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...'

last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she

eyes froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if

concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM!

my ears, but 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

show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking

realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing

the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery.

on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed

broken. 'You heard them, didn't

shook my head, biting

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

took a deep breath and spoke

body for days... until her body started to

be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate

mine to bear. It

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,

reaching out toward the clouds of memories,

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat

couldn't process the past from the present.

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

I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the

try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

the FA facility, as though

want me to see, but those memories remain in

was a comfort in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if

***

my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a house

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

Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing

can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring

fire was constantly spreading, faster than the

the fire to stop Ezra were

looming shadows, dancing with the

subject's DNA is mutating

DNA is

wait! It's

out the data loudly from their monitoring

the first time, I saw

is showing a power surge. The source remains

ground within the walls is

is assembling

researchers yelled above the

is too weak to contain

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