Underdog Stories

Aviator sunglasses? Check Military cap and Central Government standard uniform? Check Commander of a Squad of Three Mass Produced Nikke? Check!! A system/golden finger/cheat? Check!!!! Barely 150cm tall, and not even at the right age to smoke and drink? Check- wait what? He was totally average even when reincarnated with his mostly unreliable meta knowledge and a system that doesn't care about him. His Nikke on the other hand.... {Product 23 - Level 300} {I-Doll Sun - Level 300} {Soldier OW - Level 300} {Defeated a Tyrant! TRANS-AM Obtained! Would you like for one of your Nikke to equip it?} Follow Y/N L/N or "Rien" as he rises above what is considered "Average" and becomes the Mechanical Messiah.

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.

Evan Brooks is only eighteen when the football world decides he doesn't belong. Despite dominating a youth selection camp, the Chinese-Portuguese midfielder is cut without mercy, left with nothing but frustration, a lethal long pass, and a dream that should have ended before it began. Then Cristiano Ronaldo receives a final message from his dying mentor about a boy in white whose passes can split a pitch apart. That boy is Evan. Pulled from obscurity into Portugal's World Cup camp, Evan goes from university training ground to the biggest tournament on earth in the blink of an eye. He has the vision to find runners nobody else sees, the technique to turn half-chances into goals, and a mysterious Heart of the Pitch System that begins to awaken as the pressure rises. But talent alone means nothing when veterans doubt him, fans accuse him of buying his place, and every touch of the ball is judged under the glare of the world. As Portugal charges into a brutal World Cup run, Evan must grow fast enough to survive elite football, earn the trust of his teammates, and become the perfect partner for Ronaldo's last shot at immortality. Because on this stage, one pass can make history-and one mistake can end everything.

The girl who stopped talking because no one was listening until she found someone who did. Avery Kylie Grambs is a brilliant but ignored and unpopular high school student. She is shy, timid, quiet and awkward making her the perfect target, but she is determined to prove them wrong. After a disastrous accident she gets into the wrong books of the popular magnetic Jameson Hawthorne. He is everything she wishes she was. He is like the dream she could never have thrown in her face and she hates him every bit as he hates her. She wasn't supposed to be noticed by people like him. His hate for her does nothing to improve how her classmates treat her. Could this accident unravel her life more or could it be the very thing that saves her. Slow burn romance Enemies to lovers Academic pressure and the girl who is determined earn her place. Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to any of these characters or the inheritance games world all rights belong to Jennifer Lynn Barnes

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏꜱᴛ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜꜱ ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ɪɴ ꜰᴏʀᴍᴜʟᴀ ᴏɴᴇ, ᴡᴀꜱɴ'ᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇꜱ ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴡʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ʙᴏᴏᴋꜱ, ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴇʀᴀꜱᴇᴅ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ɪᴛꜱ ꜰᴜᴛᴜʀᴇ? Ferrari had made a choice. They chose legacy over future, certainty over potential, the Seven-time World Champion over their unproven prodigy. They thought they were betting on victory. They didn't realize they were creating the one driver who could challenge a dynasty. The 2025 season will remember everything. Ferrari's decision leaves Hendryx Huntyr, a Belgian rookie fresh off a dominant Formula 2 championship, without a seat and without a future. To Formula 1, he is a missed opportunity. A casualty of politics... But Red Bull sees something else. To them, he is not a loss. He is a weapon. Signed in the aftermath of Ferrari's announcement, Hendryx is thrown into a world ruled by Max Verstappen, the Four-time World Champion who has rewritten the sport's record books and locked the grid under his reign of pace and precision. What no one expects is how fast the rookie adapts. How quickly he learns. How cleanly he cuts through them. How little he needs to break you. Race by race, lap by lap, Hendryx becomes the blade that slices through Verstappen's legacy, and the expectations of a sport that believed it already knew its future. Alongside the rising generation of young talent: Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Oliver Bearman, Isack Hadjar, and Gabriel Bortoleto, a new era begins to take shape. The grid becomes a battlefield between legacy and succession. And in the heart of all that, stands a rookie Ferrari never wanted, and Red Bull refuses to lose. 🏎 Records are shattered. 🏆 Legends are threatened. 🔥 Dynasty meets its successor. The Scarlet's Mistake || The Bull's Blade

The Heart of the Race follows a modern Hyrule where Formula 1 racing defines heroes and legends. Rookie driver Link joins the struggling Hyrulean Racing, turning the team into unexpected challengers with his fearless talent and quiet determination. As rivalries ignite - from Ganondorf's reigning dominance to Revali's pride and Zelda's conflict between duty and dream - every driver races not only for victory, but for identity and purpose. Across roaring circuits and desert sunsets, courage, ambition, and destiny collide in a story where the true battle isn't just on the track - it's within the heart that drives it. *All characters belong to Nintendo save for some original characters. I own all the artwork used and for the story itself.* I hope you enjoy! All awards (current and past): #1 - Inspiring #1 - Underdog #1 - Revali #1 - Impa #1 - Ganondorf #1 - Paya #1 - Riju #2 - Zelink #1 - Courage #5 - Racing #1 - Link #2 - Zelda #1 - againstallodds

Adrian Ashbourne was born into one of Britain's oldest magical families-and born a Squib. No Hogwarts letter. No wand. No place in the world that raised him to believe magic was everything. On his eleventh birthday, a broken rune awakens a strange Gamer System, but it does not fix him. Instead, it offers another path: runes, wards, artifacts, contracts, and dangerous magic no proper wizard bothers to understand. While Harry Potter enters Hogwarts as the Boy-Who-Lived, Adrian remains outside its promise. But broken things have rules, and Adrian is done being treated like one by anyone again.

In a world where insignias determine status, talent, and destiny, those born without one are treated as nothing. They are called Nulls. Arthur Lynwirth enters Eldoria Academy carrying no insignia, no noble background, and no interest in standing out. Quiet and detached, he spends most of his days avoiding attention, training alone, and trying to survive academy life beside his loud-mouthed best friend, Darius. But despite Arthur's efforts to remain unnoticed... people can't help but notice him. Professors grow suspicious of the knowledge he casually reveals. Students whisper about the strange pressure surrounding him. Even powerful Cresteds find themselves unsettled by him without understanding why. Because Arthur isn't normal. He knows things he shouldn't know. Moves in ways he shouldn't move. And at times, it feels as though something ancient is staring back through his eyes. As tensions between Cresteds and Nulls continue to rise, forgotten legends surrounding Luciel - a figure long buried within myth and history - slowly begin resurfacing. And the deeper Arthur is pulled into the mysteries of the world, the more dangerous his existence becomes. Especially when even the strongest people around him begin asking the same terrifying question: Who... or what... is Arthur Lynwirth? Filled with mystery, brotherhood, hidden power, comedy, emotional bonds, and ancient secrets waiting to awaken, The Boy Without an Insignia is the beginning of an epic fantasy journey about a boy the world saw as worthless... unaware that his existence may one day change the world itself.

Chen Wei died in a thunderstorm. He woke up in the body of a disowned noble bastard in a world ruled by mages. His magical affinity score: 7 out of 100. Zero talent. A cripple. The nobles laughed. The mages dismissed him. The girl who saved him thought he was a charity case. They didn't know about the Nine Heavens Scripture burned into his soul - a forbidden cultivation technique from a dying world that treats "magical talent" like a joke. While they chant for hours to cast a single spell, he breathes. While they follow the laws of magic, he rewrites them. While they call him a mortal among mages... He's about to show them what a mortal can do. A Progression Fantasy novel with Eastern Cultivation meets Western Magic. Weak-to-strong. System elements. No harem.

Princess Nairobi of Malindi-Ra has spent her life being called useless. Too quiet. Too soft. Too strange. Too hidden behind maps, scrolls, and old stories. In a kingdom that praises loud warriors and shining royals, Nairobi has always felt like a shadow beside her powerful brothers and spoiled younger sister. But when the annual Coming of Age Tournament begins, every noble child of sixteen must enter the arena and prove their strength, skill, wisdom, and leadership. Everyone expects Nairobi to fail. Instead, she begins to see what others miss. With her best friend Mosi beside her, the bronze ring of her legendary ancestor on her finger, and the sharp guidance of Elder Makena in her heart, Nairobi must survive impossible trials, cruel laughter, hidden traps, and a final test that will reveal what kind of leader she truly is. By sunset, Malindi-Ra will learn that the quiet princess was never useless. She was becoming dangerous. This is an original fictional story set in the made-up African-inspired kingdom of Malindi-Ra. The main character, Princess Nairobi, is loosely inspired by the legacy of powerful African women leaders such as Queen Nzinga and other historic warrior-diplomat figures, but the plot, kingdom, characters, and events are fictional.

May diploma. May talento. May pangarap. Isang writer na halos hindi kumikita. Isang anak na hindi makaalis sa bahay. Isang taong pagod nang habulin ang hustisyang matagal nang ipinagkait sa kanya. A story about ambition, survival, betrayal, and finding peace in a world that never played fair.

Manners nahi sikhaye kya tumhare parents ne? Khair chhodo... Guards, thikane laga do in sab ko." ​Mumbai ke ek luxury penthouse mein, raat ke do baje laashon ke beech khada Siddharth apni zindagi ka sabse aakhri aur azeez naam dhoond raha tha. Woh ek ruthless darinda ban chuka tha, jise dhokebaaz log bilkul pasand nahi the. ​Doosri taraf, Delhi ke ek gande se orphanage mein rehta Kabir... jiske paas na ek dhang ki dress thi, aur na hi tapakti hui chhat se bachne ka koi raasta. School mein ghutno ke bal baithkar bullies ke aage bheekh mangna uski roz ki hakeekat ban chuka tha. ​Par jab Siddharth us purane school ko mitti mein milane aaya, toh usne socha nahi tha ki use wahan Kabir milega. Apne bitaaye hue kal ko dekh kar, usne poori class ke saamne ek shart rakhi-"Apna naam aur apna sapna batao." ​Kabir khada hua. Usne kaha, "Mujhe Doctor banna hai." ​Ek aisa insan jo roz laashein bichaata hai, woh us bache ki baat sunkar andar hi andar hasne laga. Par is baar hansi dukh ki nahi thi... confusion ki thi. Kyunki Siddharth ne jab Kabir ki desk par dekha, toh wahan Political Science aur History ki kitaabein padi thin. ​Kabir ko jaan bachani thi... par stream usne Arts le rakhi thi! ​Ek gangster jo sab kuch tabah karne aaya hai, aur ek Arts ka student jo Doctor banne ka khwaab dekh raha hai. Jab in dono ka bita hua kal aamne-saamne aayega, toh kismat kaunsa naya khel khelegi?

The world didn't end with a warning. It ended with an bite. Within days, cities fell silent, governments collapsed, and the infected spread faster than anyone could contain them. Forced to adapt to a world of military quarantines, desperate survivors, and horrors lurking beyond the safety of fortified walls, twenty-year-old Serena Fontaine struggles to find her place in the ruins of the old world. As the months pass and civilization fractures into survivor settlements, raider kingdoms, and ruthless warlords, Serena finds herself drawn deeper into the mysteries surrounding the outbreak and the secrets buried beneath its ashes. But when the people she trusts begin to disappear and old truths refuse to stay buried, her search for answers becomes something far greater than survival. Because somewhere in the ruins of yesterday lies the truth about how the world ended. And some secrets were never meant to survive it.

Humanity relies on elite soldiers with massive mana pools to survive the terrifying Mana Beasts. Then there is Kale. With a pathetic mana level of just 21, he's an absolute nobody. But when a shortcut through the woods plunges him into a dark, underground dungeon, everything changes. Armed with only a rusted pickaxe and a mysterious system screen, Kale must dig, survive, and reach the Earth's core. Up above, he's a glitch. Down below, he's rewriting the rules. I will be posting this story on Royal Road.

Nine years ago, the Reaving took almost every adult Link bearer in the world. The children who survived grew up in overcrowded refuges, taking adult jobs at ten, making it up as they went. Now they're old enough to carry Links of their own. This generation carries more than any in recorded history. Every continent has produced a Legendary simultaneously. It has never happened before. Someone noticed. Someone started planning before the Reaving even ended. Lux and Nox Eclypse both have Legendary Links. The world knows about one of them. At her awakening ceremony, Lux's Hydra filled the altar and the city celebrated for three days. Nox stepped up after and the altar barely flickered. A pale snake. Barely worth recording. The stone cracked when he stepped off it. Nobody looked at the crack. At the Grand Academy of Links, Lux carries the future of Greece on her shoulders. Nox walks one step behind, watches everything, and waits. They've split it this way since they were twelve. She takes the light. He takes everything else. Outside Greece, the Dragon is already moving.

When Asta and Hunter receive their grimoires under extraordinary circumstances, their lives take an unexpected turn. The two friends, along with their enigmatic companion Yuri, join the infamous Black Bulls squad under Captain Yami Sukehiro. But the path to becoming Magic Knights is never easy. From battling rogue mages and exploring dangerous dungeons to confronting the sinister Eye of the Midnight Sun, these young warriors must prove their worth in a world that looks down on commoners.

In a world where adolescents must face a mandatory, high-stakes "Test of Maturity" to secure their future, a sheltered and self-described frail teenager named Meepo accidentally oversleeps on the most important day of his life. After a frantic race against the clock to reach the massive departure docks, Meepo reunites with his eccentric group of friends, only to have their hopes of a non-physical trial shattered when the randomized selection reveals the one thing he dreads most: a physical test on the brutal, mysterious Quest Island.

The ring has grown. The shadows have deepened. The definitive chronicle returns. Echoes of the Ring 6.0 is the 6th Edition is the ultimate, updated encyclopedia and tactical manual of the globally revered "Lunar Leopard" wrestling mythos. While the previous edition meticulously charted a superstar's rise from the cherry-blossom-strewn mats of elementary school to the bright lights of senior collegiate brands, the 8th Edition tears down the walls of the amateur circuit to venture into the true unknown: The Global Professional Transition and Legacy Era.This edition indexes the brutal reality of the leap from collegiate prodigy to masked icon. It breaks down the grueling psychology of evolving a gimmick, mastering international "Lucha-Style" high-flying and lethal catch-wrestling fusions, and surviving the backstage politics of predatory promotions. Beyond the tactics, this book unearths the deeper narrative of the Lunar Leopard lineage-revealing the hidden history of the original elders who wore the cowl, the blood-feuds passed down through generations, and the rising stars fighting to inherit the spots.

The 2234 Universe gathers wild, thought‑provoking stories from every corner of a hard‑won Solar System. In the asteroid belt people struggle and strive. On Ariel's ice, a battered outpost fights to reboot its lungs and its conscience. In Caleb's Vein, a belt crew chases a river of living metal through the dark, trading sleep and skin for one shot at freedom. In Ethan's Saviour, a burned‑out responder on half‑pressured Mars gambles everything on a rescue that could redeem a city or expose its lie. These are hard science fiction tales built from real physics, ruthless economics, and stubborn hope. Mass drivers sing, contracts bite, robots keep score, and people still fall in love. From frost‑bright moons to dust‑red plains, every page asks the same question: what is a future worth if we forget the people in it? Facts, opportunities, and souls, all lit by the cold bright sun of 2234. Welcome to the World of 2234.

In a massive, city sized shelter, holding 15 million people, sixteen year old Kayla Hayes is in a living nightmare. Separated from her home during an invasion of mind-stealing Romacks, her only goal is to find her fourteen year old brother, Jeremy. But The Shelter holds dark secrets. As she's there, Kayla discovers that she has an older brother Jason, who she thought was dead, is actually alive and goes under the code name Twelve. To uncover the truth and save her brothers, she crosses paths with Nathan, 'Ace,' an infamous fugitive with permanent, natural blue sapphire hair and has a $9 million bounty on his head.