The World in the Grey Sky
A Space Battleship Yamato 2199/Warhammer 40k crossover
"We are coming out of the Warp Captain." "Alright, prepare for reemergence into realspace."
The Dauntless class cruiser, Maiden, flew out of the Warp and a slight shudder went throughout the ship. The Captain, a man named Kanus Fischer, looked out the bridge windows in puzzlement for something was not right. Instead of the normal blackness of space, there was nothing but bright grey clouds as far as the eye could see. The helmsman cried out "Captain! The helm isn't responding it's as if it has a mind of its own!"
Before he could say anything Kanus felt the sub-light engines activate and ship started to move towards an unknown destination. He turned to the Navigator and said "Can you figure out where we are? The Navigator shook his head "The Astronomican is not visible, we are outside of its range." Kanus could hear a twinge of fear in his voice as he said this.
As the ship continued to move a break in the clouds became apparent and a bright light was emanating from within it. The ship moved into the break and what was within made some members of the bridge crew give small gasps. It was an average sized planet covered in more light grey clouds but that wasn't what was unusual about it. The unusual thing was that it had a bright beam of light running through both poles which lighted the space around it, surrounding this beam and the planet were 9 rings, with the largest being around the planet's equator.
The ship was drawn into the planet's atmosphere and the light from the beam gradually diminished leaving the Maiden surrounded by darkness. What little they could see scared Kanus, tall spires covered with mysterious, intricate carvings which stuck out of a restless sea.
The crew so engrossed by what they were seeing and arguing about what to do, didn't notice that something was on the bridge with them. A humanoid shadow rested on the wall behind them, its arms raised. All of a sudden the shadow moved with supernatural speed right behind Kanus and whispered in his ear.
"Eyes reflect darkness, and ears hear silence. Those who take the Darkness to be reality and are swallowed up by the Silence, will be destroyed by their distrust."
Kanus whipped around drawing his pistol but nothing was there. He turned back around and saw the ship's Commissar staring at him intensely. He slid the pistol back into the holster, and looked around again.
Down in the lower decks of the ship an Armsman on patrol fell to his knees, hands over his ears. All he could hear was relentless singing, no louder than a whisper, in a language he did not recognize. And above him loomed a shadow.