The dragon let loose a horrific shriek as Marrrrr sunk his sword into its chest. It stumbled a few steps before falling to the ground with a loud 'thud' that shook the ground.

"Dude. You literally slayed a dragon," Bing-Bong said, eyes wide.

"Yeah, whatever. Help me get one of these out of his head," Marrrrr grunted.

"I refuse to help in protest of what we've done to this poor animal," Lavernica said, crossing her arms over her chest and standing her ground.

"Poor animal? It's a dragon. It tried to kill us," Bing-Bong argued back. He looked over to where Marrrrr and Zippity-Do were digging the dragon's eye out with their swords. Shrinking away in disgust, he said, "Yeah, you know… wish I could help… but I've just got this bow… can't do much with that…"

"You know what this is called, don't you?" Lavernica was still ranting like nobody else had spoken. "Poaching."

"We need the dragon eye to make the poison antidote," reminded Zippity-Do. "Ooh, let me cut the optic nerve."

"I just refuse to believe that murder of an innocent creature is the only way to do that."

"Okay, Lavernica," Marrrrr said. He was close to losing patience with both Lavernica and this damn dragon eye. "We'll just let Hector die while you find that cruelty-free antidote."

"Whatever. I'm just saying," she mumbled as the eye popped free.

"Finally!" Marrrrr picked the eye up, ready to start on the way back to the witches who were watching over Hector.

"Wait!" Bing-Bong shouted. "We forgot about Pierce."

Marrrrr looked over at Pierce, who had been knocked unconscious at the very beginning of the battle. He sighed, looking over at Zippity-Do. "Anything you can, oh mystical magical person of God?"

Zippity-Do looked over at Pierce's prone form, a look disgust forming on her face. "I guess I can do Laying on of Hands."

"Great. Do it so we can get out of here."

"You're not looking so good, either," Zippity-Do pointed out. "What are your hit points at?"

"You guys don't know what hit points are," reminded the ghostly, disembodied voice of the Dungeon Master.

"I mean… umm… do you feel like you need to be healed?" Zippity-Do corrected.

"I'm fine. I just need to get this back to Hector. Do Laying on of Hands on Pierce and LET'S GO."

"Laying on of hands," Bing-Bong said under his breath. "Ew."

-

Much later, a healed Hector walked through the forest next to Marrrrr. "Heard you single-handedly slew a dragon for me."

Marrrrr shrugged, trying to be nonchalant. "Hey, it's not my fault nobody could hit the thing.:"

Hector smiled knowingly.