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...'

time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and

in them. It was as

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

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 that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared down the walls, leaving dark trails

don't you

he realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a

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

back. At that moment, her weight seemed

his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably

head, biting down

please... stop... just stop now..." I choked on

a deep breath and spoke

days... until her body

I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the

wasn't mine to bear. It was

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 knew,

clouds of memories, as though I

Asher's hand gripped mine,

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat

process the past from the present. All I knew

his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing

***

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

and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data

could to suppress whatever had gotten

drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running

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

longer knew if they were

***

the time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the

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

standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance

worth. Go, bring Ezra home.'

was constantly spreading, faster than the

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in a

doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows,

mutating

is breaking

It's rearranging, it's

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly from

the first time, I saw carnal fear in my mother's

is showing a power

ground within the walls is showing a

is assembling into the

yelled

body is too weak to

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