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...'

in for one last time as if Ezra was

It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last words

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

in my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain

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

was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of

He called out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can

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

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

my head, biting down

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

a deep breath and

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

I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it only seemed

pain wasn't mine to bear. It was his, and it was

at Ezra's eyes peering at Ellery's dead body with eyes more dead. An ominous panic bubbled

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

he..." I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat -

reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment

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

***

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

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

see her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten

didn't see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was

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

the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories

***

all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like

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

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds

create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven

constantly spreading, faster than the

troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with

mutating

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly

saw carnal fear in

showing a power surge. The

within the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

energy is assembling into

yelled above the

subject's body is too weak to contain the

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