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...'

into a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and

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

his own bones, blood

shut my ears, but it was 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 that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared down the walls, leaving dark trails as

and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing his forehead

into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he limped to

the name itself would revive

carried her lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed

wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't

head, biting

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

breath and

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

be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

bear. It was

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, I was on my feet, scrambling forward as though I

clouds

could, Asher's hand

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat -

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the

clenched his overcoat, my ears

***

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

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

see her try everything she could to suppress whatever

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

anything that Asher didn't want me to

knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some integral

***

mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black

she witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone that

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

just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra

was constantly spreading, faster than the

the fire to stop

like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that

subject's DNA is mutating at

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging, it's

out the data

time, I saw

body is showing a power

is showing a rapid increase

is assembling

yelled above the

is too weak to contain the

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