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…

to hide my kind and learn to

weakness are and how powerful the humans' belief was at that time,

I waited in the dark for the fantasies to die down until the mortals no longer believed in it — as we had never been real in the first

how a

when they do not see the use of it any longer, or if they wanted to

took almost a decade and for another civilization to be established around

the lack of permanent residences and food,

It wasn't easy though...

had to undergo a lot of transitions for the past years; had to watched

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

do that,

virtue, particularly my

the frauds and conspiracies were needed since I have to meet the same individual that was helping me construct my vision

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

had to watch them die in the process

out a

of life was a curse rather

an option to escape

my parents to find another one to love and

they are destined

my people's needs and

that matters to me… my

started, “But what really interests me

I instantly ignored him

I heard a gust of wind

ignore a soul,” he pointed out, making me

soul, Raul?” I

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

I hated so much. And two, you're being so brutal for reminding

only rolled my eyes

that's the point. So

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shrug my shoulders and kept my

again, I heard Cayden let out a defeated

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