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...'

soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was

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

the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers

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

up and I'll forgive you... don't you

into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand,

itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We

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

broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's

my head, biting down

Ezra... please... stop...

breath and spoke in a shaking

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

last. I shut my eyes,

mine to bear. It

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

I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could

hand gripped mine, pulling me

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra is

mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and

embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my

***

memories played on, but I didn't 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 those memories shattered like black glass exploding with a sharp,

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

see her try everything she could to suppress

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

that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories

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

***

it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the

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

standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance

just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos

was constantly spreading, faster

troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled the

is mutating at an

is

It's

surviving healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

the first time, I saw carnal

subject body is showing a power

walls is showing a

is assembling into the

researchers yelled above

is too

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