"Later, bro."
"Later, Natsu. Be careful out there." A young man stepped out of a small home in a suburban area and was on his way to school.
'My name is Natsu Dragneel. I'm seventeen years old and I live in Magnolia, which is a city as big as Manhattan. I live here with my older brother, Zeref. A couple years ago, we lost our parents in a car accident. Good thing my brother was at the top of his class. Otherwise, we would have some living problems.'
Natsu made it in the city area and was just minding his own business when he heard an alarm go off. Natsu dived under an alleyway when he heard it.
'There's one other thing you should know about me.' Natsu narrated. He changed into a dark red scaly full body suit with a mask over his face. He also wore a silver belt. He had fire form around his body and jumped from the walls and made it to the rooftops. 'I'm also known as the hero Salamander. Well, not exactly a hero. Some people think I'm some sort of menace because of this newspaper known as Weekly Source. The guy has it out for me. Anyway, you're all probably wondering how I got my powers. It all happened a few months ago.'
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Flashback
'My class ended up taking a field trip to a science facility before summer break.' Natsu narrated.
"You have to admit, this stuff is pretty cool." A red haired girl said.
"You would. Your mother works with electronics." A guy said.
'Those two are my closest, and some would say my only friends, Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet.' Natsu narrated. 'Not only have we been friends since we were kids, but Gray's father also works for Erza's mother who owns her own company.' Natsu just hanged back until a buffed blonde bumped his arm against him.
"Whoops. Sorry, Dragneel." The blonde said as he laughed with a few friends of his.
'That's our star quarterback, Laxus Dreyar. Also, in my definition, the biggest jerk around.' Natsu narrated. 'He's always been hard on me with his crew: Freed, Evergreen, Bickslow, and his girlfriend, Mirajane. Sometimes her younger brother and sister, Elfman and Lisanna, hang with them. Why a sweet girl like Mira is with a jerk like him is beyond me.'
"Attention, everyone. Please look this way." A scientist said as he referred to two machines connected by a crystal rod. "This will show you the appeal of science from heat and little radiation traveling through the crystal rod. Please keep your distance for safety reasons."
'What no one knew that day was they were studying animals on the same day and a little lizard managed to escape and was on that machine.' Natsu narrated. A small lizard climbed over the rod and just it was turned on, the heat and radiation caused the rod to glow a bright orange color, but it also affected the lizard with it falling off.
"Awesome!" Gray said.
"This way please and we'll continue our tour." The tour guide said and all of them got moving, but Natsu hanged back and saw something glowing on the ground.
'I was the only one that noticed the little lizard.' Natsu narrated. 'I went over to grab it, but that's when it all happened.' He reached out for the lizard, but his fingers burned the moment he touched it. 'It felt like I stuck my fingers in fire and burned them and that was when it all began.'
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End of Flashback
Natsu continued to move from one building to another and it was almost like a moving fireball.
'Ever since that happened, my body went through some changes. I became stronger, more agile, I could even climb on walls like a gecko, and I could produce flames around my arms and legs. I made the costume and heard of these lizards called salamanders and called myself that.'
The door to the bank busted open and two guys came running out with bags of money. One had silver hair with standard clothes and the other had wild brown hair and wore pants with a sash around his chest connected to his neck and large hoop earrings.
"We made it big!"
"Yeah we did."
"Seriously, Erigor and Ajeel? Did you two really think you could get away?" Both of them looked up on a light post and saw trouble for them.
"Not again." Erigor said.
'Sadly, these two are my most famous bad guys.' Natsu narrated.
Natsu jumped off the light post and kicked Erigor down.
"You've had this coming for a long time." Ajeel said as he tried to hit him, but Natsu grabbed his arm and tossed him over his head. Erigor got back up and tried to attack him, but Natsu spun around and kicked him in the head just as the cops came.
"You two never learn, do you?" Natsu said confident in his victory until he looked at the time. "Not good." He made a run for it as he moved as fast as he could. He hurried over to the school just as the bell rang.
'Now if only I can make it to school on time.' Natsu narrated. 'You don't have to tell me. I'm amazing.'