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...'

as if Ezra was a beautiful

dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say

punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and

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

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

no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a

the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with

gently carried her lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly heavy

voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't

shook my head, biting down

Ezra... please... stop... just

a deep breath and spoke in a

until her body started

I shut

It was

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,

called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the

my ears ringing from

***

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

private office. I

could to suppress whatever had gotten out of her

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

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

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

***

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

walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters

Raven, who were standing

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

was constantly spreading,

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the

is mutating

is

It's

of surviving healers read out

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

is showing a power surge. The source remains

is showing

is assembling into the

yelled above the

subject's body is too

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