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…

I decided to hide my kind and learn

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

I waited in the dark for the fantasies to die down until the mortals no

that's how a

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

decade and for another civilization

suffering due to the

It wasn't easy though...

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

my favorite. It was one of those things that I cannot

is known to do that, but I was raised

virtue, particularly my

meet the same individual that was helping me construct my vision for

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

it can be, I had to watch them

let out a sigh at the

was a curse

do I have an

and tell my parents

they

provided my people's needs and performed what

to me… my people's contentment

what really interests me now is your excuse on the question of how long will you

the owner of the voice, I instantly ignored him and

a gust of wind and felt a

rude to ignore a soul,” he pointed out,

you ever had a soul, Raul?” I asked and glanced at my foolish

quickly placed a hand on his chest.

— which by the way, I hated so much. And two, you're being so brutal for reminding me that I

only rolled my eyes at

the point. So

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

only shrug my shoulders and kept my eyes

speak again, I

the reason why the gods above didn't grant