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

time as the light dimmed in them. It was

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,

creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a

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

coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he limped to

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

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

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

shook my head, biting

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

deep breath and spoke in a shaking

body for days... until her

breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the

It was his, and it was

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 feet, scrambling forward as though I could cross time and space and walk into

toward the clouds

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat

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

my ears

***

happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way

danger alarms that 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

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

anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories remain in my subconscious

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

***

The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and

witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the

Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the ruined

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

spreading, faster

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra

looming shadows, dancing with the flames that

mutating at

DNA is

wait! It's

group of surviving healers read out the data

time, I saw carnal

subject body is showing a power surge. The

is showing a rapid increase in

energy is assembling into the

researchers yelled above

too weak to contain

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