Vote!!Best idea for story...? Choose between these two for my fantasy story!!!?

Question

This is an idea for my story. It is about a young boy named liafen whose destiny is to rid the world of evil from the Dark Lord Dartherus. He is given a crescent purple symbol when an asteroid crashes into his home. Dartherus kills his parents.To sum things up. His mentor, garreth helps him a long the way. An old wise story teller from their village Torneth. NOW...I want to either have it so that:

A. Garreth's parents were killed by Dark Lord Dartherus on the anniversary of the asteroid. He is given powers by an asteroid radiation. On that day thousands of asteroids were falling from the sky.

B. Garreth and Dartherus used to be friends when they were younger but when they were in the forest they spotted an asteroid stuck in the gground. garreth warns Dartherus to not mess with the asteroid for it may contain dark spirits. Dartherus hacks at it with his axe and there is an explosion. he acquires dark powers, so does garreth but he decides to use them for evil. he asks garreth to join him and when he rwefuses he uses a dark energy blast and sends Garreth ten feet in the other direction. Twisted with power, he runs off into the night.

Answer 1

It wasn't boring at all, I would go with option B!

Answer 2

Both are cliched and over used plots. And a little dull. Sorry.

Answer 3

I'd go with B.  I like the idea of Iiafen's mentor formerly being the antagonist's friend, and then helping him prepare years later for bringing his old friend down.

The "You killed my parents!" plot has been done to death.

Answer 4

Not to be a Simon Cowl, but both plots are a bit overused, I've read to many like it.  But you could change things up a bit.  Instead of an asteroid, make a special group of people that don't exactly belong in the world because they seem different.  

They try to live in the real world and get along until that Dark Lord guy comes along and silently kills people and turns them into zombies that can rid the Earth of the Special unfitting people.  But they fight back.  With classes like Fire Ice Electric.  

Slightly non powerful, but make the main character come in with tons of power.  And add a twist where the army thinks there bad and tries to kill them to.  Good story in my dreams...

Answer 5

It was probably sub-conscious, but this sound like a rip off of Harry Potter. I don't know if you got your inspiration from the series or something, but I can tell you this - the book is not going to sell as you would like it to. I suggest you trash the idea immediately. You need to open your mind and imagination to something that evolves past just black and white good and evil. You'll have to come through a writing Nirvada before that can happen, evidence being by your writing. You seem to have this mind of fantasy, and want to follow "guidelines" - this will STRICTLY LIMIT your creativity. There are no guidelines, but the book will be recognized as a fantasy  

Answer 6

Personally, I like option B.  It seems to be a bit cliche, the whole concept of moving "to the dark side", but would probably be more intriguing as a reader.  This however could be because I'm not sure I fully understand what your objective is in option A...

Good luck!

Answer 7

That was kinda... boring.

It just went in one ear and out the other.

I still can't figure out how to pronounce the names.

:/

sorry.

Answer 8

dulldulldull.

rewrite then ask again.

Answer 9

Both of your ideas are good, but I'm not sure which I like better. A doesn't sound like it's developed enough (but that's no reason to delete it). B, however, has been done before. The whole 'best friends drift apart then one turns evil with a grudge' is a good story line the first time. After that, it loses its edge. Therefore, I choose A. (just add a few things, maybe a nice internal conflict with his powers).