission you gave."

And all of the sudden, the lights came back to the trio's cheer.

"Come on!" Milo directed the girls "Let's go and tell Zack to come in."

"Agree!" Both said in unison.

Zack was getting a bit closer to the car. But suddenly, the attraction stopped. And Zack realized the lights were on. He looked down the street, saw his phone in the middle of the street.

"Oh, little phonsie! Why are you even here anyway?" He picked up and dusted it. Somehow he didn't aware that the car was going to start its engine and crush him over.

He saw the lights got brighter on him. He turned back for a second and saw that darn car he just saw was coming right to him.

"Wait, what?" He screamed for no one. But fortunately, with his fast reflex, he managed to didn't get himself crashed directly.

And unfortunately, he couldn't avoid it on time. The corner of the car smashed hard on Zack's left shoulder and made him fall. He held the hurt part of his body and groaned in pain.

Milo, Amanda and Melissa reached the truck, but no one was there.

"Where could Zack have gone?" Melissa both felt mad and worried for him, "The door didn't have any sign of being opened."

Amanda however, saw footsteps directed her to the West direction, "Look, guys! I saw something."

She grabbed Melissa and Milo's attention. But it was terrified! They took a close examination to it, and spotted the footsteps was in red color.

"Aaah!" Amanda screamed and hugged Milo, didn't want to pay an eye for it, "I'm scared Milo."

"I know. I'm just kinda like you in this situation." Milo comforted her.

And that wasn't all. They saw a car passing through them. A pretty fancy one in black color, and looked like it was washed really careful and daily.

All paid attention to it. Normally it was normal, but the way the car moved was weird: ridiculously slow. The driver wasn't revealed, since the windows were pretty black. But they felt like he or she was watching them closely.

That didn't scare anybody. It increased their worriness even more!

"That was weird from that car," Melissa raised an eyebrow, but then brought her attention to the footsteps, "Come on! We have one choice and it's "following these footsteps here.'"

Melissa guided the two. Amanda could finally let go of Milo and walking behind him.

"Milo?"

"What is it, Amanda?"

"Is this what Halloween looks like?" Amanda asked, "Scaring people to death?"

"That's not necessarily true though... We are just in a horror case in scary films. Murphy's Law has everything." He was able to explain it in a weirdly optimistic way.

They stopped discussing when heard Melissa's gasp. All looked from her direction. They saw a figure with yellow shirt and slightly blue jeans, who was lying down on the ground, looked like he was unconscious.

"Oh no..." She whispered, though the couple could hear her heart from behind. They began to run towards that figure. And it was revealed to be no one else.

"Zack!" Melissa yelled his name, worried as the boy remained unconscious, "Wake up! Wake up! What's wrong with you?!" She kept shaking his body, in attempt to have him awake.

And later, she saw his right hand was holding his left shoulder. She opened it, and there was blood remaining on his shirt. She looked the back of his shoulder, from inside his shirt, and saw some hard scratches on the skin.

"This is not good!" Melissa claimed. Amanda apparently gasped, worried for her friend as well. Milo's face turned more saddened. He held his left hand and felt bad for him, "I'm sorry, Zack! If I were a better friend, I would never let you go for this danger mission!" Tears was falling from his sad eyes, "I'm sorry."

Everyone couldn't hold their tears though. Melissa was the most sad. But that wasn't the time to be sad! They got a hospital to take him.

"Come on, Milo, Amanda! If we want to save Zack," She said, as she was trying to wipe off her tears, "we will have to bring him to the hospital. Is that clear?"

Both the orange-haired boy and the magenta girl nodded. Milo carried him on his shoulder, while the girls were running along with him to the hospial

"Don't worry, Zack! As long as we get you to the doctors, you will be fine in no time! Milo has been fine lots of times!"

Danville Hospital, 9:03 P.M.

"So how is Zack going, Doctor Underwood?" Melissa asked, after she saw Zack's mom come out from his room.

"Please, call me Dr. Zack's mom next time," And to the main point, "The bones from Zack's shoulder aren't serious injured, but there are scratches on the skin and cause the bleeding. I've covered those, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore."

"Thanks, Dr. Zack's mom. Uh... do we have to watch on anything more about him?" Milo questioned the doctor. She replied, "Well, his right leg is hurt a bit, so you may be careful on him about it."

After informed what she needed to, it was the time the mom questioned as well, "Oh, by the way, do you have any idea how Zack got injured like this?"

Milo shook his head in respond, "We have no clue for that. Sorry..."

Melissa pointed out, "But whatever it is, I'm sure it's related to the car we saw just then."

"The car...?" The doctor whispered, as she knew something. But then later, nurse Eugene came up to her and spoke, "Mrs. Underwood, we need you to have a check on this victim."

"Alright..." She replied to the nurse as she walked away, "I'm sorry kids, but it looks like I have another victim to take care of." Eileen then ran away from them, yelled, "Take care of Zack for me!"

"We will!" They waved goodbye to her and said in unision. The trio then entered Zack's room, at least saw him awake.

"Zack!" Melissa was glad to see him okay, ran to him and rounded her arms around his neck for a bit.

"Okay, stop it! You're hurting my shoulder."

"Oh, sorry..."

Amanda asked his condition, showed her worries, "Zack, are you fine now? What happened?"

"Oh, I'm glad you ask. Not like somebody here," referred to Melissa, which she gave a frown for it.

"I'm fine. Just hurt on my left shoulder and my right leg," Zack informed, "Got a weird car hit on me and now I'm like... this."

"A weird car?" Milo raised an eyebrow, confused, "How weird is it?"

"Well, when I was going to get flash lights for you guys," Backstorying, "I saw some weird lights point at me. It was yellow and slowly growing big. I assumed that it was from a car, and it definitely was..."

Milo and the girls nodded, and Zack continued, "But there was something about it: it attracted me. I tried to resist but it kept glowing at me and I just couldn't look anywhere else."

"And then?" Amanda asked. She began to rise the curiosity inside her.

"And then the electricity came on. It stopped attracting me, but I saw my phone in the middle of the street. I came to pick it..." Zack raised the terror, in his voice, "And then... the car started its engine and came towards me!"

Everyone gasped. Especially Amanda, she was too terrified that she couldn't do anything but hide her face to Milo's body. The boy pet her hair up and down, tried to calm her down, "There there, Amanda. It is just a Halloween fright."

Amanda mumbled, still hiding her face, "That is more of a fright, if you ask me."

"So what happened?" Melissa asked.

"I could avoid it and not get myself crashed directly. But it was still able to hit my shoulder and make me fall on the ground."

Zack finished her story. That backstory explained.

Milo cued Amanda to let go of him, spoke to Zack, "I feel sorry for you Zack. I'm a bad friend too. I shouldn't have let you-"

Zack stopped him from saying any apologized words, "Milo, this will never be your fault. I got this because I was careless," And the boyband put a positive smile, "And come on, if it weren't anything bad happen, it wouldn't be Halloween anymore right?"

Melissa punched his arm, meant 'That joke wasn't fun at all,' "You know what Zack? You gave me the creeps from the beginning, and now you're here, smiling like it was nothing."

"Now can't I be positive, miss?" Zack smirked.

"You're not great if you're doing it." Melissa teased him back.

"Oh yeah? You're not being great as well-"

As the two kept joking, Amanda and Milo were smiling from behind.

"Milo, your friends are funny to watch," Amanda commented, only allowed his ears to hear it.

"Yes. Yes they are." He replied.

Milo and Amanda got to the Murphy house. It was pretty late. They were the only one left at the sleepover Milo arranged. Melissa was at the hospital, staying with Zack and didn't let him alone.

"Guess our sleepover is screwed over," Amanda pointed out, a bit disappointed.

"What you're gonna do?" Milo comforted her, "Beside, I've still got you with me."

"Really?" The girl's face turned red. He didn't know what he was talking, didn't he?

"Yeah!" The cinamon roll replied. He surprisingly threw a pillow to the Hispanic girl, much to her off-guard, "CUSHION FIGHT!"

Amanda smirked and joined with him, "You're not getting away with this."

For the rest of the night, they enjoyed their cushion fight. It was fun and they were having a good time with lots of laughters.

And they had played it for half an hour before too tired, and were about to go to sleep.

"Amanda, you know you can sleep at my room, right? I will just lying here on the sofa."

"Yeah, but it was lonely..." Milo nodded to her excuse, understood, "Besides, sleeping with friends is what made a sleepover interesting, right?"

"Right!" He couldn't agree more. Milo yawned but stopped himself, as he realized he was talking to a girl. Amanda giggled.

"I have the floor in front of the TV. You have the sofa. Agree?" He questioned, and Amanda nodded.

They got their sleeping position and goodnight each other.

"Good night, Amanda!"

"Good night, Milo!"

As they had done, they finally slept after a tiring night...

Next morning, a beautiful morning. Milo woke up, groaned "Good morning!" as loud as he could to pretty much everyone who was in the living room, or no one, for the most times.

"Oh, I forgot. Sleepover!"

He then turned his head and looked at Amanda, who was still sleeping. Milo couldn't awe himself from how pretty she was when sleeping, spoke to himself, "Just wait! I'll make cereal for both of us... after I brushed my teeth.

Just as he was able to stand up, his sister came to him, "Milo? Your sleepover is done, right? Can you lend me the sofa, please?"

"Um... can you wait? Amanda hasn't been awake yet."

Sara looked at the sofa, nodded, "Oh, I see... So... I'll make you guys breakfast while you're trying to wake your girlfriend up, okay?"

Milo nodded, but then realized the word his sister had just spoken, "Wait, Sara?! You said she was my girlfriend?"

"Well, yeah," She smirked, "I don't know if you did anything with her last night..."

Milo blushed, fought back, "No way! I mean I like her, but we've never ever crossed the line."

As the sister walked away to make breakfast, Milo politely put hands to her arms, whispered in a sweet tune, "Amanda? Wake up and welcome a whole new delightful day!"

His words were soft enough to reach her, as she woke up and they both ended up looking at each other.

"I guess... you look funnier when you wake up," Milo commented, teased her.

"And your morning welcome is sweet like my mom," Amanda shot back.

"Let's get to the bathroom and brush our teeth, okay?" The boy guided her, and she obeyed to follow him.

"Oh, and we will have cereal, and later we will visit Zack and Melissa."

"You know what, Milo? You're not as bad for a schedule person at all." Amanda gave compliment as a nerd for scheduling.

"I know!"

Back to the hospital, well, Zack was trying to wake the girl up, "Melissa! MELISSA!"

"Huh? What?" She groaned, still tired, and confusedly looked around It was Zack who woke her up, "Zack? Can't you let me have my dream a little bit longer?"

"Can you look at the clock, miss Wake-Up-Late? It's half past nine." The boy's voice turned demanding, "You shouldn't wake up too late. Growing up early, you know."

"You're just like my dad!" The orange-haired girl shouted. That wasn't funny at all, "While I was worrying about you for the whole night, you're here and tell me to wake up early?!"

"Oh, I didn't know that." Zack then felt a bit regret, "I'm sorry, Melissa."

"Your face doesn't look like you're sorry," The girl didn't get over with it, sighed. She could talk to him a bit. She realized she was talking to a victim, so at least, put a smile "Alright, Zack. You stay here while I'm getting hot chocolate cups for both of us. Is that good?"

The boyband just nodded in agree, and let Melissa go out from his room, slammed the door harder than usual.

His thought came up, "Was Melissa really taking care of me the whole night? And she's getting me hot chocolate. While I'm here, teasing her by waking her up, and that wasn't fun at all..."

"I should apologize to her when she gets back."

Melissa was biking to her house and doing what she said. Though she could smile back to him, the girl couldn't still get over with the rudeness Zack gave to her. "I wake up late? What do you want me to do, Zack? Not caring you and wake up early?"

On her way, she tried to hold back her tears, but couldn't stop some drop.

All of the sudden, on the road, she spotted a car scratch on the road. Melissa stopped her bike and took a closer look to it, "Has this been here the whole time? Was there an accident?"

After examined it, she held her head up and couldn't believe her vision: the scratch was a long black path and went straight forward.

"What in the world-" She exclaimed. The sight before her was a sight.

But she didn't have time to look at it. She needed to accomplish her mission.

But again, it was so attractive, herself couldn't resist.

"Guess spending time to look an unbelieveable sight won't hurt anyone," She didn't know she was repeating Zack's mistake last night, "Besides, I come a bit later is a punish he should get for his rudeness."

And Melissa picked the decision of following it. She just left her bike on a field beside the road and walked to it. The scratch was incredibly getting longer, pretty much to the skyline and beyond.

But she didn't look elsewhere. Herself didn't think she could have been meeting an infinitive pathway.

And luckily, she walked for a while, the scratch stopped and her body stopped as well.

From another view she didn't see, a mysterious car was standing in front of her, waiting for action.

In that time, Melissa snapped out and figured that was the end of the trace, shook her head, "I don't know why I was following this for"

She walked backwards, didn't notice that the car was starting its engine, again. She heard something was blowing behind her. She turned her head back, and figured out something was coming right at her.

"It was that car!" A flash thought came to her head. It was charging to her with a speed of motorbike. But luckily, due to her fast reflex, she avoided from being hit directly. But as she ran away from the middle of the street, she tripped her foot over the sidewalk, and fell with her arms and her knees landing hard on the ground, lifting her whole body.

She looked at the car, which was driving from left to right crazily. She could hear something crashed though. As it was fading from her view, she was trying to crawl over to the field next to the sidewalk. Melissa sat down on the grass, saw her arms had scratches and bleeding, and her knees were injured as well.

"I have to make it!" She tried to stand up and walking, but she could feel her knees hurting, and feel... effortless.

Meanwhile, after done eating breakfast. Amanda and Milo were biking together to the hospital. Their expressions were in common: full of excitement.

"Wait...!" Milo commanded so sudden that Amanda was almost falling from her bike.

"Milo? Next time don't do that again! You almost made my heart out-"

"Shhh..." The boy pointed his finger to someone was lying on the grass, "See that girl from the other side of the sidewalk?"

Amanda nodded, as Milo continued, "Let's walk over and see what's happening to her.

And they were walking closer and closer to the target. But... the closer they got to her, the more recognizeable they knew about the girl, and the faster they came to her.

"Melissa!" Milo shouted as he saw his friend, "Melissa! What's happening?"

The girl hardly opened up her eyes, "Milo..." Her voice was weak just the same. He checked her body, and saw blood from her arms and knees.

"Oh no... not this again?"

"Tell me, Melissa. It was that car, right?" Amanda questioned.

And the girl nodded, "I was driving home to get Zack some hot chocolate and this happened..."

"So you're driving home all alone?" Milo looked around, "Where's your bike?"

"I left it further from here..." She stated, as Amanda ran further to look for her bike. Milo, meanwhile, held Melissa onto his back. He was strong enough to carry both his backpack and the girl.

"Milo! Report: her bike was crushed and from what I saw, it was the car who did this."

Milo from worried to getting more seriously mad at this, "Haizz... Nevermind. Amanda, let's go! We gotta bring Melissa back to the Chase house."

Amanda nodded, worried for Melissa but also got tensed up for Milo's dark side: mad and infuriating.

At the Chase house, Richard Chase was asking the two some demanding questions in the living room

"Do you have any idea what you've done to my daughter?!" He asked.

"No, Mr. Chase. We didn't do anything on her." The boy tried to free himself from the man's accuse.

"And what will make me believe that you weren't there for her accident?"

"I am!" Amanda interrupted, bravely, "Mr. Chase, please understand for Milo. We were just biking to the hospital to see Zack, and we saw Melissa was lying on the grass, hurting. I'm the witness."

"Oh, really?" Richard raised an eyebrow, but then sighed in defeat, "Well, consider you've won, Milo. But do you have anything about the cause of the accident?"

"It was a car." Both said in unision.

"A car...?" Richard exclaimed like he knew something.

Suddenly, a loud crash from behind the house was heard, "Dad! I just accidentally broke the dish!" Melissa yelled from her room

"Got it!" Richard yelled back, sighed, "That's my daughter, kid! Hot-headed."

That made Amanda and Milo giggled, "I can hear you!"

"Anyway, you shouldn't be worried about Melissa anymore, 'cause I'm going to take care of her." Richard stated and both nodded, obeyed to the fireman.

After Milo and Amanda left from the Chase house, they managed to get inside Zack's room, inside the hospital.

"So that's what happened to Melissa?" Zack couldn't believe what he just heard. Melissa got the same kind of accident he met last night, "It was all my fault. I shouldn't have been rude to her..."

"What?!" Milo didn't hear what Zack said, and the boyband decided to keep the morning case down, "Nothing!"

"Anyway, Zack, since Melissa had to rest at home, me and Amanda will take care of you today in the hospital. Is that a deal?" Milo requested.

"I couldn't be more delightful," He replied, "But it won't be bothered your free time, will it?"

"Don't you bother that, Zack!" The sunshine boy remarked, "I just called my mom about the situation. The family kinda let me go since... I used to be a hospital guy, you know."

"Yes, and my mom agreed to let me stay with you guys for a day," Amanda stated, much to Milo's astonishment, "She, in fact, was glad to see me being more socalized."

"Amanda, that's great!" Milo pulled out a compliment, and Zack followed, "Milo's right, Amanda! You can stay with us for a day and experience the real Halloween."

"I just realized something:" She began her speech, as her right hand put on Milo's shoulder, referring to him, "Being with this guy everyday is the most Halloween fright."

Zack smiled back to her and nodded, "Riiiight?"

"Anyway, we're gonna have lunch outside first." Milo informed, "We'll catch up with you later."

The boy said, as they both walked away from the room. After closing the door, they began to discuss about accidents, outside his room.

"Well, this is getting weirder, Milo." The Hispanic girl stated.

"Yeah, car crash was way normal, but I didn't expect it to be this level of... weirdness."

Amanda then got his attention, with a question, "Do you think what I'm thinking?"

Milo tilted his head and looked at her, before put a thought, "Could it be?"

Both exclaimed in unision.

"A murder?!"

And that my friend, is the first chapter for the Ink-tober (do I call it right?) story for Milo Murphy's Law. More of the gang, and obviously Amanda is in there as well. And yep, straight to the reveal, this is going to be two chapters long. And you've seen Melissa and Zack in accident, so the rest of the gang will have it in the last chapter. Yep, *evil laughter*

See you guys in next time! (probably in later of October)