I must be really losing it, coming up with an awards show for the Inkheart trilogy. But whatever. It must be somewhat interesting if you actually decided to check it out.
The Ink Awards
It was late Tuesday night, and everyone was gathering around Cora Theater. This year, the Cora Theater was hosting the popular awards show, The Ink Awards. Being the least-organized awards show in the history of fictional award shows, voting for The Ink Awards hadn't started yet. The awards still weren't delivered, the security guards had decided to quit at last minute, and the contestants were no where to be seen. Neither were the two hosts
Ali Jordans and Elena Matthews were busy convincing Elena's brother Tommy to read the Inkheart characters out so the award show will actually work. Turns out the gift is available in our world too.
"Tommy, you've done this for the past eight years. Why can't you do it this year?" Ali asked, clearly annoyed.
"I told you, the pay isn't good enough." replied Tommy.
"We can't have The Ink Awards without the characters, can we? How will they accept their awards? Who will voters vote for if, technically, the Inkheart characters don't exist?" said Elena.
"Can't you hire another Reader? Or maybe just redo the entire award show and make it something a bit more realistic." asked Tommy stubbornly.
"It's five minutes until the show airs, no time. And since when was having the Inkheart characters for an awards show un-realistic?" asked Ali, who wasn't the smartest.
"We'll triple your pay, and you can have my room." said Elena to Tommy, hoping her fourteen-year-old brother agrees.
"Deal." agreed Tommy, shaking hands with Elena. Heaving a sigh of relief, Elena passed Inkheart to Tommy. After a few moments, Mo, Meggie, Dustfinger, Elinor, Farid, Capricorn, Basta, Fenoglio, the Adderhead, Roxane, the Piper, Mortola and Orpheus were standing in the middle of Ali's dressing room. Taurey, the show's producer ran into the dressing room at that same moment giving everyone a confused look.
"Where have you all been?" she snapped, "Show starts in…one minute and 23 seconds. Hosts—backstage. Now. Contestants, retreat immediately to your V.I.P. seats before the show starts. Hurry, people! Move, move, move!" Taurey was never in the most optimistic mood before The Ink Awards aired, and it didn't help that nothing ever went right.
Waiting backstage, Elena and Ali played multiple games of rock paper scissors, while people run around, shouting curses and dropping extremely important props. Finally, it was time to make their entrance.
The girls walked onstage, waving to the crowd. Into her microphone, Ali said "Welcome to the 10th annual Ink Awards! The voting has officially started! To vote, you can either vote on fanfiction—Unleash your imagination—through a review, or on our temporary website that is currently not working! So really, your only option is through review."
"This years sponsors are fanfiction (Unleash your imagination), Pink Pigeon, and my parents!" said Elena.
"There will be ten categories this year, whether you like it or not. This includes Best Evil Plan That Didn't Work, Worst Character, Best Villain, Worst Villain, Best Couple, Funniest Character, Most Dramatic Character, Character With Strangest Obsession, Most Sue-ish or Stu-ish Character and Best Overall Character. Two extra categories have just been added specifically for fanfiction (Unleash your imagination) users which include Best Category Author and Best Category Story. Category is Inkheart, if you didn't already realize that."
"Anyone with an account on fanfiction (Unleash your imagination) that has written a story for Inkheart is eligible to win either award."
"I'm your host Elena Matthews."
"And I'm Ali Jordans. The other host." The crowd cheered and clapped for their two favorite hosts ever. This is quite an accomplishment since they both are only fourteen.
"We'll be starting with the category Best Evil Plan That Didn't Work. Eligible to win this award are Capricorn and his plan to unleash the terrible Shadow on us, the Adderheard and his plan to become immortal, Orpheus and his plan to kill Mo and bring back Dustfinger from the dead at the same time and, last but not least, Mortola's plan to kill Meggie so Mo will get very, very sad and she will have revenge on him for killing her son. The last one is very touching, but, ironically, Capricorn isn't dead at the moment. He's actually sitting next to his mother, Mortola. Voting for this category has just started, viewers/readers! Log onto .net (Unleash your imagination) now to cast your vote!"
"We'll be back to present the award right after this commercial break!" said Ali.
Now I need your votes, readers! You can vote whether you have an account or not, anonymous votes will be included. Vote for either Capricorn, the Adderhead, Orpheus or Mortola. Voting ends Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 11:59am. That's in a week. Don't forget to vote and give me your opinion on this story/award show.
