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...'

for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in the lost dream;

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

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

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

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

was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a

name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me,

At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy

broken. 'You heard them, didn't

head, biting down my

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

took a deep breath and

her

it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it only seemed

bear. It was his, and

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

reaching out toward the clouds

hand gripped mine, pulling me

hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present.

me into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact

***

memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass

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

she could to suppress whatever

as she drove from her home to the

me to see, but those memories remain in

if they were to hide me from the painful memories or

***

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

of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed

towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing

my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that

was constantly spreading, faster than the

in the fire to stop Ezra

around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing

DNA is mutating at an alarming

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging,

out the data loudly

saw

subject body is showing a power surge.

is showing

is assembling into the

yelled

too weak

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