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

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

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

how a story

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

it took almost a decade and for another civilization to be established

to the lack of permanent residences and

It wasn't easy though...

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

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

be a Vampire that is known to do

value my virtue,

the same individual that was helping

they would question me at one point, since I never aged or look

all, and sadly as it can be, I had to watch them die in the

let out a

life was a curse

do I have an option to escape this

tell my parents to

they are destined

I have provided my people's needs and

all that matters to me… my people's

was beginning to believe that you were going to bail this out again like you 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

the voice, I instantly ignored him and remained still

wind and felt a presence

it's rude to ignore a soul,” he pointed out,

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

that, he gasped and quickly placed a hand on

name — which by the way, I hated so much. And two, you're being so brutal for reminding me

only rolled my eyes at his

the point. So

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shrug my shoulders and kept my eyes locked in the

I heard Cayden

“Maybe that's the reason why the gods above