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

wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those

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

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, leaving dark

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

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

name itself would revive

lifeless body on his back. At that moment,

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

head, biting down

please... stop... just stop now..."

deep breath and spoke

dead body for days... until her body started to

my vision, and each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I

It

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, scrambling forward as though I could cross time

out toward the clouds of memories, as though I

Asher's hand gripped mine,

in my mind with every heartbeat -

the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was

his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my own

***

in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like

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

her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out of

her home to the FA facility, as though

me to see,

longer knew if they were

***

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

the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers.

Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds

worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged

fire was constantly spreading,

in the fire to stop

like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled

DNA is mutating at

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

surviving healers read out the data loudly

the first time, I saw carnal fear

subject body is showing a

ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in

is assembling

yelled above the

is too weak to contain the

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