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...'

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

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

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

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

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

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

soft voice, as though the name itself would revive her. 'Stay with me,

his back. At that moment, her weight

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

my head, biting down my

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

took a deep breath and

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

last. I shut my eyes, desperate to

to bear. It was his, and it was

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

Ezra..." I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though I could somehow touch

hand gripped mine, pulling me

he..." I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my

the past from the present. All I knew

pulled me into his embrace. I clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from the deafening impact

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

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

to suppress whatever had gotten out of

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

I didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me

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

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ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground

of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at

prove that you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to enter the flames

constantly spreading,

to stop Ezra were

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the flames that

subject's DNA is mutating

DNA is breaking

It's

healers read out the data loudly from their

time, I saw carnal fear in my mother's

showing a power surge. The

is showing a rapid increase in negative

assembling

researchers yelled above the

body is too

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