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

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

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

that's how a

stop telling them when they do not see the use of it any longer, or if they

took almost a decade and for another civilization to be

people were suffering due to the

It wasn't easy though...

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

shifting from one identity to another was the least of my favorite. It was one of

may be a Vampire that is known to do that, but I was

value my virtue, particularly my

needed since I have to meet the

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

be, I had to watch them

a sigh at

life was a

do I have an option to escape

not go back in time and tell my parents to find another one

they are

I have provided my people's

all that matters to me… my

“But what really interests me now is your excuse on the question of how long will you be standing, by that stone

owner of the voice, I instantly ignored him and

gust of wind and felt a

to ignore a soul,” he pointed out,

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

placed a hand on his

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

my

that's the point. So

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shoulders and kept my eyes locked in the

I will not speak again, I heard Cayden let out

mumbled, “Maybe that's the reason why the gods above didn't grant you a second chance at a