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

was 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

die down until the mortals no longer believed in it —

how a

them when they do not see the use of it any

almost a decade and for another civilization to be established around

no trouble anymore and discovering my people were suffering due to the

It wasn't easy though...

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

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

Vampire that is known to do

my virtue,

conspiracies were needed since I have to meet the same individual

would question me at one point, since I never aged or look different by the

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

let out a sigh

was a curse rather than a

an option to escape

tell my parents to find another one to love and

when they

I have provided my people's needs and performed

that matters to me… my people's contentment

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

instantly ignored him and remained still

wind and

rude to ignore a soul,” he pointed out,

a soul, Raul?” I asked and glanced at

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

stop calling me by my middle name — which by the way, I hated so

my eyes

that's the point.

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

kept my eyes locked in

will not speak again, I heard Cayden let out a

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