Chapter 1 - Fire Hero or Fire Maniac? What about both.
"I'm a delivery girl. The only thing is, I deliver fiery destruction to villains of Paragon city. The warriors are my favorite, they stand around pumping themselves up. They all look inward at a leader practicing drills or whatever, and they don't notice..."
Aemeni raises her hand, and her body pulses blue twice then streaks of red flash out all around the warriors. They start to turn around while the leader says, "Get her!" and Aemeni breaths fire in very wide swathes felling the minions. The boss approaches her ready to strike.
Aemeni's hand pulses blue and the boss goes flying, she streaks fire after him and he falls. Seconds later Aemeni leaps into the air on the prowl for more targets of opportunity.
"The only problem is, I'm being transformed by the essense of pure fire, a somewhat god like being that has no direct physical existence but can project himself psychically. The fire god sets up his avatars and gives them extra power. Six months ago I was a regular...well almost regular person with a minor ability to use fire, kinda like in Stephen King's version. The firestarter ain't got nothing on me now.
The fire god took notice, and he's been redirecting how I do things, how I dress. Its all blacks and reds now, I used to wear blues and greens and skip about like a fairy princess or something. It was just suggestions originally. Like listening to a subliminal tape, I knew they weren't my own thoughts.
Then I started to fail to distinguish between his suggestions and my own thoughts. Finally I started to really get into it. People say fire is always a bad thing, a destroyer. Well I destroy evil, whatever you may say of my methods. Sure the fire dudes got some big evil, like that archvillain inferno whose under his thumb and got so powerful that way. But hey, I've stopped being so concerned about good and evil ever since I starting going along with his ideas.
Undead, they don't like fire, too bad they've got some nasty moves. I've been encased in rock dozens of times, knocked on my butt hundreds. And been to the hospital more than I can recall. Nonetheless I don't think like your everyday superhero. Every time I see those warriors standing there, having a meeting, or maybe 2 dozen council doing nothing, its time to move into action.
The Pantheon, those undead guys, they don't stand still very long. They always stand too far apart too. Inevitably I'll get stuck by one of the magic leaders and have to repel hordes of them standing a few inches away.
Sometimes I work with superheroes, but they never seem to share my sense of joy at large business meetings or overtime. Every extra soldier the council place on alert, is another target of opportunity from my perspective."
Aemeni lands from her superjump...in the wrong place, six Tsoo start hacking away at her, then a yellow ink man holds her in place. She struggles to get away. Flying up and away from them. She lands a small distance away and starts flinging the fire. A Tsoo Sorcerer arrives and sends her flying...into the hospital. The medibot teleported her there just as the sorcerer was to finish her off.
Sitting on the medical chair she says, "I'm sure his godliness loves watching me wipe out. He says there's a few more phases left for me to go through. He hasn't shown me everything he'll give me. A few more months and I'll even be sneezing fire I think."