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...'

a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was

the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had

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

it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a

Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me

a

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

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

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

head, biting down my

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

a deep breath and spoke

for days... until her body started to decompose and

last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it

mine to bear. It was his, and it

peering at Ellery's dead body with eyes more dead. An ominous panic bubbled inside me, rising like a storm in my

toward the clouds of memories, as

could, Asher's hand gripped

words exploded in my mind

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was that I had lost

I clenched his overcoat, my

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

I didn't see my mother frantically looking around at the data on several

she could to suppress

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

didn't see 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 hide me from the painful memories or to

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FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were

as she witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst

standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance from

Go, prove that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.'

was constantly spreading, faster

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

doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the

is mutating at

DNA is

wait! It's

out the data

time, I saw carnal fear

showing a power

walls is showing a rapid increase

energy is assembling into

yelled above the

too weak to contain

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