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...'

serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and in the lost dream; she

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 splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM!

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 the walls,

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

a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he limped to

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

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

I got the wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El?

my head, biting down my

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

a deep breath and spoke in a shaking

kept 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 block out the suffocation, but

pain wasn't mine to bear. It was his,

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

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

before I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

words exploded in my mind with

I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of

his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening

***

I didn't look. 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

my mother's private office. I didn't see my

to suppress whatever

see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something

that Asher didn't want me to

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

***

in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had

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

Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the

that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter

fire was constantly spreading, faster than

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows,

is mutating at

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging,

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their

I saw carnal fear in

a power surge. The source

within the walls is showing a rapid

assembling

yelled

body is too weak to contain

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