10 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Prompts

1. After having a strange dream, you wake up in the future. What do you do?
   
2. Going down a strange trail at your local park, you find yourself in a strange world of magic and are declared as the chosen one to slay a mysterious beast. The beast is your twin. 
   
3. You’ve been having a strange series of dreams, each a small part of a story. One day, you have a night without any dreams. When you wake up, you find yourself as the hero of the story…
   
4. You are forced to become a test subject for a time traveling experiment. You are accidentally sent back in time… to 0 AD.  How do you react?
   
5. You are sent back in time to save the Princes in the Tower.  When you save them, you discover that the present has completely changed…
   
6. You discover that you were an abducted child of a famous historical figure and sent to the present. When investigating your own disappearance, you discover that there is much more than what meets the eye…
   
7. You know that aliens exist. But no one believes you. The aliens offer you a home free of judgment. Will you join them? Or will you expose them for their malicious intents?
   
8. You are abducted by aliens. They tell you that you are the Chosen One, expected to deliver their people from their doom…
   
9. You are chosen for a special space exploration unit, but when you are launched into space, you realize that you are the only human on the ship. The only companions you have are an AI unit, a dog, pig and a strange pink egg…
   
10. Ten years in the future, everyone has chosen to become a cyborg, augmented by the power of technology. When a glitch goes wrong, you discover that you can read the minds of anyone you touch. 
    

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-Jade

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