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...'

him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was

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

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 gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting the

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, leaving dark trails as Ezra crumpled on

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

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

out in a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery. We can still make it. We'll make

her lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her weight seemed

wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard

my head, biting

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

a deep breath and

until her body started to decompose and rot on

last. I

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

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, scrambling forward as though I could cross time and space and walk

Ezra..." I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as

Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

exploded in my

reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment

clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact of my

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

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

everything she could to suppress whatever had

from her home to the FA facility,

want me to see,

all the turmoil inside me, but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide some

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

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

Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe

just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.'

was constantly spreading, faster than

diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced

and doom swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames

mutating

DNA is breaking

It's rearranging,

out the

time, I saw carnal fear in

showing a power surge. The

the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

energy is assembling into the

yelled above

subject's body is too

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