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…

my kind

cowardly move, I admit that. Though, seeing how famous our fictions of weakness are and

down until the mortals no longer believed in it — as we had never been

how a

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

almost a decade and for another

trouble anymore and discovering my people were suffering due to the lack of permanent residences and food, I

It wasn't easy though...

transitions for the past years; had to watched

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

known to do that, but I was raised

virtue, particularly my

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

occurred multiple times in a year and surely, they would question me at

it can be, I had to watch them

a

of life was a curse rather than a

do I have an option

in time and tell my parents to find

they

grateful that I have provided my

all that matters to me… my people's

a low and husky voice started, “But what really interests me now is

I instantly ignored him

heard a gust of wind and felt a presence

to ignore a soul,” he pointed out,

Raul?” I asked and

he gasped and quickly placed a hand on his chest. Then, he

which by the way, I hated so much. And two, you're being so brutal for reminding me that I am dead. That's overkill already, your Majesty.”

my eyes at his

the

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shrug my shoulders and kept

again, I heard Cayden let out a defeated

that's the reason why the gods