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 and in the lost dream;

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

His fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering

of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure

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

world imploded into a void of ringing

though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with

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

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

head, biting down

please... stop... just

breath and spoke

her dead body for days... until her

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

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

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, I was on my feet, scrambling forward as though I could cross time

toward the clouds of memories, as though I could

Asher's hand gripped

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra is

wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it

his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening

***

look. I didn't hear the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories

private office. I didn't

to suppress whatever

her home to the FA facility, as though she was

Asher didn't want me to see, but

knew if they were to hide

***

it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered;

moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking

were standing on the ruined grounds

history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.'

fire was constantly spreading,

stop Ezra were reduced to

shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled

DNA is mutating at an

DNA is

It's

out the data loudly from their

saw carnal fear in my

showing a power surge.

the walls is showing

energy is assembling into

yelled

is too weak to contain

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