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...'

a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful

of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed

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

so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had

you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed,

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

though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay

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

voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably gate number

shook my head, biting down my

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

took a deep breath and

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

I shut my eyes, desperate to block

mine to bear. It was his, and it was

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. An ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising like a

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

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

in my mind

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

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

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memories played on, 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 like black glass exploding with

I didn't see my mother frantically looking around

her try everything she could to suppress whatever

from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something or...

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

longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide

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ruins. The walls were shattered;

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

ran towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on

bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that burnt

spreading,

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were

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

subject's DNA is mutating at

is breaking

wait! It's rearranging,

group of surviving healers read out the

saw carnal fear

a power surge.

the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

is assembling

researchers yelled

too weak to

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