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

them. It was as if she had stayed alive just

his chest 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 his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting the air with a distressing

trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never

and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon

imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself

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 both

his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't

my head, biting down

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

breath and spoke in a shaking

days... until her body

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

It

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

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

I could, Asher's hand gripped

words exploded in my mind with

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

me into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the

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but I didn't look. I 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

howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking

see her try everything she could to suppress

the

Asher didn't want me to see,

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

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facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything

moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters

Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing

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

constantly spreading,

fire to stop Ezra were reduced to

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing

DNA is mutating at an

DNA is breaking

wait! It's

healers read out the data loudly

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

body is showing a power surge. The source remains

ground within the walls is showing a

energy is assembling into

yelled

too weak to

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