Fate Frontiers: Last N Fast

002 A Certain Red Head

Running past a sign that says, Fuyuki woods, Sonic races into the forest, using the woods to try and evade his pursuer. He keeps doing this until he arrives near a clearing where the man suddenly appears about to slam him down with a lariat.

"He can use chaos control!" Sonic exclaims before jumping over the man's attack.

"This... chaos control... is this what you call the 2nd magic?"

Sonic does a backflip before firing a barrage of kicks that shoot blue energy in the shape of jagged spears.

"Sorry, no freebies."

"Shame." The man proceeds to fire a rainbow arc of mana which quickly overpowers Sonic's kick projectiles. He quickly changes tactics and adopts a new position wherein he fires a multitude of X-shaped beams at the man from his hands while orbiting around his target. Said target would proceed to vanish into another portal and smack Sonic away with a kick to the back.

Sonic grits his teeth before turning into a ball. He then performs a homing attack towards the man. In response, his opponent creates a see through barrier. However, it was just as he planned. Using the momentum from that failed attempt, he bounces across the trees until he appears somewhere else, landing another homing attack from another side. This gets blocked again, but he once more uses it to build further momentum.

By this point, due to his speed, his enemy's barrier had become a full dome, covered in blue light due to Sonic's efforts only leaving the energetic trail. If his enemy were to drop the barrier at any point, Sonic's attack would land an incapacitating blow, possibly even a killing blow. This freed him to build its kinetic damage for a solid five seconds, short enough that his opponent should have no real way to counter. After 5 seconds have passed, he deems it as sufficient kinetic energy. Sonic proceeds to launch from a tree and delivers one final kick which pops the barrier.

However, instead of his attack landing, he notices how his body was currently frozen in dilated time.

"Phew... You're a tough one." The old vampire says as he fixes himself up, quite ruffled by Sonic's latest attack. He then proceeds to kick Sonic with a front kick covered in circuit-like patterns.

"How..." Sonic grunts out while he leans his elbows on the dirt below.

"Quite simple, really. You may be undoubtably faster than me, but I'm old. You're not the first speedster I faced."

With that, the man knocks Sonic out with a punch to the face.

He gasps awake, once more in the house of the red head. Looking down, Sonic notices the rope wrapped around himself.

Looking up, he sees the girl looking at him curiously, and the old man smiling next to her.

"Calm down. Those rope will come off when you've answered all my questions."

Sonic continues to glare at the old man who proceeds to lay the, now dormant Chaos Emeralds below his feet.

"Consider this a sign of trust."

Seeing no malice in either of the two, Sonic sighs and reluctantly complies. It wouldn't end well for him if he pisses off the guy who gave him as hard a time as Giganto did, he might not be able to return. Furthermore, this guy can Chaos control using that crystal sword of his. Could he be the person that the voice told him of? Chaldea?

"So... ask away then."

"Alright then... first things first, let's introduce ourselves."

The old man's sudden call to a polite introduction got Sonic thrown out for a loop. The old man seems to be able to do that easily.