For those of you who have already read chapter 1, there is little new material (just a few paragraphs) - I am just cleaning up the story a little bit as I transition it from a one-shot to a multi-chapter story.

I am also going to move this story to the Fate/Stay Night & Future Diary Crossover category, so please check for it there.

chapter 3 (the first new chapter) is going to go up in a few days

prologue

The car rolled to a stop most of the way down the pier. It was inside an industrial park, so at this time of night, there was nobody around, and the the lights from the warehouse did not reach this far out. Moving quickly, two men got out of the car and popped open the trunk. While the driver took up a lookout position, the passenger, a huge hairy mountain, hauled a third man - either unconscious or dead - out of the trunk and threw him into the water. He had concrete around his lower legs, so he sank without a trace. The whole procedure was done quickly and efficiently - these two had obviously done this sort of thing before. As the two thugs were getting back in their car, one of them stopped to pick something up.

"What are you doing? Hurry." insisted the driver.

"I think this fell out of his pocket" The larger thug held up two sheets of paper that looked to have been torn from a notebook.

The driver reached over, and using a pen light gave the sheets a once over, "then why are they wet, you stupid fuck? And it looks like some sort of French poetry" He gave an exasperated sigh.

"Well, then, I'll keep them" The mountain daintily folded up the papers and slipped them into the inside pocket of his suit.

FSD*FSD

She had been floating, lost this endless place. At the same time, it was both completely empty and also filled with huge clockwork gears. She wasn't certain how long she had been here. Was it a year? 10 years? 10 thousand years? Time had no meaning. The only sensation she felt was a gnawing loneliness. At first it hadn't been so bad - she had had a purpose. But then she had failed. She had not able to find her way out of this place, and now she no longer even remembered what she had planned to do.

Her memories of the time before 'here' were faded and frayed. "Yuki" she whispered. she remembered Yuki. Or she thought she did. Panic filled her as she realized she couldn't put a face to the name.

FSD*FSD

"Shirou, can you help me out with something?" Ayako Mitsuzuri walked over to the Fake Janitor, "You're good at fixing thing - can you do cell phones too?"

"Ah, I'm not certain" Cell phones were a bit on the complicated end for his tracing ability to handle, but Shirou hated turning down any request for help, especially one from an attractive girl. "I can take a look at it this evening. What's wrong with it?"

"Well" Ayako looked a little embarrassed, "I found this cell phone a couple of weeks ago in the dojo, and nobody's claimed it, and there is no SIM card in it" she said in a quick rush of words as she held up a flip phone with an odd keychain fob dangling from the bottom. The fob was in the shape of a purple humanoid with silver hair, a little like the troll figures that were all the rage ten years ago, "And well, it's a cute phone, so I was wondering if you could check it out, see if it's working properly"

'Oh, that's not too hard' "Yeah, I can take a look" Shirou examined the phone before slipping it into his pocket. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

Ayako stood awkwardly for several moments, her hands clasped in front of her before finally saying "No. I guess I'll see you tomorrow." and walking off.

FSD*FSD

Pinpoint of light appeared in the distance. She was curious - this was the first new thing she had seen in an age, so she moved closer. It grew brighter and closer, until the light swallowed her.

"Will you be a champion, a Servant of the Grail?" a voice asked. She was in a white place now. She could not see the boundary of this space, but it was not the space between realities, the place of Akasha, where she had been before. It felt smaller, and artificial. After some thousands of years, her awareness of her home? Prison? had become quite fine.

"What is that?"she asked.

"You will act as a champion in the Holy Grail War. If you and your Master win, you will each be granted a wish." replied the sourceless voice. It sounded masculine.

"Any wish? I wish to be with my Yuki!" She pronounced.

"Will you be a champion, a Servant of the Grail?" The voice sounded pre-recorded, somehow.

"Yes!" Yuno Gasai proclaimed. Information slammed into her mind like a bolt of lightning, blinding and stunning her.

END