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…

to hide my kind and learn

famous our fictions of weakness are and how powerful the humans' belief was at that time,

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

that's how a

the use of it any longer, or if they wanted

and for another civilization

people were suffering due to the lack of permanent residences and food,

It wasn't easy though...

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

shifting from one identity to another was the least of my favorite. It was one of those things that I cannot bear to do for I hated deceiving

is known to do that, but

my virtue, particularly

meet the same individual that was

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

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

out a sigh

infinite gift of life was a curse rather

I have an option to

and tell my parents to

when they

have provided my people's

that matters to me… my people's contentment and

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,

voice, I instantly ignored him and

of wind and felt

a soul,” he

you ever had a soul, Raul?” I asked

quickly placed a hand on

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

my

that's the point. So

He gasped loudly again.

“You are so cold.”

shrug my shoulders and kept my

I heard Cayden let out

mumbled, “Maybe that's the reason why the gods