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...'

faltered into 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

light dimmed in them. It was as if she had

from his chest as he punched the gate with 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, raw frustration, his voice splitting the air with

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 walls, leaving dark trails as Ezra crumpled on

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

realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he limped

a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive

gently carried her lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy

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

head, biting down

this to yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just

breath and spoke

her dead body for days... until her body started to

blurred my vision, and each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but

mine to bear. It was

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

Ezra..." I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

he..." I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with

reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the

my ears ringing from the

***

the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass exploding with

my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around

her try everything she could to suppress

didn't see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something or...

anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those

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

***

FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had

petrified as she witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone that came in Ezra's

were standing on

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

spreading, faster than

fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in a

Ezra like looming shadows,

DNA is mutating at

DNA is breaking

wait! It's

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their

saw

body is showing a power surge. The

within the walls is

assembling into the

yelled above

body is too weak to

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