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...'

time as

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

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.

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

show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon

imploded into a void of ringing silence. Forcing himself to

itself would revive her. 'Stay with me, Ellery.

lifeless body on his back. At that moment,

wrong gate,' he said, his voice distant, broken. 'You heard them, didn't you, El? It's probably gate number

head, biting down my

yourself, Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I

deep breath and spoke

her

my last. I shut my eyes, desperate to block

pain wasn't mine to bear. It

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

toward the clouds of memories, as though

I could, Asher's hand gripped

words exploded in my

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

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

***

empty memories that followed. I didn't see

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

she could to suppress whatever had

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

then, I didn't see anything that Asher didn't want me to see,

if they were to hide

***

my mother reached the FA facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal,

moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters

standing

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

spreading, faster

to stop Ezra

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

is mutating at

is breaking

It's

healers read out the

time, I saw carnal

showing a power surge. The source

the walls is showing a rapid increase in negative

energy is assembling into

yelled above

body is too weak

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