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...'

for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful

them. It was as if she

fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from

shut my ears, but it was no use. 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 pain I had

I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon

a void of

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

her lifeless body on his back. At that moment, her

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

my head,

Ezra... please... stop... just stop now..." I choked on my

deep breath and spoke in a shaking

dead body for days... until her body

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

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

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,

the clouds of memories, as though

hand

in my mind with every heartbeat

that moment, I wasn't rational enough to reason anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew was the truth of the moment and it was

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

***

memories that followed. I didn't see the way the darkness

private office. I didn't see my

try everything she could to suppress whatever had gotten

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

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

but I no longer knew if they were to hide me from the painful memories or to hide

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

the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of

and Raven, who were standing on the ruined grounds at some

bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged

spreading,

the fire to stop Ezra were reduced to

like looming shadows, dancing with the

DNA is mutating at

is

It's rearranging,

of surviving healers read out the

I saw

a power surge.

walls is showing

assembling into the

researchers yelled above the

body is too weak

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