No Quarter
Wedge, Marcus, Mikoto, and Zok were well over twenty floors deep in Whisperwind Cove. They had defeated every enemy they had ever faced, with nary a scratch on any of them. Except for Marcus, who apparently had a gigantic bulls-eye painted on his bare chest that only monsters could see. At least 90% of the healing spells Mikoto had had to cast had been on Marcus's dumb ass. The only reason they kept reviving him whenever he died was because he possessed the ridiculous ability to punch out basically anything they saw, provided he attacked first.
Mikoto was bringing Marcus back to life after a battle while Zok chewed Wedge out.
"Do you mind telling me how a fucking ninja could manage to be ambushed by TWO ninety-foot-tall elm gigases? If my calculations are correct that works out to roughly two hundred METRIC SHIT-TONS of elm gigas! Why didn't you hear them? And now Mikoto has to revive Marcus because he got hit. Why he ran up and hugged one of 'em I'll never know..." Zok trailed off.
"Maybe he thought it was his mother? I don't know. Besides which, if they were truly so obvious to see and hear, how come you didn't notice them, mister black wizard?" Wedge countered.
Zok had no answer for this.
After Marcus had been healed, and their situation explained to him as slowly and repeatedly as Mikoto's considerable patience could allow, they were on their way again. Their next encounter was four sahagin queens, which they dispatched rather quickly and without much incident. The next battle was fought against nine sahagin queens, (because sahagins are apparently regicidal maniacs who love sending their royalty to die, as opposed to the standard, French Revolution kind of regicidal maniac who simply gets busy with the guillotine). After four more battles in a row against nothing but sahagin queens, Zok started to lose his mind a little bit. Four more battles and Zok started shaking with uncontrollable rage.
Finally they were within sight of the staircase that led to the next area. They were two steps away when they were attacked. By ten more sahagin queens. Zok went over the edge.
"GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT SAHAGIN QUEENS! DDDDDIIIIIEEEEE!" he shrieked, casting a spell of firaga. A meteor came down out of nowhere, immolating the monsters, scorching the cave walls, and of course, killing Marcus in the process. Zok stood there, laughing maniacally to nobody in particular.
Mikoto did her regular post-battle reviving of Marcus while Wedge checked on Zok, whose insane laughter had quieted down into an intermittent insane giggle. "You okay, dude?" Wedge asked. Zok did not answer, or indeed even acknowledge Wedge's presence. "Well, good work back there anyway. I mean, aside from killing Marcus, of course. I don't think we'll be seeing any more sahagin queens for a while, at least. By the way, we're like three hundred feet below the surface; where the hell did you get a meteor?" Still no answer. "Oooo-kaaay. Nice chat." With that, Wedge left him to himself.
Mikoto healed Marcus up, and they went on to the next floor, with Zok trailing behind, muttering to himself. Three steps later, they were attacked. By eight sahagin queens. Zok's head exploded.
The End.