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...'

took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a

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

his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the

my ears, but it was no use. His shrieks reverberated in my chest; a force 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. Blood smeared

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

world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to

the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it.

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

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

head, biting down

stop... just

deep breath and

until her body started to decompose and rot

breath felt like it might be my last. I shut

It

eyes peering at Ellery's dead body with eyes more dead. An ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising like a storm in my chest.

clouds of memories, as though I

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

my mind with every heartbeat

I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I

his overcoat, my ears ringing from the

***

but I didn't look. I didn't hear the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I

blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several computer screens at the

everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of her

home to the FA facility, as though

want me to see, but those

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

***

in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a house of

Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance from

my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to

fire was constantly spreading, faster

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were

Ezra like looming shadows,

DNA is mutating

DNA is breaking

wait! It's

out the data loudly from their monitoring

saw carnal

body is showing a power

walls is showing a

assembling into the

researchers yelled

too

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