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...'

faltered into a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and

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

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!

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 had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it. Blood smeared down the walls, leaving dark trails as Ezra

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

soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay

that moment,

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

my head, biting down

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

took a deep breath and

for days... until her

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

It was

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 me, rising like a storm in my chest. Before I knew, I was on my feet,

Ezra..." I called, reaching out toward the clouds of

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

in my mind with every

I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present.

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

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empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like black glass exploding with

the danger alarms that blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically

everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

panic as she drove from her home to the FA

I didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to see,

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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time my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a

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

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

healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring

spreading,

military troops diving in the fire to stop

shadows,

DNA is mutating at an

DNA is

It's rearranging,

of surviving healers read out the data loudly

saw carnal

subject body is showing a

within the walls is showing a rapid increase in

energy is assembling

researchers yelled above

body is too weak

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