Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter 102

Chapter-102. The Last Survivor

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'We'll make it..."

Words stabbed out of Ezra's dry throat.

'We'll make it...'

His legs buckled under the unbearable weight of exhaustion and starvation, but he gritted his teeth, refusing to fall.

'We're almost there...'

His every step was a cruel punishment, as he pushed through the pain, punishing himself for his own weakness, but determined to keep going no matter the cost.

'We'll make it. Stay with me, Ellery. A little longer. A little further.'

His voice cracked, as hope and desperation bled into every word.

He had chanted the same words like prayers over a thousand times during their ten-day journey through a hell called hope.

And when they finally reached the gate, it was just the two of them - the last survivors. Everyone else had fallen.

Ezra collapsed against the gate, his breath ragged and uneven. With trembling hands, he gently eased Ellery to the ground, her back resting against the cold wall. Impatience surged through him when minutes passed, but the gate didn't open. 'We made it! We're here!' Ezra's fist slammed against the gate. 'Let us out! Open the gate!'

Ellery just stared at Ezra, her hollow eyes brimming with tears, silently begging him to stop.

'The gate... will open for... the last survivor...' Ellery mumbled, her voice barely more than a whisper.

Panic sank its claws into Ezra's dying hope, tearing it apart, but the gate didn't budge. He turned, frantic, searching for the hidden cameras, the eyes that monitored them.

'J-just take her out! I'll stay here. Help her. Please! I'm begging you...' he cried, his voice breaking as he got to his knees. Tears streaked his grime-covered face. Ellery weakly shook her head.

'Don't kneel... don't beg...' Ellery reached out to him as tears streamed down her hollow cheeks.

Scrubbing his tears away with the back of his hand, Ezra took Ellery's frail hand in his, his fingers shivering as they closed around hers.

'I'm sorry... Ezra... I-I...' Ellery took in laboured breaths.

'Don't talk. Save your energy-'

'I w-w-won't make it-'

'You will...' Ezra shook his head, refusing to accept the truth, his grip tightening around her hand as she caressed the dirt off his cheeks. 'Listen to me for once...' she smiled faintly through her tears, her chin quivering. 'You are our last hope.'

'No-'

'Live a long life, Ezra-' 'No-'

'Live for me...' Ellery struggled to breathe. 'Live for all of us... for e-everyone who couldn't make it. Ok? P-promise me... you'll live. Live a long happy life...'

took him in for one last time as if

It was as if she had stayed alive just

own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate.

no use. His shrieks reverberated in my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now

I'll forgive you. Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me

world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to

would

that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy

said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard

shook my head,

do this to yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I choked on my

a deep breath and spoke in a shaking

for days... until her body started to decompose and

blurred my vision, and each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation,

bear. It was his, and

could walk no more with Ellery's dead body on his back. Eventually, his mind shut down, and he fell," Asher said, staring at Ezra's eyes peering at Ellery's dead body with eyes more dead. An ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising like a storm in my chest. Before I

toward the clouds of memories, as though I could

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra is

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All

my ears ringing

***

happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the

blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several computer screens at

didn't see her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of her

the FA

see anything that Asher didn't want me to see,

inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories

***

the time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a house of

out of the walls walking amidst the

Raven, who were standing

like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that burnt everyone to dust

spreading, faster

to stop Ezra were

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that

is mutating

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging,

out the data

time, I saw

is showing a power surge. The source remains

the walls is showing a

is assembling

yelled

subject's body is too weak to

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