Write a short story of your own. You may decide the genre, setting, characters, tone, and everything else about the story yourself. It might be helpful to put together a plan for your story before you start writing.

Things you may wish to consider before writing include:
-The plot
1. Opening - Start your story with an interesting main character and decide where the story is going to take place.
2. Build up - What is going to happen in your story? Add in some problems or a mystery to solve.
3. Problem - Pick what problem your main character is going to have to overcome. Maybe a dragon or an evil wizard is causing problems in the town?
4. Resolution - How does your character deal with the problem? How will they solve it?
5. Ending - What happens to your character? You could add an unexpected twist!

-Setting
Where and when is your story set? Is it our world, or a fictional world of your own creation? Is it set in the present day, in the past, or in the future?

-Characters
Who are your main and side characters?
What are they like? Their personalities, past, desires, goals, faults, etc.?
Does your story have a villain?

-Conflict(s)
What is the main conflict of your story, i.e. what is the driving force pushing your main character(s) forward? Why are they doing what they are doing?

Themes
What is the story about?
What is its underlying message to the reader?

Your story doesn't need to have all of these things, and it can have aspects not included here, but these questions are a good place to start.

There is no hard character limit, but do keep the story under ten pages long (A4).