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...'

words 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

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

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

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

don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed, pressing

coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing

as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it.

back. At that moment,

voice distant, broken. 'You heard them,

shook my head, biting down my

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

and

carrying her dead body for days... until her body started

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

bear. It

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,

clouds of

could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra is

the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was

clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening

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events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed.

office. I didn't see my mother

could to suppress

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

Asher didn't want me to see, but those

knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some integral

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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 house of

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

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

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

spreading, faster than the

in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to

around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled

is mutating at an alarming

is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

out the

the first time, I saw

body is showing a power surge. The source remains

is showing a

energy is assembling into the

yelled above

subject's body is too weak to

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