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...'

as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she

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

own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM!

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

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

no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void

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

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

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

my head, biting down my

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

breath and spoke in a shaking

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

my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

wasn't mine to bear. It was his,

body with eyes more dead. An ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising like a storm in my chest. Before I knew, I

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

exploded in my mind with every heartbeat

the present. All I knew was the truth of the

his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears

***

the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass exploding

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

she could to suppress whatever

she drove from 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 subconscious

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

***

FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black

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

Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds

healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that burnt

fire was constantly spreading, faster than the

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

shadows, dancing with the flames that

is mutating at

is breaking

wait! It's

healers read out the data

I saw carnal fear

is showing a power surge.

whole ground within the walls is showing

energy is assembling into the

researchers yelled above the

subject's body is too weak to contain

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