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...'

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

dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say

with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and

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

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

realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void

name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery.

his back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy and unbearably

voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably

my head, biting down my

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

and spoke in

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

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

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

walked and walked until he could walk 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 ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising like a storm in my chest. Before I knew,

clouds of memories,

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

in my mind with

I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew

into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my

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in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those

that blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I

to suppress whatever had gotten

the FA facility, as though she was running

that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories

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

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

out of the walls walking amidst the

standing on

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

constantly spreading, faster than

to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes

like looming shadows, dancing

DNA is mutating

is breaking

It's

group of surviving healers read out

saw

showing a power surge. The

the walls is

assembling into

yelled

subject's body is too weak to contain

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