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...'

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

in them. It

his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles

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

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

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

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

body on his back. At that moment,

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

my head, biting down my

stop... just

and spoke

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

it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

It was his, and it

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 could cross time and space

the clouds of memories, as

hand gripped

in my

rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present.

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

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empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the

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

everything she could to suppress whatever

didn't 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

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

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

walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters

standing on the

Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames

fire was constantly spreading, faster than the

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in

looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled the

is mutating at an alarming

is breaking

wait! It's

of surviving healers read out the data loudly from

the first time, I saw carnal fear

subject body is showing a power surge. The

whole ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase

assembling

yelled

subject's body is too weak to contain

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