Using the Same Plot as Dozens Before You
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One fine day, on the twenty-first of May, Little Red Riding Hood was on her way to Outer Mongolia. As she was walking past a large blueberry bush, a bald eagle flew out from behind the bush.
The bald eagle spread his majestic wings and flew up to the heavens, or in this case, Mount Olympus. He perched on the throne of Zeus, to await his master's return.
Now the reason Zeus' throne was empty was because he, along with the eleven other Olympian Gods, was currently breakfasting in the dining hall. . In fact, Zeus was about to take a bite out of a lovely red strawberry when a large package fell from the sky. Or, well, from higher in the sky.
The brown paper package, tied up with strings, fell right into the bacon. All conversation between the gods paused, as they turned to stare at the bacon-ruining package.
There was complete silence for a moment, but then-
"What is that?" asked Apollo to the room at large.
"Obviously", replied Athena, "it is a package."
"Yes!" Hermes shouted, "I deduced that one for myself! Now I can be the new God of Wisdom! Hermes, God of Travelers, Merchants, Thieves and Wisdom. Has a nice ring to it."
There was silence for just a moment after this proclamation.
"Cue awkward silence." came from the one and only Apollo. "Well, let's open it."
Hermes and Apollo dived at the thing simultaneously, knocking their heads together and falling into the remaining food, thrashing like eels and yelling at the top of their lungs. While the Gods ruined the rest of breakfast, Hephaestus calmly walked to the package, picked it up and returned to his seat.
He ripped the brown paper off, revealing a set of books. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians." He read. As one, the gods present groaned. Shouts of "Not again!" and "Are you kidding me?" came from the group, minus Apollo and Hermes, who had just managed to get up from the table and hadn't heard Hephaestus.
Zeus stood up at the head of the table and called for silence. Once he had the full attention of all present, he began: "This in the fifth time this month we have had this particular package arrive and I know we are all tired of it. And so, I will be sending out a search party to look for the culprit that has been sending up the same books for years now. Any volunteers?"
Athena looked pensive. "I think the best group would consist of myself, for my wisdom, Hermes, for his talent in stalking undetected, and Artemis, for the hunting skills.
"Yes I believe that will be satisfactory, if Hermes and Artemis agree?"
The gods in question nodded their agreement.
"So it is decided." The King of Gods proclaimed. "You shall set out in two hours and are not to return until the culprit is found."
With that, the Gods filed out of the dining hall and off to their separate duties.
Two hours later, Athena, Hermes and Artemis gathered in the entrance hall of The Palace. They had decided to start at the White House and expand their search from there. Hermes would search the internet and computers, Artemis would hunt down specific individuals that were central to the demigods and mortals and question them, and Athena would use her wisdom to connect the pieces of the puzzle together and discover the solution.
Artemis started with President Obama. She questioned him on anything to do with time travel and futuristic book, but the poor son of Athena knew no more that the Goddess. Then she decided to ask Bill Gates, but to the same end. After questioning several more important politicians and heads of company, she returned to the White House, fairly discouraged, to meet up with her fellow Gods.
Hermes had slightly more luck, but nothing definite. He had searched many central social networks looking for something that would relate to time traveling books, and had found references to something called FanFiction, but dismissed it as unimportant after the arrival of the chocolate fountain at a nearby party.
Athena had been searching popular books and newspapers for clues as to what could be causing the futuristic books to appear so often, and had finally found something. Apparently there was a site where fans wrote stories about Percy Jackson and the Olympians in which books came back to the past and the Gods read them. She couldn't find the name of the site, but hoped one of the others had some luck.
When all three of them had gotten back to the White House and Hermes had been dragged away from the party, they reported their findings; Athena immediately made the connection between this FanFiction site and the stories written by fans. Looks like they had found their culprit, but what Athena didn't understand was how stories written by mortals could affect them.
The trio returned to Olympus to discuss with the others the problem at hand.
Zeus was sitting on his throne waiting for his search party to return when his bald eagle, Fufu came back from his routine sweep of the area with news. He reported increased activity in Central Park with a peculiar portal at its center. He had gone in for a closer look and had seen a mortal dressed in pink standing by the portal and pulling out pages of a book.
This particular piece of information confused Zeus, because the world had recently been saved, and every time that happened, it usually scared off the bad guys for at least one Happily Ever After, but here was someone, obviously up to no good, not half a Happily Ever After later!
He was interrupted in his thought by the arrival of Athena, Hermes and Artemis.
"Do you have news?" He asked in a tone that said quite clearly 'If you don't you're in trouble.'
"Yes, Lord Zeus. We believe it is the fault of a mortal internet site called 'FanFiction' on which mortals write stories about us reading books from the future. We don't know how these stories are transferred to reality, but I'm sure they are."
"FanFiction, you say? Yes I believe you are correct. Fufu has told me of a portal in Central Park where a mortal is pulling what could very well be these stories from it."
"I will go to see." Decided Athena.
Athena went down to central park and transformed into an owl, flying over the area in search of the portal Zeus spoke of. When she finally saw a disturbance in space-time at the center of the park, she headed over, but saw no sign of anyone pulling stories from it.
The Goddess landed next to the portal and wondered what exactly it was, but couldn't think of any use one would have for a random portal. She deduced that she wouldn't find out by standing here, so she stepped into space.
At first, Athena couldn't tell where she was, but as her eyes adjusted, she could make out bright flashes all around her pictures and words floated past at the speed of light, headed down the dark tunnel.
She walked a ways down the passageway, but after five minutes nothing had changed. She had passed several turn-offs leading to other tunnels, but the basic structure didn't change.
When the Goddess tried to flash away, she found she couldn't. The only thing she could do was keep walking.
She deduced that she must be somehow inside the internet, because the pages and words that flashed by were definitely internet sites. Well, now she knew how the stories were getting turned into reality. It must involve a special branch of magic she hadn't heard of, because Athena didn't recognize this spell.
After she had long since gotten tired of this Internet-Tunnel, she suddenly walked straight into someone. She couldn't see who it was, but was pleased there was someone real there, so she didn't really care.
"So this is my internet." Said the voice. "I didn't know it was so dark. It's gone over to the dark side! Noooooo!"
After this, there was no doubt who the voice belonged to.
"Hermes!" Exclaimed Athena. "What are you doing here?"
"Zeus sent me after you had been gone a week. Where have you been, by the way?"
"A week? I've only been here about an hour. Ah yes, of course. Time must travel faster here than in the real world. Do you know how to get out?"
"Not really. I guess we should just go back to the portal." Replied Hermes.
"The portal! How could I not have thought of that? I guess you really should be the God of Wisdom, Hermes."
Together the God and Goddess returned to the portal and flashed to Olympus. They reported to Zeus that the stories came true because someone took them from the internet and released them into reality. The King of Gods then hired Hecate, Goddess of Magic, to close the portal and stop the endless reading. He then, with Athena's recommendation, named Hermes alternate God of Wisdom.
Somewhere in Outer Mongolia:
Little Red Riding Hood was laughing her pants off at the God's attempts to find the reason they were reading books about demigods all the time. She quickly closed the Iris Message, lest they track her with it and continued on her way to wreak havoc in other book worlds, along with her pet eagle, Fufu.
Thank You for reading! Mainly the point of this is to illustrate just how many people use the same plot: Chracters or Gods read The Percy Jackson books. This is not always bad, for example 'The Future in the Past: Battle of the Labyrinth' by Starlight Silvernight is very well done, I recommend it. But if you write almost exactly the same story as everyone else and don't even do it very well, that is just wasting valuable space on the web.
If you want to write this type of story, I recommend you do something creative at least. For example, have the characters read a different book, or even a fanfic! Change some characters personalities a bit. Add an original plot into the story, but do it well.
I'm sorry if I killed anyone with my ridiculous writing style, but I wanted to write this story. If it did any good at all, it has fulfilled its purpose. Review!