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

It was as if she had stayed alive just to

fists met the concrete with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from

shut my ears, but it 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 was a pain I had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure it.

I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon

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

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

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

said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably

my head, biting

yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..."

took a deep breath and spoke

dead body for days... until her body

my vision, and each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but

It was his,

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,

Ezra..." I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though

could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with

the past from the present. All I knew

my ears ringing from the deafening impact of

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

office. I didn't

she could to suppress whatever

the

me to see, but those memories remain in my

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

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ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black

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

standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance from

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

spreading, faster

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows,

DNA is mutating at an alarming

DNA is

It's rearranging,

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly

time, I saw carnal fear

is showing a power

whole ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

is assembling into

researchers yelled above

is too weak to contain

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