Powerwithacost Stories

Dragon Ball Elite reimagines the Saiyan legacy through Elite-an unconventional survivor shaped by loss, ambition, and relentless growth. As fractured alliances form across worlds like Planet Vegeta and beyond, buried history resurfaces and conflicts ignite far earlier than expected. What begins as survival evolves into war, rebellion, and the reshaping of destiny itself. Power will be tested. Loyalty will fracture. Legends will be rewritten. What once thought to be canon will now be reimagined. Is this a wish from the dragon balls? FIND OUT! The Legend of Elite begins!

PHASE 2: THE KINDLING STORY 1: THE FIRST FORGING The world is running out of soul. When a young woman from the Beastwood discovers an ancient power buried beneath the earth, she becomes something the world was never meant to awaken. Esi is not a warrior. She is not chosen by prophecy. She is the Kindling - a living conduit capable of reigniting the forgotten SoulForge, the source of the world's lost spiritual energy. Guided by Amara, a scout who sees what others cannot, and protected by Chidi, a hardened survivor of a collapsing world, Esi is drawn deeper into a truth the Dominion has spent centuries burying. Samuel, a disgraced scholar marked by a mysterious Hollow Wound, knows what the Forge demands - and what it consumes. Beneath the Beastwood, seven obsidian stones drain lives to feed a dying system. Above ground, empires hunt power they barely understand. Reigniting the SoulForge will not save the world. It will change it. The First Forging is an adult AfroManga / AfroFuturist anime-inspired fantasy about power without permission, survival without heroism, and the cost of awakening something ancient in a world built on silence.