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...'

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

wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if

with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on

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 known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared

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

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

though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still

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

got the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably gate

head,

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

a deep breath and spoke

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

felt like it might be my last. I shut

to bear. It was his, and it

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 feet, scrambling forward

out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could somehow touch

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every

the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I had

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

***

memories that followed. I didn't

and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see

see her try everything she could to suppress whatever had

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

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

inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide

***

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

of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames

Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some

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

fire was constantly spreading, faster

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes

looming shadows, dancing with

subject's DNA is mutating at an

is breaking

wait! It's rearranging,

surviving healers read out the data

I saw carnal fear

body is showing a power

within the walls is showing a

energy is assembling into

researchers yelled

too weak to contain

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