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...'

took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she

in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say

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

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 known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared down the walls, leaving

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

he realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a

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

body on his back. At that moment,

broken. 'You heard them, didn't you,

my head, biting down my

yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I

took a deep breath and spoke in a shaking

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

last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but

wasn't mine to bear. It was

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

the clouds of memories,

could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I had

my ears ringing from the

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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

mother's private office. I didn't see

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

see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as

want me to see,

all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to

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

when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone that came in

standing on the ruined grounds at

that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos

spreading, faster than

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to

shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled

subject's DNA is mutating at

is breaking

It's rearranging,

out the data

saw carnal fear in my mother's

showing a power surge. The source remains

within the walls is showing a rapid

is assembling into the

researchers yelled above

subject's body is too weak

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