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

in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last

His fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own

my ears, but it 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 had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared down the walls, leaving dark trails

don't you fucking abandon me

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

though the name itself would

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

got the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard

head, biting down

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

took a deep breath and spoke in a shaking

body for days... until her body started to

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

pain wasn't mine to bear. It was his, and it

said, staring at Ezra's eyes peering at Ellery's dead body with eyes more dead. An

out toward the clouds

Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

in my mind with every

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

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

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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

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

her try everything she could to

to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something

me to see, but

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

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in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a house of

moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst

were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe

healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring

constantly spreading, faster than

diving in the fire to stop

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the

DNA is mutating at

is breaking

It's rearranging,

of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

first time, I saw carnal fear in

a power surge. The source

is

assembling

researchers yelled above

subject's body is too weak to contain the

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