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...'

faltered into a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in

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

guttural scream ripped 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

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.

you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing his forehead against

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

itself would revive

on his back. At that moment, her

wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You

shook my head, biting down my

Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I choked on

a deep breath and

her dead body for days... until her body started to decompose and rot on

my last. I shut my eyes,

bear. It was his, and it was

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

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

in my mind with every heartbeat -

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All

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

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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

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

try everything she could to suppress

didn't see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from

want me to see, but those memories

if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some integral memories

***

time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground

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

ran towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the ruined

worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that

fire was constantly spreading, faster

stop Ezra were reduced to

shadows, dancing with the flames

is mutating at an

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging, it's

read out the data loudly

the first time, I saw carnal fear

showing a power surge. The source

within the walls is showing a rapid increase

energy is assembling into the

yelled above

subject's body is too weak to contain the

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