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...'

for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful

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

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

it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that I

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

was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a

voice, as though the name itself would revive

back. At that moment, her weight seemed both

the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You

shook my head, biting

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

took a deep breath and

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

it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it only seemed

It was his,

walked and walked until 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 inside me, rising like a storm in my chest. Before I knew, I was

toward the clouds of

could, Asher's hand gripped mine,

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

past from the present. All I knew was

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

***

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

mother's private office. I didn't

see her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

home to the FA facility, as

anything that Asher didn't want me

was a comfort in all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to

***

The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like

Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything and everyone that came in

were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance

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 to

was constantly spreading, faster than the

troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in a

like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled

mutating at an alarming

is

wait! It's

of surviving healers read out the data loudly from

the first time, I saw carnal fear in my

a power surge. The source

within the walls is showing a

is assembling

researchers yelled

subject's body is too weak

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