Romeo had sat alone along the outskirts of Magnolia, he has always retreated to this location when he wanted to find quietness, in this case it had been a couple of days after his nightmare, and strange thoughts have been forming in his head. The spot had always always done a great job, the only objects Romeo could really see from a distance were rocks trees and occasionally a big rock.

"I should probably get back soon...old man is probably worrying about me."

A soft laugh escaped the fire mages lips thinking of his father, but soon followed a sigh as romeo stood up. He sauntered over to one of the said rocks. It has been weeks since Natsu and the others came back, he should have been happy and frankly he usually was.

"huh…"

But a certain thought couldn't help but escape his mind.

Who am I

The thought had sparked when the Gajeel the resident iron dragon slayed had officially dubbed him the mini salamander, and who could blame and not only did he have the same elemental type as the dragon slayer he also shared many apparel features, right down to the scarf. Initially it had been a symbol of respect to his idol, and honor those who were believed to be lost to the might of acnologia, but once the group had return, why did he keep dressing in this fashion, everyone else in the guild had their own unique identity, while he was simply viewed as a child who still plays dress up of his hero.

While romeo was lost in his thoughts of self discovery, he had hooked two fingers around his yellow scarf, a dark red fire emerged from his fingers, a dangerous fire.

I'm not a mini salamander

It was clear the iron dragon slayer words had gotten to the younger fire mage, why did he have to be compared to natsu so heavily, 7 years is a lot of time it was clear romeo had grown up a lot during that time period, he had trained and studied fire magic intensely just so he could take revenge on the dragon who had caused the initial disappearance of the tenrou group.

I grew in ways they would never understand, I could easily beat Natsu and the others now, they were gone for 7 years while I did nothing but isolate myself and grow stronger every day, they just went on a extended vacation!

Pure anger coursed through the ravenette at this point, he realized his logic was flawed but anyone who had seen romeo in action would know he was not some defenceless little kid anymore with his new found magic he was surely ahead of most his age group group, he didn't want to be seen as a imitator...

"huh."

As his thoughts slowly came to a end, his eyes look down to realize he had completely burned his scarf, it could be described as charcoal, slowly tugging on the destroyed fabric caused the structure of it to vanish as it blew away as ash, some running down the males body.

"..."

No words left his lips, he simply stood up and walked back to the guild hall a ways away. It was clear this moment of silence had brought out something in the fire mage, he had a new mission in fairy tail.

I'm romeo the prince of flames.

A/u: Sorry for not posting in such a long time there really is no excuse for not posting in so long, but I do hope to update much sooner!