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…

hide my kind and learn to

admit that. Though, seeing how famous our fictions of weakness are and how powerful the

no longer believed in it — as we had never been real in the first

that's how a story

of it any longer, or if they

a decade and for another

sensing no trouble anymore and discovering my people were suffering due to the lack of permanent residences and food, I

It wasn't easy though...

years; had to watched different plagues sweep the world, and even observed technologies improved and ultimately

was one of those things that I cannot

to do that, but I was raised well and with

value my virtue, particularly

since I have to meet the same individual that was helping me construct my vision for

me at

all, and sadly as it can be, I had to watch them die in the process

out a sigh

of life was a curse rather than

have an option to

in time and tell my

they are

that I have provided my people's needs and performed what was expected

to me… my

what really interests me now is your excuse on the

owner of the voice, I instantly ignored him and remained still in

heard a gust of wind and felt a

ignore a soul,” he pointed out,

ever had a soul, Raul?” I asked and

and quickly placed a hand on his chest. Then, he shot me a fake

by the way, I hated so much. And two, you're being so

my eyes at

that's the point.

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shrug my shoulders and kept

will not speak again, I heard Cayden let out a defeated

why the