Mark of Trigon Chapter 1: Wake Up
It had been a week since 'the end of the world', said event had been avoided, prevented by the Teen Titans and the Justice League.
The Teen Titan known as Raven had once again trapped her father Trigon within a red gem.
While said entrapment spell was being activated by Raven herself, everyone else had been stalling Trigon and his minions.
The League had been stalling Trigon on Earth, while the Titans were distracting the various demons within Trigon's realm.
Garfield Logan, also known as Beast Boy, had 'trouble' when he entered the realm with the team. He had unwillingly morphed into various demonic creatures, but retained full control and had helped massively in distracting the demons.
What no one realised is that this drew Trigon's attention, despite not being in his realm at the time he was very aware of what was happening there, he found the green shapeshifter an interesting specimen, so mere seconds before being trapped within the gem once more - He successfully placed a very complex curse on Garfield.
A powerful curse that he alone could only place every 500 years before regaining enough strength to use again. For a very good reason.
The Mark of Trigon, a curse that when placed on a mortal would start up a ritual, two weeks after being placed, the target would become a portal, sort of like what Trigon had tried with Raven, his daughter.
However, the major difference is what happens next, said portal would be transported to the caster's realm and they would do battle as mortals, only the survivor would walk away, walk through the portal created before it closed forever.
There were a few 'problems' with the ritual however besides Trigon having to battle the green one as a mortal when the time came, if the 'portal' were to die before the ritual was complete, then the ritual would fail, and Trigon would need to wait another 500 years to try the ritual again.
There was also the fact that the green one had unstable DNA, and as seen that day, he had the ability to morph into demonic creatures too, meaning there was a chance that since the ritual was demonic in nature then the green one would end up morphing into one to match Trigon in the battle.
The previous mortal to be subjected to this ritual was Azarathian, no surprises. This mortal had escaped the Trigon's realm upon entering, and to prevent the completion of the ritual and therefore the destruction of Azarath, he had taken his own life off-world.
Trigon had hoped that this time would be different, he hoped this time he would win, win the Earth.
"Wake up Garfield. Your time has come..."
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Within the Titans Tower, in said shapeshifter's bedroom he had woken up with a start, and that's when he forgot the strange nightmare to notice the strange markings on his body.
"Uh, when did I get tattoos?"
