Chosen One teams up with street-savvy thief

The MC (female, at least in my head) is a child of royalty and the Chosen One. She knows it. Her parents know it. Everyone knows it. Because of this, she's been preparing since childhood to fulfill her destiny. Of course, once she goes out to do so, she has no idea what she's doing. She's lived the typical cloistered, privileged life of royalty and has no idea how the world works. She's been told how to fulfill her destiny and save the world or whatever (and hopefully the people who told her knew what they were talking about), but she has no idea how to get there. It takes a street-savvy thief (or some other street urchin type) to teach her otherwise. Meanwhile, the time to complete her task is running out and if she fails, something really bad will happen.

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Uprising of the Sanctuary

A young girl, half human/half (whatever you want, I used a Kirin- a Chinese unicorn), works for a secret organization that protects half breed children from mainstream society. The girl- FMC's job is to find other half breeds, and bring them to the protection of Sanctuary, where they can live out their lives in peace. MMC is a half human/half (something dangerous- I used a manticore), currently being hunted for doing something bad that he couldn't really help. FMC finds and saves him at the last minute, and brings him to Sanctuary. At first, it seems like a perfect place, but MMC can't help but notice that the other residents have an abnormal amount of hate for humans. He quickly realizes the other half breeds are being raised for war, to attack the surrounding peaceful villages. Despite being hunted his entire life, MMC decides this plot must be stopped, but he's going to need FMC's help to do it...and she doesn't believe him.

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Immortals (a 'save the world' plot)

Carey is an immortal being. She thought she was normal her whole life, but one night she was bloody murdered, and two days later, she woke up in her own grave. She spent years traveling all over the globe, until one event which changes the whole world. Carey and a handful of other immortals have to take control to make the world a safe place to live again.

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Return of the Old Gods

Two teenagers become famous overnight when the Old Gods return and choose them as heroes, defenders of the Old Religion. But the old ways have been forgotten, and the Gods are not as kind as legend remembers them.

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Dead Zone ('travel to other world' plot)

C1 is an ordinary man (or woman), who's on his way to visit family when he notices an odd looking man skulking along, apparently marking people. Thinking he's a thief, C1 calls out, and gives chase when the man runs. Catching up, he grabs him. The man screams in surprise, there's a flash of light, and the next thing C1 knows he's no longer at the train/bus station. He's in a crowded room that looks like something out of a fantasy novel, with a bunch of people staring at him expectantly.

It is explained that he's been brought to another world because they need assistance. Not from him particularly, but from someone from his world. This is a magic dependent society. People are innately magical, as is much of the landscape. Many things they rely on for day to day life are operated by magic. There are, however, groups of people that choose to live a different lifestyle. People who have magic based afflictions, people who've been exiled, and people who just don't like magic, that live in dead zones.

There are several of these zones, sizable cities with a fair amount of land, on the outskirts of the kingdom. They were created hundreds of years ago, and have boundaries that mark the area of magical cancellation. Recently, however, one of the zones has started to expand, nulling out magic in an ever increasing radius. Somehow C1 is supposed to help them figure out what's going on and stop the spread before it affects the whole country. All they know is that somehow, someone from C1's world helped create the anti-magic zones, and that his lack of magic is supposed to help somehow.

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Prepared Sacrifice

MCs find a child [in the forest], running for his life, and too young to explain what he's running from. After looking after him for a while, monsters/crazed wild animals attack the village/farm/homestead. That never usually happens, they normally keep away from humans...after fighting them off, MCs find a dying man following the pack, who explains – the child is a prepared sacrifice, to raise an Evil thing into the world. The man stole him away from the evil people, and ran for it. The magic on the child drives the monsters/wild animals to attack. And now the people who want to raise the Evil are after this child, because they need him/her back before the year ends, and the time of sacrifice is over...

So MCs have to take kid through monster infested forest (optional). They reach the capital city, where the monsters/animals wouldn’t follow. And THERE they find out that the sacrifice had to be of royal blood, and what do you know, the prince has been kidnapped...(this bit’s even more optional...wait, it’s all optional, right, do what you like with it) so they spend a little while thinking the kid was royalty, but in fact he was the heir’s decoy. WHICH MEANT, that the authorities in the city were all for just killing the kid so the prophecy couldn’t happen, because royal blood or no, he's the prepared sacrifice now. With one side trying to capture the child, and the other side trying to kill the child, they were in way over their heads.

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peace leads to overpopulation

Peace has ruled the world of Lednik for too long. The gods realize that soon, there won't be enough souls for every human body that will be born. The only way to compensate this would be if more people die, so there will be more souls one can recycle.

Eight of the nine gods meet and work out a plan. They would allow fifteen people to return from the dead and give them one order: Kill as many people as possible. Especially pregnant women, babies and children, because they have a more "pure" soul. To ensure their survival, the gods would give them magical powers. Three are allowed to control fire, another three control water, others control earth, air, and lightning.

The ninth god, however, opposes to this idea. So he decides to descend to the earth and stop the destruction.

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aliens invade through a toll bridge

A boy and his dad go to live in a house on a bridge after his granddad dies (mysteriously). The dad is meant to collect tolls to maintain the bridge and keep it open, but instead lets the money get stolen/disappear somehow. The dad is taken away.

Strange beings contact the boy to tell him it's vital that the bridge is kept open, his dad is a traitor to an ancient cause, and it's now up to him to fix the bridge. The boy befriends 2 others - a weird home-schooled girl whose mother dresses her as a Victorian doll, and a geeky younger boy from school, and a very cool but oddly unpopular older boy who tells him he's also on the mission to keep the bridge open...so that that alien (or magical) beings can come to Earth and make everything all better.

The boy's other friends don't like the cool kid, but he maintains the friendship anyway and begins rebuilding the magical bridge to help the benevolent alien/magical beings.

But then... he realizes he is on the wrong side, that the beings are evil and that his dad was trying to destroy the bridge to keep them out. He now has to try to pretend to be helping the aliens and the evil cool boy, while actually helping his friends the girl and geek to stop the aliens invading.

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The Chosen Ones All Fail

The opening scene is of a Chosen One leading an army into battle against orcs/monsters/whatever. Backed with the certainty of prophecy, the Chosen One strides confidently forward... and is promptly slaughtered. As it turns out, this hapless Chosen One was about the fifth or sixth in a row who came to such a sticky end. Now, the Oracle has chosen a replacement. This replacement realizes that no good will come of being Chosen, and decides not to play along...

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hero too stupid to live - sidekick saves world

I was cheerfully tearing apart a published novel where the main character had a bad case of Too Stupid To Live, and was wondering why his buddies kept hanging around and saving his behind anyway. Then I thought: what about a story where the side kick is the REAL hero?

The challenge was dished out to explain WHY the side kick would stick around, and this is what I came up with.

1) Sidekick was hired by "Hero". Although Hero is a complete moron, Sidekick was paid, and has a code of honor/sense of responsibility that keeps them from just dumping their stupid ass.

2) Younger sibling is determined to act the "Hero". Older siblings tags along lest they get themselves killed.

3) Young male plays the role of "hero" becuase, well, it's expected in his society that the males are the warriors! His girlfriend, actually the more skilled of the two, tags along becuase she loves him and someone has to keep saving him...

4) Chosen "hero" matches the prophecy but has all the common sense of a sheep. The prophecy-maker, feeling somewhat responsible for this poor clod's being sent on a mission that will likely lead to his death, feels compelled to stay with him.

5) Sidekick is very smart, but not charasmatic. He wants to be powerful and awesome and hero-like, but isn't cut out of "hero material". He finds someone who seems to be cut right out of heroic cloth. Nice, everyone loves him, but...his grasp of tactics and common sense is lacking. Sidekick thinks that being the real power behind the hero is a totally okay gig. Could very easily turn dark and sinister from there...

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upper-class demon-hunter

A girl has difficulty adjusting to her first job; in spite of her upper-class upbringing, she has chosen to join the ranks of the demon-hunters who risk their lives battling the plague of monsters which surge through the city every night. The girl's colleagues are certain she'll get herself killed before the week is out, but she survives to prove that she can hold her own. However, when her partner disappears, she begins to realize that the demons are not the simple monsters they appear as, and that a memory from her childhood might hold the key to ending the plague for good.

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chosen one is just a baby, so dad saves the world

There is a little Chosen One who is special but doesn't know it. The world is just waiting for the little Chosen One to save it from the Unimaginable Evil that threatens it. Problem is, the Chosen One was just born and wee little baby isn't about to go saving the world. So his dad has to go on a mission to fight evil wizards/dragons/store clerks with a baby, (and possibly a very disgruntled wife on tow). Or if you have a fondness towards odd bodyguard stories, maybe random blacksmith who was formerly a soldier/knight/something realizes what the world expects of this wee little Chosen One and becomes his guardian on this mission of terror.

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The bloodthirsty aliens from Earth

Aliens invade the planet. Aliens who look a lot like us, but who are much more violent and bloodthirsty, and who are willing to kill anyone and everyone who stands in their way of taking over. The story could follow any number of characters - soldiers defending their planet, rebels who take matters into their own hands, or a band of innocents just trying to survive. In the end, it's revealed that the "aliens" are actually humans from Earth, on a voyage to conquer alien planets.

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