Author's Note:
This is going to be a longer story I had thought about for some time. While a 40k / ME crossover on the surface, it will elements from other stories, I'll let you figure out which ones I mean (although from the prologue's title its fairly obvious ^^)
I will try to get the Chapters out on a weekly basis, but no promises, since I just started university and these things take time to do right. I don't want to rush out an inferior story just to stay on schedule. So here's hoping you enjoy my new story and Emperor watch over you!
Chapter 0: That Which can Eternal Lie...
A stirring thought coursed through the ancient creature. A slight movement, the merest of quivers, ran through its body. Its eyes glinted slightly, ebony plates shifting as it was slowly roused from its slumber. Its mind observed these happenings with minor interest, the cycle had continued for aeons and it had grown accustomed to the process.
It turned its gaze towards the light before it, a mass of pinpricks vast beyond imagining. The galaxy spread like a carpet, its rings extending infinitely into the distance. As consciousness slowly returned to it, the creature flexed its ancient limbs, checking systems that had slept over the many millennia. It regarded the fellows at its flank, all slowly awakening once more after the long wait.
Yet, something caught its attention. As more of its mind awakened, it registered something. It turned its thoughts this strange occurrence, it was picking up something approaching. The creature paused, double checking the signals coming from its sensors. It turned its gaze at the inky black behind it.
Something was coming. The creature checked again, but there was no doubt. Something was arriving from that endless darkness, from the void between galaxies. The creature alerted its fellows, themselves also turning to meet this strange invader.
Its mind was now fully roused, its attention focused solely on the impossible signal. It was getting closer. The distant lights seemed to be enveloped in a hazy mist, slowly extending across the void.
It got closer still. The creature's fellows began priming their powerful weapons systems, it responding in similar fashion. The anomaly was almost on top of them.
A flicker of light emanated from the within the hazy darkness. It was followed by another, then another in rapid succession. A form began to build, as the flickering intensified. Red arcs of blinding light shot from some of its fellows, impacting against the invader's form.
A tendril suddenly burst from the darkness, a writhing apparition that enveloped one of the creature's fellows. In a blinding explosion, it was crushed. As more lances of light tore across the void towards it, the being lashed out with more of its strange tendrils.
The creature and its fellows kept up their attack. Then, a thrashing tendril appeared in front of the creature. As it saw the tendril rush towards it, its last thought was, 'Forgive me...Harbinger.' Then all turned to black. All around it, its fellows were cut down as well, their attacks meaningless before such a primordial being.
The alien being surveyed the galaxy at which it had arrived. Its mind filled with purpose, an unfathomable thought building inside.
'The Opener of the Way has Come...'