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Summary: AU. The Coordinators have heightened abilities, and then some, but it all comes with a blood price. When Kira and Cagalli moved to Cornicupris, they didn't know that they'd likely be meeting their new "friends" on the wrong end of a fang. Caught in an underground war between vampires and vampire hunters, Kira and Cagalli, and their spirit forms, Strike and Rouge, must 1. stay away from vampires whom they find themselves increasingly attracted to, and 2. find a way to stop the war before an all-out genocide erupts…and neither side is left standing.
Vampires of Cornicupris
1: Shuttle
Kira's POV
A small part on the side of his neck started itching. It intensified. Then, it BURNED…
Kira awoke with a start, feeling Strike's cool body next to his cheek. Strike was perched on his left shoulder, his hand-size mecha body glowing with tiny runes on the forearms, cradling the spirit form within. Strike's alternative body, a small mechanical bird, was safely packed away with their other luggage. He laid a small hand at the base of Kira's neck, partly to steady himself, and partly to comfort him.
"Kira, is something wrong?"
"Nothing. Just a dream, is all."
"Well, you've been having the same dream for nearly a week now…And I think it's getting worse."
Kira stayed silent. He should have known that Strike would know, since he was an extension of himself. It shouldn't surprise him anymore that Strike would dream the same dreams.
He shook his head, clearing the dream away. It didn't do anything to reassure him of his future at Cornicupris. It also didn't bode well that the shuttle that was taking them there was nearly empty. But then again, perhaps that was because of the Natural and Coordinator rift. Cornicupris was the only true bicultural colony, even considering Orb and Heliopolis, most Naturals never venturing far from the surface of Earth, and most Coordinators never leaving the PLANTS.
Even Orb and Heliopolis, countries that were openly welcome to Coordinators, never had more than two or three Coordinator occupants at a time.
Rubbing his eyes sleepily, he looked over to his other classmates. Sai and Flay were in the seats behind him, their spirit forms holding their miniature mecha hands in between the sleeping pair, and across the aisle sat Tolle and Mirr, deeply in conversation. Kuzzey, still asleep, had his head lolled over to one side and was drooling slightly.
The only other occupant was a blonde-haired girl that had come to Heliopolis from Orb. Apparently, even less people from Orb wanted to go to Cornicupris, so the flight had been cancelled, and she had been forced to come to Heliopolis first. Kira wasn't surprised that she was still asleep. Interestingly enough, the body of her spirit form was a red version of Strike's body.
Kira checked his watch. Exactly four hours until docking. Reassured that Strike would wake him should he oversleep, he closed his eyes again and hoped for sweeter dreams.
Cagalli POVCagalli was too tired to even try to go to sleep. Damn that shuttle cancellation, she thought bitterly. A trip around the world didn't even take as much time. Fortunately, Rouge was sleeping soundly at the crook of her arm, so she wouldn't be a total zombie when they finally arrived. It was strange, to be awake when your spirit-form was asleep. It made one feel as if one were half-asleep herself, and everything was out of focus…though Cagalli didn't think that any true sleep was forthcoming.
Cornicupris…a city on the moon. She had gone to a prep school there once, but only for a short time, before her teachers had told her father sadly that there was no hope in even attempting to make her a lady. She smiled at the memory. Now, she had to go back for some sort of boarding school, probably for the next few years until she had earned her designation to be a monarch-in-waiting of Orb.
She declined bodyguards. She didn't need them, and besides, she'd rather marry Yuuna right there and then than to be escorted to school by a whole entourage. Yuuna…that purple-haired jerk was one of her main reasons for going to Cornicupris in the first place.
The pilot's voice came drifted over from the cabin. "Hey kids, we're almost there." With only a handful of them there, he didn't even bother with the intercom. Rouge stirred.
"We're there? Finally!"
They looked over to the window, and saw the moon's surface. Cornicupris was about half the size of Orb, and covered a little over a half of the moon's surface. She barely caught a glimpse of grey rock and sand before Cornicupris came into view.
She heard that Cornicupris was a meeting of PLANT and Earth technology. But considering that it was such a wonder, Cagalli was surprised at its size. Even though it was a rather large country, it was sparsely populated, getting denser as one moved towards the middle. It probably had a quarter of the Orb population.
She quickly cleared all comparisons to Orb out of her head. It didn't do to get homesick this early into her little journey. Classes wouldn't even start for another week.
She braced herself as the shuttle came to a halt. The sleeping kid behind her jumped awake, his spirit-form falling off his arm as he did so. The other occupants got up and unloaded, chatting. They all seemed to know each other…
"Well, you can always go and introduce yourself," Rouge hissed. Cagalli flushed. All her other classmates were back at Orb. She didn't know anyone here.
Change scene: dorm rooms, Cornicupris AcademyIt is a predictable arrangement: an all-boy dorm, an all-girl dorm. But further than that, there is also an all-Natural dorm, and an all-Coordinator dorm. There are strict, unsaid rules about no mixing, and even the staff administrators and the master computers know them by heart.
However, it seems as though for a couple of kids, a mistake was made.
Kira Yamato would be placed in dorm-room 674. Roommates: Athrun Zala, Nicol Armafi.
Cagalli Yula Attha would be placed in dorm-room 574. Roommates: Meyrin Hawke, Lacus Clyne.
