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...'

him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have

eyes froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just

from 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.

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 Ezra crumpled on

I'll forgive you... don't you

that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself

out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it. We'll make

At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy and unbearably

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

shook my head, biting

this to yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just

deep breath and spoke in

her body started to decompose and rot

it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it only seemed

It was his, and

until he could walk no more 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.

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

Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

that moment, I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the

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

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empty memories that

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

to suppress whatever

home to the FA facility,

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

knew if they were to hide

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facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were

stood petrified as she witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames

standing on the ruined grounds at

your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged

spreading, faster than

in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes

looming shadows, dancing with the

DNA is mutating at an alarming

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

out the

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

a power surge. The

is showing a rapid increase

energy is assembling into

yelled above

body is too weak to contain

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