This, is the story of Haze. This is not a story about a super hero. This is not a story about right and wrong. This is a story of acceptance. Accepting who you are as a person. Accepting the fact that we have to live life to its fullest, even if we didn't choose to be here. Accepting the fact that we aren't perfect. This, is the beginning.

Titans

"Dudes. So not cool."

"How could he have come back?"

"It doesn't matter. We can beat him again."

"Did he get bigger from last time?"

"No….not you…."

The titans were freaking out. Trigon was back. But how? They had thought Raven defeated him and sent him back to whatever hell he came from. But apparently not.

"I didn't transfer him here this time. How could he…" Raven started, but quickly found the answer. "Haze." She turned around and glared at him. "How could you bring him here! You just brought hell on Earth!" Raven was furious. Her supposedly dead father was back to take over the world. She wasn't upset that he was back. She knew he could be defeated. She was angry that her boyfriend was the one that brought him back.

"Don't look at me," Haze said. "I can't teleport people." It was the truth. He had no clue how Trigon had came into Jump City. He hadn't even been to Azarath since….two weeks ago. He mentally kicked himself. Of course. This just had to happen to him. A piece of Trigon was left in Azarath. Trigon stored it there himself, as a way to revive himself. That piece must have somehow awakened and escaped through Haze's mind. Ok. So he can teleport people.

"Don't even pretend that you didn't start this!" Raven shouted. "We're going to take care of this," motioning towards the other titans. "If you aren't gone by the time we get back, then I'm going to send you to the most painful dimension I can think of!" She looked at the other Titans, who were staring at the two, scared for their lives. "LET'S GO NOW!!!!" The others quickly pulled themselves together and followed Raven to the city. Starfire quietly waved goodbye to Haze, and went to the garage. They didn't really want Haze to leave. He'd been with them for eight months, and they'd started to grow attached to him. Robin had a great new sparring partner, Starfire was glad to have a new friend to talk with, and Cyborg and Beastboy were always ready to play him at Mega Monkeys 4. Of course, Raven was glad someone from Azarath wasn't trying to kill her. She silently grew attached to him, and just a month ago she found the courage to ask him out.

Haze sighed to himself. "Great. I have to leave again. Why can't I ever stay in one place?" Ever since he was seven he was moving to new places. Orphaned before he could speak, the monks of Azar took him in as one of their own. He discovered he had super powers, and the monks feared the worst. Hoping to dispel any thoughts of using them, he was to be banished if they ever surfaced. Unfortunately, they did surface. All he did was stop a thief from making off with a precious scroll. He thought the monks would be grateful. Instead, the monks banished Haze and told him to never come back.

Haze slowly pulled himself together and went to his room to get his things. He thought that Raven liked him. That she of all people could understand being different. He would never intentionally hurt her. But it was too late. What she said, she said with conviction. No regrets or doubts. He sighed as the last of his things were packed. "Goodbye Titans." He morosely walked to the door, and opened it. He saw the city in ruins. The tower was surrounded by lava. The skyscrapers of Jump City were a pile of rubble as Trigon was stomping around, trying to squish one of the titans. "I guess they don't need me after all." He turned his back to go…but remembered that there was nowhere to go. The town was a mess. If the train station or airport was open, after this disaster, he would have been utterly speechless. Not wanting to leave, but knowing it was all he could do, Haze was confused. If he went to help the Titans, Raven would kill him. But there was nowhere else to go. Until the city was better, he was stuck in Jump. So he flew over to the path of destruction, deciding he'd just stay in the shadows.

"Foolish humans. I have grown stronger in the time that I've been gone. Not even you, daughter, can defeat me now," Trigon boomed over all the starbolts and sonic cannon blasts. "Give up now, and you will all live as my personal servants."

"I'd rather die!" Raven shouted, and began her spell. "Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. A brilliant white light emitted from her chest, and expanded in a circle around her. It kept growing; when it finally hit Trigon…nothing happened.

He boomed with his demonic voice. "That actually tickled a bit. But, I don't like being tickled." With that, Trigon reached out with his hand and grabbed Raven. She squirmed to be free, but was trapped. Beastboy flew up into the air as a pterodactyl, and came back down as a T-Rex. But with his other hand, Trigon swatted Beastboy away, as if he were a fly. Starfire, carrying Cyborg, was shooting Trigon with her eyebeams while Cyborg used his sonic cannons. Trigon stuck out his hand with Raven in it, and punched the two out of the sky. Robin, on his R-Cycle, flew off the top of one of the remaining skyscrapers and jumped…right onto Trigon's head. Pulling out his bo-staff, Robin quickly started flailing at Trigon's four eyes. Becoming annoyed, he reared his head back and smashed it into the skyscraper, with Robin in between.

"Is that all Earth can offer to defend itself?" Trigon shouted, his voice echoing over the desecrated city.