The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5

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>Sam: Really, that was just shameful.
>Get your head in the game for once and actualy concentrate on what you're doing.
>A bad melee fighter you may be but you're *still* a very good archer, and still a natural at magik (which means pooking). Stop fighting on the enemy's terms.
>In a fight all's fair to win
The lesson is simple: if you can't, then cheat.

If the Adoyret thought I was going to fight him on his terms, he was sadly mistaken!  I was a master at elfly magicks!  It was high time I started using my special abilities to my own advantage!  Any tactic (short of the Unseelie) was fair if it led to victory!  I began pooking rapidly all around him.

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"Seriously?" Sam sighed.

"How do you like that, eh, Sam?" I taunted as I flickered around at a blinding pace.  "Not so easy to hit an opponent if you don't know where he is or where he's going to - OOF."

Somehow I wound up on the ground again, with a dull pain in my ribs.

>Adler: You can have all the strength, speed, and battle fury in the world, but it's utterly useless if you don't know how to use it properly. Get the ever loving snot beat out of you.
>Adler: RAGE!!!!  Get one hit K.O.ed

"Having all the strength, speed and magick in the world, not enough is," Sam muttered down at me.  "Discipline you lack.  Focus you lack.  Confidence you lack."

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"EAT THIS, SAM!" I snarled, as I rolled over, quickly produced my bow, and snapped off a shot straight at his head.  "I learned archery from the BEST."

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"But the best you are not," Sam declared as he simultaneously dodged and caught the arrow.  "Sure of yourself enough to hit me, you are not."

>Adler: Is this one of those things where the magic was inside me all along?

"Let me guess," I sassed.  "You're going to waste my time with a bunch of Gnostermonger nonsense about ham, and then at the end of it you'll tell me that the power was within me all along."

"Within you the power is," Sam admitted.  "At the beginning, this I tell you.  But true confidence in your abilities to gain, only one way there is:  Good you must get."

With a flick of his wrist he flung the arrow back toward me, and it embedded - quivering - into the dirt next to my head.

>Adler: "Okay, maybe I could stand to have a few lessons..."
>... You still need lessons badly tho...

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"Okay," I squeaked nervously.  "I guess I could stand to have a few lessons."

>Ixies: Valuables change hands. Typantron is a very wealthy ixie indeed.

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"ARRGH SIRE," my Ixies groaned.  "How couldst thou cave in so quickly?  Where was thy Irenaeid battle fury?  Thy fearsome Blood Rage?  Verily we have been gypped!"

"PAY UP, SISTERS," Typantronn gloated.  "Like Angela says, All Thy Aphids Are Belong To Me!  Ha ha ha ha I'm rich!  RICH!!"