Alpha's Nala

Theo

Times had changed.

That's all I could think of as I watched the mortals mingled with my people, whom I should note were all creatures of the dark.

Back in the old days, humans feared our existence.

Only at the mention of our name, they would cower away from us and tightly locked their homes at night. For extra precaution, they always have garlic on their bedside table or bound around their necks.

Funny thing.

Through the years, as the fear grew inside of them, resulting in clouding their minds, they started to fight back with stakes and crosses.

I chuckled at the idea.

Little did they know, those things have no effect on us.

Let alone, kill us…

For over a millennium, there's no vampires — nor witches — reported dead because of the above-mentioned weapons.

We are immune to all of it; Hollywood's movie version doesn't justify any of our weaknesses.

I don't even know if they know any of it...

Until a century ago, they started reciting stories.

By now, I could tell how perplexed you are about the idea of stories being our drawback...

It's unusual and a unique approach, to be honest, but it's the most effective weapon in human history that could actually harm us.

How?

Stories about our weakness, and coming from thy lips of a human, makes us mortal.

It could start off with someone saying that a stake could stop a vampire's heartbeat or holy water to burn a vampire's skin. When a new individual heard about it and told someone else, and that someone else delivered the same story to another, and so on, the tale about the disadvantages becomes true.

I don't know if it's the power in telling or the strong belief of the human heart that makes it real, but it's there.

It's fatal and dangerous, and it's destroying my race to no end…

decided to hide my kind

how famous our fictions of weakness are and how powerful the humans' belief was at

until the mortals no longer believed in it — as

that's how

the use of it any longer, or if they wanted to begin and create a new

took almost a decade and for another civilization to

suffering due to the lack of permanent

It wasn't easy though...

of transitions for the past years; had to watched different plagues

my favorite. It was one of those things that I cannot bear to do for I hated deceiving

may be a Vampire that is known to do that, but I was raised

value my virtue, particularly my

were needed since I have to meet the same individual

times in a year and surely, they would question me at one point, since I never aged or look different

sadly as it can be, I had to watch

a

this infinite gift of life was a curse

have an option to

in time and tell my parents to find another one to love and

when they

just grateful that I have provided my people's needs and performed what

all that matters to me… my people's contentment

voice started, “But what really interests me now is your excuse on the question of how long will you be standing, by that stone pillar, and watch as your dark subjects

I instantly ignored

of wind and felt a presence

ignore a soul,” he

soul, Raul?” I

placed a hand on his chest. Then, he shot

stop calling me by my middle name — which by the way, I hated so much. And two, you're being so brutal for

rolled my eyes at his

the

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

my shoulders and kept my eyes locked in

I

him mumbled, “Maybe that's the reason why the gods above didn't grant you a second