Flashback ( PDFDrive )

Ruy laughed. “You’ll have to do better than that.”
“How about this?” Dex shouted, and Sophie pivoted to watch him
throw what looked like a handful of Hershey’s Kisses. But these were
no candy—the small silver blobs latched onto the force field and
unleashed some sort of sonic pulse that made the white energy ripple
and spark.
“Eh,” Ruy said, waving his arms to thicken their shield. “You
would’ve been better off bringing along your Shade.”
“Nah, he’d be no match for me,” Umber argued. “He lacks proper
training.”
Ruy shrugged. “He’s still the only one they have with any real
potential.”
“Then why do you keep coming after me?” Wylie asked, pressing
his hands together and forming a beam of light that was the same
deep blue as his eyes.
He slashed it like a sword, and Sophie’s heart swelled with hope as
it sliced through the force field like butter, making the white energy
blink away with a crackle of static.
But the second the shield disappeared, Ruy had another one in
place. “You realize I can do this all day, right?”
Wylie sliced the new dome with another blue beam. “So can I!”
Sophie wanted to believe him—but sweat was pouring down the
strained lines on his face. And the next gadget Dex hurled only kicked
up a little dust.
“I’m done with this!” Umber shouted, launching shadow spears at
both of them.
Lovise tackled Dex to save him from being hit, and they both
tumbled across the dunes, rolling out of sight as Wylie formed a red