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...'

smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a

It was as

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! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure,

ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and

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

help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of

in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay

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

he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't

my head, biting down my

please... stop... just stop now..."

and spoke in

for days... until her body started to decompose and rot on

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

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

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

I called, reaching out toward the clouds of

Asher's hand

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

that moment, I 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 was that I had lost

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

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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 the darkness in those memories

screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several

could to suppress whatever had gotten out

she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though

that Asher didn't want me

no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some integral memories

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

moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds

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

constantly spreading, faster than the

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

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with

is mutating at

is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

out the data loudly from

saw carnal

showing a power surge. The source remains

ground within the walls is

is assembling into

researchers yelled above

subject's body is too weak to contain the

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