Caleb The Hedgehog

When Caleb Gonzales woke up in the video game he last played, he expected things to go down like they did in those webnovels he read in his spare time. However, there was one hitch. Instead of being the hero, he woke up as a demon rat, one of the lowest ranks a demon could get. Now, with the help of a sketchy system, he needs to rise to the top if he wants to survive this new world and possibly return home. Mega Writing Prompt #001/MWP#001

In CALEB'S ASCENSION TO POWER, nobody can be trusted because the more you look, the less you see. Caleb was a Billionaire from the richest family in the city but in his quest for true love, he decided to live in disguise as a poor man working in another city. He met Jenny who he married thinking she was the right one for him until he caught her sleeping with his boss who did it to humiliate him. She divorced him and in anger, he decided to go back to his real identity but unknown to Jenny, he had been the one secretly helping her to grow her business but she discovered it too late but she was ready to do anything to win him back. The night before Caleb returned to his family, he received a cryptic text from an unknown person warning him not to trust anyone in his family. Caleb returned home to discover there was a conspiracy against his life within his family and also a power tussle for the family company. On his first return, he was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Caleb returned from the hospital a changed person who refused to be fooled by the sweetness of the people around him including his father. Journey with us in CALEB'S ASCENSION TO POWER as he uncovers the conspiracies behind him and the people who want him dead.

Caleb thought loyalty was enough. He worked day and night, scraping together every coin, giving everything to a woman who never saw him as more than a stepping stone. When she told him she was going to a birthday party, he believed her. But hours later, Caleb walks into a luxury wedding as the hired electrician— And sees his girlfriend in a white dress, marrying another man. She doesn’t just deny him. She laughs at him. And her billionaire husband forces him to kneel in front of the crowd. They thought Caleb was nothing. Just a delivery boy. But fate has other plans. Caleb is the true heir to the Callahan empire. The bloodline everyone forgot. The name written into a trillion-dollar legacy. Now, he’s back. Not as a servant. Not as a victim. As the man they’ll all kneel to.

To protect Ava Morales's dignity, Caleb Martin willingly took the fall and went to prison. He even gave up all his money and possessions to support Ava financially while he was gone. But on the very day he was released, Ava betrayed him. Now a successful woman worth two billion dollars, she saw Caleb as a useless husband and chose to be with the son of a wealthy tycoon instead. Ava threw Caleb away without a second thought—completely unaware that something extraordinary had happened to him behind bars. The tides have turned, and a new king has risen.

When the world goes silent, survival begins. A global blackout ends everything — power, communication, and control. In one terrifying instant, cities burn and the modern world disappears. High in the River-mouth Mountains, Caleb Cross, a quiet hydroplant engineer, becomes the unwilling leader of strangers trapped in the dark. As panic turns to hunger and trust turns to fear, Caleb must keep them alive while the outside world collapses into violence. Every night brings new threats: desperate survivors, freezing storms, and the crushing silence of a planet gone dead. In the darkness, leadership costs blood. In the quiet, humanity is tested. And when the last light fades, Caleb will learn what kind of man survives after the quiet.

Caleb is broke, unlucky, and desperate for cheap rent. When a mysterious lease falls into his hands, he thinks he’s scored the deal of a lifetime—until he realizes he just signed with Hell. Now he’s got thirty days to deliver souls or lose his own. With a sarcastic demon handler, an angry best friend, and rent still due, Caleb’s life is about to spiral into horror, comedy, and pure chaos. Hell has never been this hilarious… or this dangerous.

Caleb King faced tough times, juggling college on a sponsorship and working as a delivery boy to get by. However, a twist of fate transformed his life, when he suddenly finds himself becoming a billionaire.

Caleb Davis never imagined his dream of becoming an actor would turn into a daily fight for survival. After years of playing nameless background roles and chasing auditions that went nowhere, he was just another face lost in the crowd. Fame felt like a distant fantasy — until one unforgettable night changed everything. In the middle of chaos, a strange voice echoed in his mind: [The Film and Television Martial Emperor System has been activated.] From that moment, Caleb’s life turned upside down. The system gave him the ability to gain real martial power through the roles he performed. Every time he stepped in front of the camera, he didn’t just act — he lived the part. When he played a warrior, he learned their strength. When he played a monk, he gained their discipline. And when he played a villain, he inherited their ruthless will to survive. As his skills grew, so did his fame. But the deeper he sank into this new world, the harder it became to tell where acting ended and reality began. Enemies from the industry, hidden powers, and mysterious figures started to take notice. Now, with his rising fame and the system’s power pushing him forward, Caleb must walk a path between illusion and truth — where one performance could change not only his career but the fate of the entire world.

Beneath Manhattan’s glittering skyline lies the Silver District — an urban quarantine zone where the city hides its failures. Inside its shadows roam the Lycaon, humans mutated by illegal genetic conditioning. Governments insist they’re extinct. They are very wrong. Caleb Mercer — former security officer turned fugitive — survives on the fringes after escaping a classified experiment known as Program Howl. Every night, he battles a violent transformation ripping his humanity apart. Every day, federal strike teams hunt him as an “uncontrolled biological threat.” When an explosion tears through the Silver District, exposing the existence of a second generation of engineered shapeshifters, Caleb becomes the only one capable of tracking the outbreak’s source. He doesn’t want to be a hero. He just wants revenge — and answers. The truth? Something worse than werewolves is evolving in the city’s bones.

After being betrayed by his girlfriend for being a nobody and humiliated by his boss, Caleb learns that he's an heir to a multi-billion dollar company. But to reclaim it, he has to make many tough choices, including marrying the enemy's stepdaughter. Find out how he takes his revenge on all those who wronged him.