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...'

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

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

each punch shattering his own

a creature 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

and I'll forgive you. Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't

he realized that no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of

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

lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her

voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably

my head, biting down my

yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop

and spoke in

kept carrying her dead body for days... until her body started

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

bear. It

said, staring at Ezra's eyes peering at Ellery's dead body with eyes more dead. An

reaching out toward the clouds of memories, as though

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

Three words exploded in my

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

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

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

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

she could to suppress whatever

as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something or...

anything that Asher didn't want me to see,

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

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ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black

out of the walls walking amidst

who were standing on the ruined

healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos

spreading, faster than

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

swirled around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing

mutating at

DNA is breaking

It's

of surviving healers read out

time, I saw

subject body is showing a power surge. The

ground within the walls is showing a rapid increase in

is assembling into the

researchers yelled

subject's body is too weak to contain

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