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...'

words faltered into a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra

froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last words to

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

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 the

forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing his forehead against the

imploded into a

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

back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly

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

my head, biting

this to yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop

and spoke

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

shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I

to bear. It was his, and

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 as though I could cross time and space and walk into the

I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could somehow touch

hand gripped mine, pulling me

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind

enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and

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

***

memories that followed. I didn't see

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

her try everything she could to

didn't see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was

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

embrace was a comfort in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they

***

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

walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed

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

that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter

fire was constantly spreading, faster

diving in the fire to stop Ezra

swirled around Ezra like looming shadows,

is mutating at

is breaking

It's

read out the data loudly from their

time, I saw carnal fear in my

showing a power

is showing

is assembling into

yelled above the

body is too weak

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