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...'

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

wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It

own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting

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 as Ezra crumpled on

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

into a void of

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

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

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

head, biting down

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

breath and spoke in a

her dead body for days... until her body

my vision, and each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate

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

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

before I could, Asher's hand gripped

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

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

my ears ringing

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silence - in the dark, empty memories that

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 the data on

could to suppress whatever had gotten out of her

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

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

in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from

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

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

ran towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe

Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to

was constantly spreading,

troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were

like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled the

is mutating at

DNA is

It's rearranging,

of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

the first time, I saw carnal fear in my

showing a power

is showing

is assembling into the

researchers yelled

body is too

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