The initial steps towards the project that would become Dragonball: After Earth began in 1998, when in a fit of boredom I came upon a website for DBZ chat based role-playing. As you can imagine all the good characters were taken, and thus the creation of Son Medon. So at 18 years old, at my first job, I set forth to play.
Eventually after two years, and two other dull jobs that kept me active on the Internet, the fad of role-playing sites faded. So to fulfill my Dragonball needs at the time, I was forced to choose between the slow releases of dubbed DVDs to watch anything of good picture quality or numerous acquired bootlegs with fan-subtitles.
I chose another path and thus the birth of Dragonball: After Earth. When it started DB: AE was a labor of love, chapters came out fast, a new one every month. It was well received, fan mail came in expressing desire for each new installment. Like all good things though it died. Planet Namek closed down, which eliminated both a great reference site, as well as one of my prime sources of exposure. I also got heavily sidetracked by life, dating, moving, getting married, children. You name it.
So the labor of love became a chore, and AE died. After 11 completed chapters and a half-done twelfth, it became something I dreaded sitting down to work on as opposed to being excited about.
Now I sit here, some three years after the last time Son Goku and Medon did their battle against the daemon empire and AE again calls out to me to finish the tale that began so long ago.
I want to thank the two people who have brought about this resurrection of sorts. Robert N., the host of the website that birthed Medon and a good friend again after years of absence. He helped reawaken my interest in my tale, as well as the motivation to finish it.
Also to my wife Mandy, who despite telling me I'm the laziest person alive, believes in my ability to accomplish anything if I set my mind to it. So I have set my mind back to AE.
I now proudly present, again, Dragonball: After Earth in its entirety. All previous chapters have been re-edited and additional content added. Think of this as the Directors Cut, my definitive vision of this world and the characters within. Hopefully you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, and someday in the future we can revisit the world together.
Nick V./Blood Wraith
2/24/2007,