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

seeing how famous our fictions of weakness are and how powerful the humans' belief was at that time, I don't have much of

in the dark for the fantasies to die down until the mortals no longer believed

how

telling them when they do not see the use of it

for another civilization to be established around the

and discovering my people were suffering due to the lack of

It wasn't easy though...

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

It was one of those things that I cannot bear

to do that, but

value my virtue, particularly my

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

would question me at one point,

it can be, I had to watch them die in the process at a

out a sigh

infinite gift of life was a curse rather

I have an option to escape this

and tell my parents to find another

when they

my people's needs and performed

to me… my people's contentment and

and husky voice started, “But what really interests me now is your excuse

owner of the voice, I instantly ignored him and remained

gust of wind and felt

ignore a soul,” he pointed

soul, Raul?”

that, he gasped and quickly placed a hand on his

please stop calling me by my middle name — which by the way, I hated so much. And two, you're being so brutal for reminding me that I am dead. That's

rolled my eyes at his

that's the

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

only shrug my shoulders and kept my eyes

speak again, I heard Cayden let out a

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