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...'

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

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

his own bones, blood splattering from

trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that I did,

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

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

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

on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy and

said, his voice distant, broken. 'You

head, biting down my

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

deep breath and spoke in a shaking

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

I shut my eyes, desperate to block

bear. It

days. Ezra walked and walked until he could walk no more with Ellery's dead 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

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

hand gripped mine, pulling

in my mind with every

wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew

his overcoat, my ears

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in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see

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

try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten

panic as she drove from her home to the FA

see anything that Asher didn't want me

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

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

petrified as she witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst

were standing on the ruined grounds at some

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

was constantly spreading, faster than the

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows,

is mutating at an alarming

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging,

healers read out

the first time, I saw carnal fear in my

is showing a power surge. The

ground within the walls is showing a

energy is assembling

yelled

too

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