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...'

one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in the lost

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

punched the gate with brutal, wild force. His fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own

trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that

you... don't you fucking abandon me now...'

realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing

though the name itself would

At that moment, her weight seemed both

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

head,

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

breath and

her body

like it might be my last. I shut

bear. It was his, and

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 feet, scrambling forward as though I could

clouds of memories, as though I

hand gripped mine,

words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

the present. All I knew was the

overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my own

***

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

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

try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

her home to the FA facility, as though she was

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

embrace was a comfort in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide

***

time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had

the walls walking amidst the

standing on the ruined grounds

bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter

constantly spreading, faster

diving in the fire to stop Ezra

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

mutating

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

out the data loudly

saw carnal fear

subject body is showing a

is showing a rapid increase in

assembling into

researchers yelled

subject's body is too weak to contain

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