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...'

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

them. It was as if she had stayed alive just

punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!'

ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now that I did, I couldn't endure

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

into a

the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We

body on 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? It's probably gate

my head, biting

to yourself, Ezra... please... stop...

and spoke in a

until her body started to

my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block

to bear. It was

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

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I

could, Asher's hand

Three words exploded in my mind

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

my ears ringing

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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 like black glass exploding with a

and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see

she could to suppress whatever had

didn't see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA

Asher didn't want me to see, but

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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all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the

witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking

standing

history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames that burnt everyone to

fire was constantly spreading, faster

in the fire to stop Ezra

shadows, dancing with the flames that

is mutating

is breaking

wait! It's rearranging,

out the data loudly from their

time, I saw

is showing a power surge. The

within the walls is showing a rapid increase in

energy is assembling

yelled above the

is too weak

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