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...'

as

them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say

met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM!

out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared

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

Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he limped

called out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive

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

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

shook my head, biting down my

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

and spoke in a shaking

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

my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block

to bear. It

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

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

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra is

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

clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact

***

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

my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several

to

home to the FA facility, as though she was running

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

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

***

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

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

were standing on the ruined

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

was constantly spreading, faster than the

fire to stop

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the

is mutating

DNA is

It's rearranging,

healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

saw carnal fear in my

a

within the walls is showing a rapid

assembling into

researchers yelled above

subject's body is too weak

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