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

in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as

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

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

forgive you... don't you

world imploded into a void of

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

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

voice distant, broken.

my head, biting down my

do this to yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I choked on my

a deep breath and spoke

kept carrying her dead body for days... until her body started to

might be my last. I shut

bear. It

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,

the clouds of memories,

hand gripped mine, pulling

Three words exploded in my mind with every

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

clenched his overcoat, my

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silence - in the dark, empty memories that

office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around

everything she could to suppress whatever had

panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away

see anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories remain in

knew if

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were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like

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

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at

bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the

fire was constantly spreading, faster than the

troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing

mutating at an

DNA is

It's rearranging, it's

read out the data loudly

saw carnal fear in

is showing a

is showing a rapid increase in negative

is assembling

yelled above

subject's body is too

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