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

It was

guttural scream ripped from his chest as he punched the 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 the

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.

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

a void of ringing silence.

voice, as though the name itself would

back. At that moment, her weight seemed both impossibly

said, his voice distant, broken.

my head,

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

and

kept carrying her dead body for days... until her body started to decompose and rot

it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate

mine to bear. It was his, and it

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 feet,

the clouds of memories, as though I could

could, Asher's hand gripped

my mind with

to reason 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

into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my

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empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness

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

try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

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

didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories remain

no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some integral memories from

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

out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed

were standing on the ruined grounds at some

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 dust

was constantly spreading, faster than the

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra

looming shadows, dancing with

is mutating at an alarming

is

wait! It's

read out the

first time, I saw carnal fear in my mother's

a

is showing a rapid increase in

energy is assembling

yelled

is too

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