The Blood Nexus

Summary: At the Sun & Moon Academy, Aerrow gets chosen as a feeder for the vampire class president, the Dark Ace. DA/A yaoi, blood, violence, vampires. Y'know, the good stuff.

Pairing: Dark Ace/Aerrow, some Finn/Stork

Warnings: Vampires, explicit yaoi, blood, violence, language

Disclaimer: Storm Hawks is owned by NerdCorps, Vampire Knight is owned by Matsuri Hino. Some of these ideas, like the feeder thing, are from user LN-manga at .

Chapter 1: Feeder Program

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It was my first week at the Sun & Moon Academy, and I gotta say, I was really happy, here. My teachers are great, the fight club is fun, and I got my best friends by my side.

Even the vampires seem nice.

I've heard all the rumors already, and I've only been here for three days. All the basics, too, like "The vampires are gonna kill us while we sleep" or "We have mixers so they can smell our fear". The headmaster of this school made things very clear on our first day: He wants vampires and humans to live together in peace, and that's why he started this school.

I couldn't agree more with the headmaster. I wouldn't have come to this school if I was afraid. Besides, we don't even take classes together. The humans take day classes, and vampires take night classes. We even have separate dorms. There was nothing to worry about.

But… I never took falling in love into the equation.

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"The Feeder Program?" Finn asked, reading the paper on the bulletin board. "What's that?"

"Well, Finn, maybe if you were paying attention during the orientation instead of fooling around with Stork, you would know." Piper pointed a nagging finger at our dumb-blonde friend.

"Well, maybe if YOU were fooling around with Stork, you'll understand why I wasn't paying attention!" Finn got her back. Stork sighed, his face turning pink.

"It's for the rich vampires, Finn, so they don't have to go out and feed." Junko explained. "They pick whoever's blood they like best, and that person becomes their feeder."

"Do we have to do that?" Stork asked. "Rumors say that the feeders don't last very long. Shrivel up like raisins. Or those blood-sucking fiends could kill us, anyway."

"I don't think the rumors are true, Stork." I said, patting his shoulder. "But, yeah, we all have to put our blood in. Only a few students get chosen, though. You might be lucky."

"I hope so. I don't taste good." Stork whispered. I rolled my eyes.

"Aw, I think you taste great, buddy." Finn nuzzled his boyfriend's cheek. "I don't know about your blood, though. Besides, I'll never let those vampires eat you!" He pounded his chest heroically. "Ow."

"Oh, come on, guys." I tried to reason with them. "The vampires here don't do stuff like that. If they did, they'd be kicked out."

"Aerrow's right." Piper said, agreeing with me, as she usually did. "They're just rumors. This school is perfectly safe."

The bell was about to ring, so we started for class. I took one last look at the news-board.

Blood due tomorrow.

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The last bell finally rang, and we all went straight to the nurse to get our blood samples for the Feeders program. After that, we had to drop it off in front of the Moon dorm, where the vampires lived. The vice-president of the class, Ravess, was collecting the blood samples.

"Hm… I can already tell that these are no good." Ravess snarled. "Maybe I should just throw them out." Well, she was obviously a human-hater.

"Excuse me?" Piper stepped up. She could be very nice, but when she or any of us get insulted (without her consent) she gets bitchy.

"You heard me, filthy human." Ravess barked back, her lips curling menacingly. "Go back to your mediocre dorms where you belong."

"Augh! How dare you!" Piper screamed.

Piper continued to argue with the vice-president, but I didn't feel like stopping her this time. I simply turned my attention to the dorm buildings. They were really nice, I admit. Some of the vampires that come here are apparently quite wealthy, so they're able to afford such dorms. They even put some money in to spruce up the Sun dorms, but theirs are still nicer.

And then, I saw a figure in the window. I squinted a little so I could see him better. He was a very tall, handsome vampire, with thick, black hair and sideburns. He was leaning on the frame casually, with his arms crossed over his broad chest. His face was chiseled. And his eyes… his eyes were a beautiful, dark shade of red. Almost like blood. On top of all that, he looked so… familiar.

And he was staring right at me, but I didn't look away. I felt trapped… hypnotized…

"Aerrow!" I heard a voice call.

"Huh?" I finally broke out of the trance, and turned towards the voice. It was Junko's.

"You okay, buddy?" He asked, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Uh yeah, I'm fine." I said, looking back up at the window. But he was gone, the drapes inside that window flowing steadily.

"Let's go guys, before the queens kill each other." Finn gestured towards Piper and Ravess.

"Come on, Piper." I said to her, taking her arm.

"Yeah, back to our 'mediocre' dorms." She snarled towards Ravess. The vampire girl just stuck up her nose and turned away.

As we walked home, I couldn't help but wonder who that vampire was. Why was he so familiar to me? Did he know me?

Little did I know, I would find out the answers soon enough.

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