A little while later, at an unknown location far away...
A creature of unknown origins awakened. No being ever in existence ever resembled this creature. No one knows where he came from. It seemed like the unique being just came into existence.
Instinctively, he sprang into a feral crouching position, as if expecting an opponent lurking in the shadows created by the dark jungle that served as his surroundings to strike at him whenever he presented a vulnerability. He leered, waiting for the attack that would never come.
Slowly, deliberately, he relaxed. Still ever cautious, he surveyed his surroundings. He had no idea what he was, or of his past. He only known of the present, and only thought about the immediate future.
However, a face kept coming into his subconscious… A face that he couldn't identify, with all his might… He suspected he had known whom the face belonged to once… The face with the strange, lightning-shaped marking and unruly, jet-black hair… The face with the pale, green eyes and round glasses…
But he had no time for matters like that now. With the balance of a jaguar and the speed of a falcon, he leapt into the canopy, finding a perch in the foliage. His strength astounded even him, and he began testing himself, trying to find the limit of his abilities. Deciding to reach the open sky, he hacked and slashed with his four bladed upper limbs, literally digging his way to his destination.
He had long since noticed the wings that, when they were spread to their fullest, could easily be twice as wide as his body. Attached below his shoulder blades, they were curiously aerodynamic, raising his speed instead of hindering him. Now, as he was above branches and other barriers that existed below the canopy, he could finally test these appendages to see if they were genuinely useful. Dispelling worries of injury and death, he spread his wings as a sailor would lower the sails of his ship, and took off after the waning sun.
He could not find words to describe the power that overwhelmed him, the joy that filled him when he realized that he wasn't hindered to just traveling on solid terrain. Absorbed in the sheer elation of flying, he found it nearly impossible to break away from the sky and land once more, yet he did, though at quite a distance from where he took off. The vegetation had thinned out, and the area was mostly grassland, brilliant green and gold spreading as far as his eyes could see.
Filled with the joy of being alive, he set off into the horizon.

It would be a couple days before he found his true power.

He had traveled in the direction he had set out in so long ago, dashing through the prairie instead of flying, taking care to not draw attention to himself.
Yet someone still noticed him.
A lone huntsman was trailing his quarry, a magnificent stag with a pair of record-setting antlers, when he saw the blur heading his way. Caught off guard, he had fired a shot from his hunting rifle without thinking about what he was doing.
Barely skirting the bullet, the creature was furious. What had he done to provoke that completely uncalled for assault? Failing to keep his temper under control, he charged the now terrified hunter. Imagine how surprised he was when the huntsman erupted in flames before he ever got close enough to take a slice at the poor man. Frenziedly rolling on the snow, the hunter tried desperately to put the flames burning merrily on his coat out. Now no longer armed or remotely dangerous, the hunter was a pathetic sight indeed.
The creature took pity on the man. Putting out the flames he had inadvertently unleashed, the creature left the cowering hunter wondering what had happened. Pondering his newly discovered powers and the their full extent, he sped off into the distance.

Yet the mystery of his identity would not leave him alone. Headed still in the direction that he designated not long ago, his thoughts suddenly focused on his existence and the mysterious face planted in his subconscious… Silently, he vowed to find out about himself and one day, track down the owner of the face inside his head.