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...'

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

time as the light dimmed in them. It was

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,

no use. His shrieks reverberated in my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage.

I'll forgive you... don't you fucking

into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand,

called out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her.

At that moment, her

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

head,

stop... just stop now..." I choked on my

took a deep breath and spoke in a shaking

carrying her dead body for days... until her body

blurred my vision, and each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut

It was his,

no more with Ellery's dead body 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

out toward the clouds of memories, as

could, Asher's hand gripped

exploded in my mind with

couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of

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

***

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

office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around

everything she could to suppress whatever had

panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she

didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to

no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories

***

The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had

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

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

you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the

was constantly spreading, faster

stop Ezra were reduced to

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

DNA is mutating at an alarming

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging,

read out the data loudly from

I saw carnal fear in my

a

walls is

is assembling into

yelled above

is too weak to

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