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 to

seeing how famous our fictions of weakness are and how powerful the humans' belief was at that time,

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

that's how a

when they do not see the use of it

a decade and for another civilization to be established around

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

It wasn't easy though...

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

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

be a Vampire that is known to do

value my virtue, particularly

I have to meet the same individual that was helping

multiple times in a year and surely, they would question me at one point, since

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

let out a sigh

gift of life was

have an option to

go back in time and tell my parents to

they are

grateful that I have provided my people's

me… my people's contentment and

husky voice started, “But what really interests me

of the voice, I instantly

of wind and

it's rude to ignore a

a soul, Raul?”

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

so 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.

only rolled my eyes at

that's the

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

only shrug my shoulders and kept my

will not speak again, I heard Cayden let out a

why the gods above didn't grant you a