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...'

serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful

froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last words to

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!

trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had

don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed,

was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to

the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it. We'll

his back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy

wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken.

my head, biting

Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..."

deep breath and spoke in a shaking

kept carrying her dead body for days... until her body started to decompose and rot on his

I shut my eyes,

wasn't mine to bear. It was his,

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

toward the clouds of memories, as though

hand gripped

hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat -

process the past from the present. All I knew was the

embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my

***

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

hear the danger alarms that blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data

she could to suppress whatever had gotten

the

then, I didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories remain in my

turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from

***

it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like

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

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

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

constantly spreading,

in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with

mutating at an alarming

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging, it's

out the data loudly from their monitoring

I saw carnal fear in my

is showing a power surge. The source remains

is showing a rapid increase in negative

is assembling into

researchers yelled above

subject's body is too weak

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