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...'

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

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

his chest as he punched the gate with brutal, wild 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!

shrieks reverberated in my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It

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

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

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

his back. At that moment, her weight seemed

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

head, biting

please... stop...

breath and spoke

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

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

mine to bear. It

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 called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories,

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

Three words exploded in my mind with

past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I had lost

me into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my

***

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

danger alarms that blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several computer screens at the same

she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

as she drove from her home to the

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

no longer knew if they were to hide me from

***

the time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and

out of 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 from

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

constantly spreading, faster than

to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in a

like looming shadows, dancing with the flames

is mutating at

is

It's rearranging,

read out the data loudly from their monitoring

I saw

showing a power surge. The source remains

ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in

is assembling into the

yelled above

body is too weak to

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