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...'

took him in for one last time as if Ezra was a beautiful dream she was grateful to have and

light dimmed in them. It was as if she had

with relentless fury, each punch shattering his own bones, blood splattering from his fingers and knuckles on the gate. 'MOM! MOM! AHHHH!' He roared in pure, raw frustration, his voice splitting the air with a

break out of my ribcage. It was a pain I had never known, and now

Just show up and I'll forgive you... don't you fucking abandon me now...' he sobbed,

imploded into a void of

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

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

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

my head, biting down

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

took a deep breath and

her body started to decompose and rot on his

like it might be my last. I

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

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

called, reaching out toward the clouds of memories,

I could, Asher's hand gripped mine, pulling

my mind with

anything. My mind couldn't process the past from the present. All I knew

clenched his overcoat, my ears ringing from

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on, but I didn't look. I didn't hear the events that happened in silence - in the dark, empty memories that followed. I

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

could to suppress

didn't see her panic as she drove from her home to the FA facility, as though she was running away from something

see anything that Asher didn't want me

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

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

witnessed the overpowering moment when Ezra walked out of the walls walking amidst the raining embers. Flames of disasters consumed everything

who were standing

you can create history just like my healers. Prove your worth. Go, bring Ezra home.' Deimos urged Raven to

was constantly spreading, faster than the

diving in the fire to stop Ezra

Ezra like looming shadows, dancing with the

is mutating at an

DNA is

wait! It's rearranging,

of surviving healers read out the data loudly

saw carnal fear in

subject body is showing a power surge. The source

ground within the walls is showing a rapid

energy is assembling into

researchers yelled above the

too weak to contain

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