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...'

time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have

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

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

shut 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 down the walls, leaving dark trails

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

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

soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it. We'll make

At that moment, her

his voice distant, broken. 'You heard

head, biting down

stop... just stop now..." I

deep breath and spoke in a shaking

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

last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

wasn't mine to bear. It was

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,

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I

Asher's hand

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with

couldn't process the past from the present.

clenched 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.

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

she could to

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

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

no longer knew if they were to hide me from

***

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

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

ran towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance

prove that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra

spreading, faster

in the fire to stop Ezra were

like looming shadows, dancing with

subject's DNA is mutating

is

It's

of surviving healers read out

the first time, I saw carnal fear in my

is showing a power surge.

whole ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase

energy is assembling

researchers yelled above the

body is too weak to contain

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