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

the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last words

the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood

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

up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking

world imploded into a void of ringing

out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would

on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly

distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's

head, biting

please... stop... just stop

a deep breath and

her body

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

It was his, and it

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

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

could, Asher's hand gripped

my mind with every heartbeat - Ezra

from the present. All I knew

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

***

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

and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several

try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten

the FA facility,

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

me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me

***

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

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

standing on the

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

constantly spreading, faster than the

fire to stop Ezra were

shadows, dancing with the flames

subject's DNA is mutating

is

wait! It's

of surviving healers read out the

time, I saw

a

whole ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase

energy is assembling into the

researchers yelled above

subject's body is too weak to contain

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