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...'

a soft, serene smile. Her gaze took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have

dimmed in them. It was as if she had stayed alive just to say those last words to

his 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 from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM!

reverberated in my chest; a force so powerful it felt like a creature trying to break out of my ribcage. It was

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

no help was coming, Ezra's world imploded into a void of ringing

a soft voice, as though the name itself would revive

At that moment, her weight

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

my head, biting down

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

and spoke in a

body for days... until her body started to decompose and

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

mine to bear. It was

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 into the bloody grounds where

I called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories,

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling me

in my mind with every heartbeat -

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

his overcoat, my ears ringing from

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played on, but I didn't look. I didn't hear the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness in those memories shattered like black

and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically

didn't see her try everything she could to suppress whatever

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

didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to see, but those memories remain in my

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

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all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the

walls walking amidst

were standing on

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

fire was constantly spreading, faster than the

to stop Ezra were reduced

around Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with

is mutating

is breaking

It's rearranging,

group of surviving healers read out the data loudly from their monitoring

the first time, I saw carnal fear

is showing a power

within the walls is showing a rapid

energy is assembling into

researchers yelled above

body is too

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