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...'

words 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 and in the lost

time as the light dimmed in them. It

scream ripped 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!'

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

forgive you... don't you fucking abandon

was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a

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

that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy and unbearably

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

shook my head, biting

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

a deep breath and spoke

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

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

bear. It was his, and it

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

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

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

exploded in my mind with

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

I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening

***

that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I

I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several computer screens at the

to suppress whatever had gotten out

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

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

longer knew if they were to hide

***

were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal,

out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone

were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe

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

spreading, faster than

stop Ezra

shadows,

DNA is mutating at

DNA is

It's rearranging,

read out

I saw

a power surge.

whole ground within the walls is showing a

assembling into

researchers yelled

too weak to

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