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...'

one last time as if

dimmed in them. It

concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM!

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

forgive you. Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing his forehead against the

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

as though the name itself would revive her.

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

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

my head,

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

a deep breath and spoke

kept carrying her dead body for days... until her

felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it

It

dead. An ominous panic bubbled inside

the clouds of memories, as

Asher's hand gripped

my mind

the present.

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

***

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

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

she could to

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

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

***

FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were

overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds

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

was constantly spreading, faster than

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with

is mutating at

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging,

of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their

saw carnal fear in my mother's

subject body is showing a

the walls is showing a rapid increase

assembling

researchers yelled above the

subject's body is too weak to

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