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...'

serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to

eyes 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

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 the air with a distressing

powerful it felt like a 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

and I'll forgive you. Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't you

help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand,

would

At that moment, her weight seemed

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

shook my head,

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

deep breath and spoke in

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

last. I shut my eyes, desperate

bear. It was his, and it was

he could walk no 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

reaching out toward the clouds of

Asher's hand gripped

exploded in my mind with every

past from the present. All I knew was the truth

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

***

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 way the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass exploding with a sharp,

that blared and howled 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

everything she could to suppress

home to the FA facility, as though she

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

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

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was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the

the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames

Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds

my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra

constantly spreading, faster than the

fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in

like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled the

mutating at an

is

It's

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly from

the first time, I saw carnal fear in my mother's

subject body is showing a power surge. The

is showing a

energy is assembling

yelled above

subject's body is too

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