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...'

words faltered 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 and in the lost

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

punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting the air with a

creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was

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

into a void

would

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

voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you,

shook my head,

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

took a deep breath and spoke in a shaking

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

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

pain wasn't mine to bear. It

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

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

could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

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

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

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

***

- in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass

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

her try everything she could to

home to the FA facility, as

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

embrace 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 to hide some integral memories from

***

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

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

ran towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on

your worth. Go, bring Ezra

fire was constantly spreading, faster

to stop Ezra were

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

is mutating at an

DNA is

wait! It's

healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

time, I saw carnal fear in my mother's

is showing a

within the walls is showing a rapid

is assembling into the

researchers yelled

body is too weak to

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