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 Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and

It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last words to

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! MOM! AHHHH!' He

my ribcage. It was a pain I had

and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing

coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself

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

At that moment,

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

my head,

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

breath and spoke in a shaking

her body started to decompose

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

pain wasn't mine to bear. It

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

toward the clouds of

hand gripped mine,

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

the present. All I

overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my own

***

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

office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several computer screens at the

everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out

to the FA facility, as though she was running

me to see,

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

***

were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a house of

walking amidst the raining

Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on

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

fire was constantly spreading, faster

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in a

shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled the

is mutating at

DNA is

wait! It's

healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

I saw carnal

is showing a

ground within the walls is

is assembling

yelled

too

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