A/N: This chapter is kinda rushed, but I guess you could say this all so far is a prolouge. I have to get to the main storyline that I wanted to do now, so... yeah... Anyway, I need to know you people out there are reading. There's not really any point in typing this if nobody is reading. If you're supporting me, please post some review, at least say 'I'm reading!' I'm begging you people!

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Chapter 4: The Portal

"I can't keep this up much longer…"

Rin fired multiple Gand shots at the approaching army of White Shadows.

Archer traced a broadsword and kept on hacking away at the fiends, only to be knocked back once again by the sheer force of numbers.

"Hurry…"

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Illya, obviously roused awake before, joined Shirou and Saber for a 'brunch,' seeing as no one had time to have eaten breakfast.

Getting right to the point, Illya stated "Well, seeing as you're the White Shadows' only threat, they'd try to wipe you out as well as your allies, right? So Rin must have been killed or abducted by them."

"No, Tosaka is a powerful magus. She wouldn't be beaten so easily, would she?" Shirou asked.

"No, probably not, but there is a chance, seeing as she was unarmed."

"Wrong."

Everyone froze. Did Saber know something that Illya and Shirou didn't? Yes.

"I witnessed Rin summon Archer. I- I thought it would be okay not to tell you, since we're allied, but-"

"Now we don't know what happened after that." Shirou finished.

The three sat in silence, only the clack of chopsticks and the occasional chewing heard. Saber, unexpectedly, ate at an almost normal pace, obviously deep in thought. They all had something to think about at that meal.

When they all were finished their silent lunch, Shirou spoke up.

"We have to find them." Shirou bluntly stated.

"No duh, but how do we find out where they are?" Illya asked.

Shirou hadn't thought about it, so no reply came from his open mouth.

"Assuming that they were attacked, and are still alive, they probably ran off, because now that the White Shadows know where we are, this territory isn't exactly safe anymore. But where would they go?" inquired Saber.

"We'll just have to find out."

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After searching the city with no luck, the group ponders the absence of Rin and Archer some more. Eventually, they decide to search around where the incident happened, where the attack happened.

Shirou scowled. Not only were his friends missing (make that a singular 'friend,' Archer isn't exactly a friend to Shirou), now he had to go running all over looking for some clue to where they are, and Shirou doesn't have a clue where the clue is. Now Shirou doesn't have a clue why he's saying clue so much.

After searching for a while in the dojo, Shirou finds something. What it is, he doesn't know. That's why his conscience tells him not to touch it. To hell with his conscience, Shirou's going to touch it.

"SABER!!" is Shirou's last audible words before he's sucked into a small vortex. Luckily, everyone in the house, and probably the neighborhood, heard him.

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Saber and Illya burst into the dojo to find…nothing. Again. Frustrated at the fact that she keeps on entering the dojo to find nothing, Saber kicks the wall, and unexpectedly a closet door, and the door fell backwards. Then the door disappeared with a demented 'shlop' sound. Wait, what? Saber and Illya very carefully tiptoed towards the closet. Saber pushed back the junk in the closet to find a ominous swirling black orb, suspended in the air. It seems to be alive with mana, and wondering what this is, Saber touches it. Big mistake.

SHLOP! Saber's gone. Illya, thinking "What the heck," touches it and follows Saber and Shirou into a warped dimension, one which nobody ever can sin enough to deserve to go there.

The Shadowlight plain…