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...'

for one last time as if

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

force. His fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration,

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

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

was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing

would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still

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

broken. 'You heard them, didn't

shook my head, biting

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

deep breath and spoke

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

felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes,

pain wasn't mine to bear. It was his, and

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

the clouds of memories, as though I could

Asher's hand

in my mind with every heartbeat

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

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

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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 a sharp,

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

she could to suppress whatever had gotten out

she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away

me

in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some

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ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like

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

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

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

was constantly spreading, faster than

in the fire to stop

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

subject's DNA is mutating

DNA is

It's rearranging, it's

healers read out the data loudly

I saw carnal

is showing a power surge.

within the walls is

is assembling into

researchers yelled

subject's body is too weak to contain

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