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…

hide my kind and

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

no longer believed in it — as we had never

that's how a

see the use of it any longer, or if they wanted to begin

almost a decade and for another civilization to be established

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

It wasn't easy though...

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

was one of those things that I cannot bear to

known to do

my virtue,

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

multiple times in a year and surely, they would question me at one point, since I never aged or look different by the passing of

it all, and sadly as it can be, I had to watch

let out a sigh

of life was a curse

an

back in time and tell my parents to find another one to love

when they

my people's needs and

to me… my people's contentment

always do.” I heard a low and husky voice started, “But what really interests me now is your excuse on the question of how long will you be standing, by that stone pillar, and watch as your dark subjects find

of the voice, I instantly ignored him and remained still

wind and felt

to ignore a soul,”

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

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

so much. And two, you're being so

rolled my eyes

that's the point. So

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

only shrug my shoulders and kept my eyes locked in the

speak again, I heard

the reason why the gods