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 Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in the lost dream; she

dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to

guttural scream ripped from his chest as he punched the gate with brutal, wild force. His fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting

my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain

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

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

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

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

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

head, biting

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

took a deep breath and spoke

for days... until her

my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

to bear. It was his, and it

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 cross time and space and walk into

reaching out toward the clouds of memories,

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

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

past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and

his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from

***

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

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

to suppress whatever

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

me to see, but those memories remain in my

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

***

the time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were

the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance from

Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that burnt everyone to dust

spreading,

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes

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

mutating at an alarming

is breaking

wait! It's

surviving healers read out the data loudly

I saw carnal fear in my

a power surge. The source remains

ground within the walls is showing

energy is assembling into the

researchers yelled above the

is too weak

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