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 learn to

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

for the fantasies to die down until the mortals no longer believed in it — as we

that's how a story

they do not see the use of it any longer, or if they wanted to begin and

and for another civilization to be established around the

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

It wasn't easy though...

had to watched different plagues

It was one of those

a Vampire that is known to do that, but

value my virtue, particularly my

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

a year and surely, they would question me at

as it can be, I had

a

of life was a

do I have an option to escape

my parents to find another one to love

they

I have provided my people's needs and

all that matters to me… my people's contentment and

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 standing, by that stone pillar, and watch as your dark subjects find their REDs?”

voice, I instantly ignored him and remained still in my

wind and felt

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

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

he gasped and quickly placed a hand on his chest. Then, he

middle name — which by the way, I hated so much. And

my eyes

that's the

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shrug my shoulders and kept

not speak again, I heard Cayden let out

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