Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter 102

Chapter-102. The Last Survivor

[Xanthea]

'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...'

gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in

light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say

guttural scream ripped from his chest as he punched the gate with brutal, wild force. His fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting the

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

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

no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he

He called out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it.

her lifeless body on his back. At that

distant, broken. 'You

my head, biting down

yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I

a deep breath and spoke in a

her body started to decompose

might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate

to bear. It was his, and it

body with eyes more dead. An ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising

out toward the clouds

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every

reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the

my ears ringing from

***

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

and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't

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

see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though

anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories

turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they

***

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

of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone that came in

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe

prove that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.'

fire was constantly spreading, faster than the

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the

is mutating at

DNA is breaking

It's

read out the data loudly from their monitoring

the first time, I saw

showing a power

within the walls is showing

assembling into

researchers yelled above

is too

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