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

eyes froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It

fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and

to break out of my ribcage. It

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

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

out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with

back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly

got the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You

head, biting down my

please... stop... just

breath and spoke in a

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

I shut my eyes, desperate

to bear. It was his,

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.

Ezra..." I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could somehow

I could, Asher's hand gripped

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I had

his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my

***

didn't hear the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like

alarms that blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my

her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out

from her home to the FA facility, as though she

I didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to see,

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

***

reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a house of

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

who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance from

your worth. Go, bring Ezra

constantly spreading, faster

the fire to stop Ezra

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled

mutating at an alarming

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

out

first time, I saw carnal fear in

body is showing a power surge.

walls is

is assembling

researchers yelled above

is too weak to

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