Underdog Stories

Marcy had a bad day. Then the world ended, and it got much, much worse. One minute, Marcy is a "horribly normal" girl living in a cramped apartment building, pining over her cheerful neighbor, Allan. The next, a "System" descends from the stars, turning Earth into a deadly game and its inhabitants into its players. But while others get to be Paladins or Soldiers, the System has a personal vendetta against Marcy. After refusing its rigged choices, Marcy finds herself transformed: Current Height: 4'2" Current Color: Neon Pink Current Class: [Dragon Fodder] Now, as a physics-defying Bunny-folk with a snarky, six-foot sentient greatsword named Wulf, Marcy has to survive a world that literally wants to eat her. To make matters worse, her crush Allan has reappeared... as a brooding, red-haired Half-Dragon who doesn't know whether to kiss her or have her for lunch. With a snarky System mocking her every move and a mysterious "glitch" in the interface giving her illegal advice, Marcy is about to prove that being "Prey" doesn't mean you're on the menu. Sometimes, to save the world, you just have to jump.

4 Years. 4 Years since my life went to hell. I'm KK, yes that KK. The same KK who's the daughter of a NASCAR Champion. The same KK who's the niece of a 2X NASCAR Champion. The same KK who soften NASCAR's most violated driver. The same KK who started a race car when I was only 11 months old. The same KK who won the heart of America just by an old Indianapolis interview that's from 2003. The same KK whose racing career literally started in Power Wheels Drag Racing. Yes you heard me. Power Wheels....Drag Racing. The same KK who got the nickname AK. The same KK who beat the Brothers at their home track in 2012...and I won the race. The same KK who was a junior drift event in Austria with a car nicknamed The Angry Matchbox. The same KK who drag raced my father at Daytona for the win in K&N Pro Series in 2013. The same KK who won the GT class during the 2014 24HRS of Daytona at 14. The same KK that won a rally race with Kyle Busch.....yes that Kyle Busch. The same KK that still has three Chili Bowl records that are still standing to this day. The same KK who stole her father's ride in 2018. The same KK who was the youngest driver in the sports history. 18 years old. The same KK that wreaked her father in 2018 Brickyard 400. I'm that KK.... Everyone tends to forget all the records I have broken through out my life, but that doesn't matter. Instead I am famous for two things: Stealing my father's ride in 2018. Wreaking my father in the 2018 Brickyard 400. And that's it... What else would I be remembered for? Winning the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series title with an open car team who originally left the sport back in '21? 
Yeah right.....NASCAR will never have a female driver that can compete in a male dominate sport. I might have been the closes, but that doesn't mean anything to anyone. I'm Annistan, and this is my story.

Moe Yan was supposed to fail. Two strikes on his record. A commodore who wanted him gone. Special Forces training designed to break him. He passed anyway. Then a wolf came - an F-Rank Elite monster. He killed it with a bronze dagger and a stubborn refusal to die. The military called it PTSD. The doctors called it a delusion. But the gods called him back to the white space, where they gave him a blessing before he even knew what a hunter was. Now he carries his grandfather's blade. A D-Rank hunter named Thant Zin teaches him the truth. And together, they fight dungeons that grow stronger every day. This is his last universe. The gods saved it for him. And he will not break. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This novel contains 12 arcs. I have had this in my mind for a long time. English is not my first language, and I lack time, so I put this off again and again. Now, with the help of Deepseek and Grammarly, I can finally write it. I try my best to give the reader good storytelling. Feel free to criticize and point out the plot holes.

Willow has been confined throughout her entire existence-tormented by her own psyche and imprisoned within a contract that she cannot break. All Willow has ever known is survival. However, the arrival of an enigmatic stranger causes all of that to change, drawing Willow out of the realm that she has always been a part of and into a new dimension-one rife with lost magic and unexplained wonders, but also strangely familiar... Willows' search for answers raises a single question she cannot deny: Is Willow entering a new realm... or awakening an old one that lies dormant within her? I'm always honing my craft, and your thoughts and reactions truly mean a lot to me 💛 Current artwork is placeholder. I'd love to collaborate with an artist to bring this world to life. If you're interested, I'd genuinely love to connect 🥰

In a world where powers appear at four years old, Izuku Midoriya was born with nothing. No quirk. No future. No place among heroes. For years he watched from the sidelines as legends rose-especially Katsuki Bakugo, the boy destined to shine brighter than everyone else. But fate makes mistakes. At fourteen, when the world had already decided what he was... something finally awakens. Too weak. Too late. Too impossible. Yet somehow, against every rule of hero society, Midoriya passes the U.A. High School entrance exam. Now surrounded by monsters of talent, legends like All Might, and shadows like All For One, Izuku must prove one thing: Even a flower that blooms too late can still change the world.

In the year 2033, the world did not end in fire or silence... but in recalibration. Electricity failed without warning. Cities went dark in an instant, not because they were destroyed-but because something deeper rewrote the rules that held them together. Steel still stands. Roads still exist. Humanity still breathes. But the world no longer behaves the same way twice. When the sky "aligned," Earth collided with something older... something vast... something that had never been meant to share the same space. Entire civilizations emerged from the fractures of reality-armored, towering, and bound to a system of power that does not resemble science or myth, but something in between. Weapons now hum with engineered force drawn from rare living ores. Shields bend pressure itself. Crossroads of ruined cities and foreign kingdoms form borders no map can explain. And across it all, humanity-fragmented, unprepared, but unwilling to vanish-learns to survive in a world where strength is no longer measured by numbers alone. This is not a story about chosen heroes. It is about those who refuse to stop moving when everything else demands they kneel. In a world where logic breaks before impact and survival depends on instinct more than understanding, every step forward comes at a cost... and every encounter leaves something changed forever. Not everything that falls is defeated. Not everything that survives is safe. And not everything that adapts... remains human. Welcome to OREBOUND: THE SHATTERED REALMS.

The story follows Maya Vance, a brilliant scholarship student at Crestwood Academy, whose life is shattered in a single night. After being lured to a cliff side during a high society gala, she is pushed by the school's ''Golden Girl'', Bianca Sterling. To cover her tracks, Bianca uses her family's massive influence to frame the incident as a suicide attempt, landing Maya in a high security ''recovery'' ward where her pleas for the truth are treated as symptoms of a mental breakdown. Gilded Thorns captures exactly who Bianca is 'someone who looks beautiful and expensive on the outside but is designed to draw blood and hurt anyone who gets too close'

THRYNVEIL - Volume 1 They were never meant to be heroes. Four strangers. Four broken pasts. One decision that would change everything. When a brutal world rewards cruelty and buries the weak, Jojo, Itoshi, Aleena, and Evelyn choose a path no one dares to walk-to fight back. But rebellion has a cost. As their journey begins, a single moment shatters everything- Aleena collapses, her life slipping away... And the only one who can save her is the girl who escaped hell. Evelyn. To save her friend, she must return to the place she once fled... A kingdom built on chains, ruled by a king who doesn't forgive. This time, she won't run. She'll surrender. But some bonds can't be broken... And some people don't know how to give up. "We're doomed... so what?" In a world that crushes hope, four souls rise- Not because they can win... But because they refuse to lose.

Book Blurb Echoes of the Shattered World: Inheritance of the dead. The world survived the apocalypse. That doesn't mean it healed. Long ago, a desperate act saved the River of Souls and shattered reality in the process. The world splintered into broken realms, mana bled into the land through ancient wounds, and every power meant to protect humanity began demanding a terrible price. Paladins guard the mana wells and fight horrors no one else can survive. Cities praise them as heroes... and quietly resent their control. Movements like Bright Step rise, promising freedom and self-defense for ordinary people, unaware that darker forces are already twisting that hope into something dangerous. Between them stand the Netherborn, poisoned by a broken world and desperate to survive it. Into this tension is born Kai a boy who was never meant to matter. In a world where every person is bound by invisible soul strings that connect them to power, memory, and consequence, Kai's soul is different. Fractured and sealed, it resonates with echoes that should be gone. He doesn't command magic. He doesn't bind the dead. He connects to souls from the past, to unfinished lives, to voices history tried to bury. As soul beasts emerge from failing boundaries and factions push the world closer to another collapse, Kai is drawn into a conflict that wants to use him, fear him, or erase him. He is not a chosen savior. He is a living anomaly proof that the world still remembers what it lost. But connection comes at a cost. To heal a broken world, Kai may have to give up pieces of himself his certainty, his identity, his future. And the deeper he reaches into the past, the more he must decide: Can the world be healed without repeating the sins that shattered it... or does saving it require becoming something he can never undo?

At Apex Institute, the world's most elite athletic academy, talent means nothing without results. Every student is ranked. Every match changes everything. Every month, the bottom ten are erased from the future they fought for. When freshman Kaito Arashi enters the academy as an overlooked low-rank nobody, he quickly learns this school isn't about teamwork-it's about survival. To rise, he'll have to defeat monsters known as the Apex Ten, uncover the truth behind the ranking system, and prove that instinct can shatter perfection. In a school where losing means your dream dies... How far would you go to become number one?

Davis Davila. Loner. Gamer. Loser. He knows everything about almost every game in existence. But when the school bullies steal his prized Game Boy, Davis gets a reality check. Getting it back won't be easy. Especially when your social stats have always been critically low.

A boy got bullied so unique right guys ?

My name is Simon, and I have a simple 3-step plan for life: 1. Stay hydrated by drinking liquids other than coffee (and blood). 2. Stay alive as long as possible. 3. Die of natural causes (ideally happily without pain in a very comfy bed). But the universe has other plans. Between billionaires offering me Bentleys, "Chosen Ones" using me as a human shield, and a literal vampire hierarchy that seems to think I'm a gourmet snack, my hobo-core lifestyle is under siege. I neither have superpowers nor a tragic backstory (unless you count my bank balance). All I have is a frying pan, a high-limit credit card that isn't mine, and a level of apathy so thick it might actually be a physical barrier. Welcome to my life. I'm just an NPC, and I'm really, really trying not to die in the prologue.

Suki Jeong is an expert at only two things: failing math class and worrying about her sister's cancer. Her life in L.A. is quiet, safe, and completely ordinary-until a flyer at her local Asian mart offers a desperate way out. An audition for K-pop trainees. 🎤 Suki has zero talent. Like, actually none. She can't dance, her singing is strictly a solo shower act, and she knows nothing about idols. But with a one-way ticket to Seoul and the help of her mysterious neighbor, Auntie Jing, she's diving headfirst into the world's most brutal industry. Between a cold CEO, grueling dance challenges, and fierce rivals who want her gone-not to mention an enemy who's becoming a crush she definitely should not trust-much less fall for-can someone this ordinary survive the stage? But she isn't doing this for fame. She's doing it for Ari... right? No training. No backup plan. Just a heart full of recklessness and a desperate need to win. Suki is going to scrape her way to the top-or break trying. CW: This story contains themes of illness (cancer) and hospital settings. Please read with care. Copyright: © 2026 by HalfMoon_Huntress. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the author. ⚠️Disclaimer⚠️: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or real events is purely coincidental.

In the Accorded Realms, magic isn't free. Every spell leaves a receipt. Every life has a price. Thirteen-year-old Jasper Darkmoor knows his father died in an accident at the Scrivener's Guild. What he doesn't know is that "accident" is a lie-and the truth is buried in a black glass box in his attic. When Jasper opens the box, red ink floats in the air. It shows him the real record: his father's life was used to balance a hidden debt for the immortal House Aethel. A rounding error. A line item. A murder no one noticed. Now Jasper sees what others can't-the ledger of stolen lives, the crimson marks of unpaid debts crawling toward his heart. Hunted by Void Auditors and hunted by the golden lords of the Spire, he escapes to the only place that might protect him. The Knotted Ledger Academy. A living school of petrified trees, whispering books, and secrets sealed for five hundred years. There, Jasper discovers he is Unbound-one of the rare few who can trace hidden debts back to their source. His only allies: a disgraced heiress who severed her own bloodline, and a half-folk boy whose father was collected for less than a single Ore. The Midwinter Conclave approaches. Lord Elian Aethel will perform his Purification Rite. And Jasper must decide: expose the lie, or pay the ultimate debt with his own life. Every truth demands a cost. Every debt leaves a mark.

In a world where strength decides your worth... pain is the only truth that never lies. Hikari Sato was once a rising star in the world of martial arts-until one brutal defeat shattered her dojo, her confidence, and her future. Now, in the shadows of underground arenas where fighters unleash the very essence of their souls, she steps back into a world that already left her behind. But Hikari carries something different. Something unbreakable. In the Kōra Arenas, fighters awaken their "Spirit Forms"-manifestations of power fueled by will, rage, and desire. Some burn like fire. Others strike like lightning. Hikari endures. With every blow she takes, her spirit hardens... her body adapts... her resolve sharpens. As she climbs through ruthless opponents, fierce rivals, and monsters disguised as champions, Hikari must confront the one who destroyed everything she loved-Raiden Kurogami, the Thunder Tyrant. A man who believes the weak deserve to be erased. But Hikari isn't here to prove she's strong. She's here to prove she can't be broken. Fueled by pain, driven by honor, and guided by the heart of karate, her journey will test the limits of body, mind, and soul. Because sometimes... the strongest warriors aren't the ones who never fall- they're the ones who always stand back up.

Everyone thought I was weak. Too quiet. Too soft. Too easy to break. They laughed. They pushed. They ignored. What they didn't know? I was never weak. I was just waiting. And when the truth comes out, they won't be ready for the girl they created.

In a world obsessed with egoist strikers and brute physical force, one boy decides to dominate the game without even needing to run. Carson, California. The beating heart of North American soccer. To most, Mark Howard is just the "lucky son": the heir to a British supermodel and David Howard, a legendary goalkeeper on the brink of retirement. Rich, talented, and bored, Mark spent 13 years ignoring his father's trophies, preferring music to the roar of stadiums. But on a stormy afternoon in 2022, destiny changed the score. While watching a forbidden archive of the 2006 Champions League, Mark witnesses the impossible: Jonas Almeida, the "Brazilian Maestro," destroying Royal Madrid's perfect defense with a single touch of pure art. In that moment, the sky tore open, and Mark's hazel eyes burned into an Electric Yellow. The "Shadow Maestro" has awakened. Now, Mark has a problem: he is nearly 14 years old and has never trained a single day in his life. He is years behind the prodigies of the elite academies. With no physique, no stamina, and no basic technique, he enters the cruel world of competitive soccer armed with only one thing: a supernatural Game Vision that allows him to see the field like an orchestra. While his rivals chase the ball, Mark Howard plans how to make it obey. From a clumsy novice to a tyrannical conductor, follow the rise of the boy who doesn't just want to score goals... he wants to control time, space, and the will of everyone on the pitch. The symphony of chaos is about to begin.

In a world of siddhi(cosmic energy), Where strength triumphs over truth and justice ,and the poor and weak are barely treated as humans ,a 6 year old boy named Rishi strives for glory While heirs of powerful bloodlines rise arrogantly , Rishi works tirelessly to earn his place in the mahaveera shila, concil of siddhi practicing warriors But in a world where power has a price of pain , will Rishi,s willpower be enough or will the evil lurking around him crush him before he rises

Chiara Castello has never stayed in one place for too long. But this time is completely different from all the others. Chiara, her older brother Alessandro and their mother, Anna, pack up and leave everything behind for the coastal Italian island, Isolina. Now, along with all the other horrors of moving, Chiara has to adapt to a new country and a new language. The trio moves in with Anna's friend, Maria, and her family. They're all warm and welcoming at first, except for Leo. He's cold, mysterious, yet somehow alluring. Chiara is warned to not get too close. It seems simple enough of an ask, especially since Leo's girlfriend, Francesca, actively meddles and tries to make Chiara's already chaotic life a living hell. But is staying away as easy as it seems? New chapters weekly