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...'

last time as if

wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive

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

chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known,

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

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

itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make

carried her lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her

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

my head, biting

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

breath and spoke

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

each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out

bear. It was his, and it

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 could somehow touch

Asher's hand gripped mine,

Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

that moment, I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew

me into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening

***

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

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

everything she could to suppress

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

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

I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some integral

***

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

petrified as she witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames

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

bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the

fire was constantly spreading, faster than

fire to stop Ezra

looming shadows,

DNA is mutating at an

is breaking

wait! It's

read out

saw carnal fear in my

body is showing a power surge. The source

whole ground within the walls is showing a rapid

energy is assembling into

yelled

too weak to contain the

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