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

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

each punch shattering his own bones, blood

my ribcage. It was a pain I

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

coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void

called out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still

her lifeless body on his back. At that moment,

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

head, biting down my

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

and

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

be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

bear. It was his, and

Ezra walked and walked until he could walk no more with 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

toward the clouds of memories, as though

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my

enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I

clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my

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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 with a sharp, blinding

blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the

didn't see her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out

from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from

anything that Asher didn't want me to see,

all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they

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

moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining

were standing on the ruined grounds at

can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames

was constantly spreading, faster

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

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

subject's DNA is mutating

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging, it's

read out the data loudly

the first time, I saw carnal fear in

a power surge. The source

the walls is showing a

energy is assembling

yelled above

body is too weak to contain

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