Shard backed away before his opponent could swing his blade at him. Shard then dashed forward and knocked him back with a spin kick before thrusting his sword towards his grandfather, only managing to slightly slash his shoulder. His great grandfather grabbed his arm while he was still in the air and slammed him into the ground before pinning him down with his foot on Shards chest. As he was about to,drive his sword through Shards chest, Shard caught the blade in between his fists and threw his great grandfather off of him before picking up his blade again and jumping backwards to catch his breath.

The older Shard just glared at his descendant and shook his head. "Look at yourself, you don't even embrace your curse to become powerful like I did."

"Oh yes, and how did that play out for you huh? You ignored the warnings and it fed on your memories, you forgot your own son, you forgot your own wife and you forgot how to love!" Shard exclaimed as he kicked a rock up into the air and kicked it midair, shooting it over to the older Shard how merely sliced it in half.

"A small price to pay for great power."

"Do you have any idea how cliché this is right now?!" Shard blocked a blow from his opponents blade and hit him with a headbut. "I have enough shit to deal with without you showing up all of a sudden!"

The older Shard growled and gripped his sword tightly, his hair beginning to flicker like fire. Before the process could be completed Shard charged foreward and stabbed him in the chest, making sure to not have hit any vital areas. His opponent just looked at him in shock. "Have you no honour? You'd strike a man as he tries to fight to his full potential?!"

"Don't you lecture me about honour, I don't want to hear it. Now you have two options. Either leave now and return to your cave in the mountains and never bother my family again or stay here and get the shit beat out of you by me, my father and a good amount of the family. Choose wisely..." Shard warned while sliding his blade out of his corrupt relative.

All he got in response was a foot to the stomache and a sword hilt to the back of the head. He staggered for a moment before sheathing his blades and turning around.

"We're done." He said simply.

"What?"

"I'm done, I'm done fighting you. You aren't worth my time or my effort, and you've tainted that blade so much it has no meaning to me anymore." Shard just began to slowly walk away.

The older Shard growled and charged, only to be thrown to the ground by a newcomer. Shards fatter stood over his grandfather and glared. "We all told you to never return to us."

Shard decided to let his father deal with him, he had had enough excitement for one day and just wanted to relax before getting into the whole Mise situation.

Stewarts store

Shard and Ditzy walked into their favourite store with small smiles in their faces. Stewart jumped over the counter to meet them, brushing himself down and glaring at everyone who would still stare at Ditzy. At least they were only staring, one time a guy had tried to hit on her while Shard was there, big mistake on his part. Ended up with his head shoved inside a tight devil mask and was thrown into a crowd of angry nuns who then tried to purify him.

"Hey, if it's isn't the cutest and only straight couple to walk through my door. What brings you by today?" Stewart greeted with a smile.

"I'm just here to browse a bit, maybe get a copy of some Studio Ghibli movie or get some RWBY merch." Ditzy answered with a soft smile.

"Oh, well you know where everything is so help yourself. What about you Shard?" He asked as they both watched Ditzy walk away.

"I want to talk to you about something."

"Alright, come up to the counter then." Once the two were at the front counter Shard pulled out his phone and showed Stewart a picture.

"You've seen the trailers right?" He asked as he pointed to the picture on his phone, which contained the logo for Sonic Mania and a screenshot of the next 3D Sonic game yet to be given a name.

"Of course I have, what kind of fan of the franchise would I be if I didn't see what could possibly be Somics last chance to redeem himself after...Sonic Boom." Everyone in the room shivered at the mere mention of the awful glitch filled game. "Anyway, what about it?"

"Once you get copies of these in store you need to promise me you'll save me some." Shard answered, almost begging.

"Jesus man, I know you're a huge fan but you don't need to act so desperate."

"Sorry...its just...this could be it you know? These could be the games that finally bring Somic out of his second dark age."

"With the way the fandom is, not likely..." Stewart admitted with shame.

"That's sadly true...the fandom is the most divided and hard to please group on the planet."

"Hey Shard!" They heard Ditzy call from the second floor.

"yeah Ditzy?!"

"Come see this, it's so cool!"

Shard chuckled and put his phone away. "I'll go see what she's so excited about."

"You're a lucky guy you know that?" Shard stopped as he heard Stewart say that. "Not many guys get to have a girl as sweet and loving as Ditzy love them, especially not guys that love the stuff we do." Shard turned around and saw that the other nerds in the stores lower floor had gathered up and looked to him. "All of us, we all can't help but be slightly jealous. So, promise us that you'll take good care of her, hang into her for as long as you can."

Shard smiled and nodded. "I've made this promise about ten times now, but I promise, I'll look after her."

Meanwhile

A girl stood in her room looking out the window in thought. Suddenly, her door opened and a man walked in wearing a butlers uniform. "My lady, your father has requested your presence."

The girl smiled. "I was expecting him to summon me sooner, it is approaching that time after all." She began to walk out of the room before she looked to a picture from on her dresser, of her and a particular teen. "Soon, we will finally be together. Shard."

Author's Notes:

Ok, at this point I'm putting in the storylines I had threw out for this story back in as subplots because why not?! It's my story and I can have a bit of fun with it, although whenever I start having too much fun with a story it ends up being a complete clusterfuck. Oh well.

This isn't the last time we'll see the older Shard, and that sideplot with that girl won't be until after the stiff with Mise.