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...'

one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in

wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if

the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own

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

Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing his forehead

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

in a soft voice, as though the name itself would

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

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

head,

to yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just

took a deep breath and spoke

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

felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but

bear. It was

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 cross time and

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could

could, Asher's hand

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra is

mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that

clenched his overcoat, my ears

***

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

screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother

didn't see her try everything she could to

home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something or...

me to see, but those memories remain

the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to

***

The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black

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

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

my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring

constantly spreading, faster than

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows,

subject's DNA is mutating at an

DNA is breaking

wait! It's

out the data loudly from

I saw carnal fear in my mother's

a

ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

energy is assembling into

yelled above the

too weak to contain

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