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...'

faltered into a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as

froze in the wheel of time as the light dimmed in them. It was as

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 air with a distressing

felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and

don't you fucking abandon me now...' he

no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to stand, he

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

his back. At that moment, her weight

broken. 'You

head, biting down my

please... stop... just stop now..." I choked on my

and spoke in a

for days... until her body started to decompose and rot on his

each shaky breath felt like it might be my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block out the suffocation, but it only seemed to

to bear. It was his,

days. Ezra walked and walked until he could walk no 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 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

called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as

before I could, Asher's hand

I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every

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

clenched his overcoat, my

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

hear the danger alarms that 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 the same

didn't see her try everything she could to

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

me to see, but those memories

but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful

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walls were shattered;

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

ran towards Alpha Deimos and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some safe distance from

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

spreading,

military troops diving in the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes

swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that boiled the

mutating at an alarming

is breaking

wait! It's rearranging, it's

read out the data loudly from their

the first time, I saw carnal

showing a

ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase

assembling into

yelled above the

body is too

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