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...'

soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful

froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably gate

my head, biting down my

please... stop... just stop now..."

a deep breath and

kept carrying her dead body for days... until her body started to decompose and rot on his

be my last. I shut

bear. It was his, and

more with Ellery's dead body on his back. 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

the clouds of

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

Three words exploded in my mind

process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I had lost

pulled me into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears

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memories played on, but I didn't look. I didn't hear the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the

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

to

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

me to see, but those memories remain in my subconscious

embrace was a comfort in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some

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were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had

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

towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the

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

was constantly spreading, faster than

fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in

shadows,

mutating

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging,

surviving healers read out the data loudly from their

I saw carnal fear in

body is showing a power surge. The source remains

whole ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

is assembling into

researchers yelled above the

body is too weak to contain the

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