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...'

one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have

of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive

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

it was no use. His shrieks reverberated in my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared down the

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

Ezra's world imploded into a void of

voice, as though the name itself would revive

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

I got the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken.

head, biting down

stop... just stop now..." I choked on

and spoke in a shaking

days... until her body started to decompose

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

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

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

the clouds of

could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

Three words exploded in my mind with every

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

his overcoat, my ears ringing from

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memories 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 the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass exploding

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

could to suppress whatever had gotten out

home to the FA facility, as though

me to see, but

in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide

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facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground

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

standing on the ruined

like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged

spreading, faster

in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with

is mutating at an

is breaking

wait! It's rearranging,

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

first time, I saw carnal fear in my

body is showing a power surge. The

ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in

energy is assembling

yelled above

subject's body is too weak to contain the

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