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...'

as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have

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

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

it felt like 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 down

don't you fucking

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

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

back. At that moment,

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

head, biting

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

took a deep breath and

her

might be my last. I shut my eyes,

wasn't mine to bear. It was his, and it was

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

called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories,

before I could, Asher's hand

he..." I hyperventilated. Three words exploded in my mind with every heartbeat -

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

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

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

the danger alarms that blared and howled and screeched in my mother's private office. I didn't see my mother frantically

see her try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten out

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

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

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

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facility, it was all in ruins. The walls were shattered; the ground scorched black like charcoal, and everything had scattered like a

of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of

standing on the ruined grounds

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 to dust within

constantly spreading,

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to ashes in

like looming shadows, dancing with

is mutating at

is

wait! It's rearranging, it's

out the data loudly

first time, I saw carnal fear in

is showing a power surge.

is showing a

is assembling into the

yelled above the

too weak to

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