Ender Eyes

Duncan groaned. He felt a searing pain in his right shoulder, but his arm felt surprisingly numb. Squinting his eyes open he glanced over at it. Suddenly he felt a lot more awake. What was left of his once white lab coat was stained scarlet red, and where his arm should have been, there was little more than a mangled mess of blood and bones. Suppressing a scream, his eyes darted around to survey his surroundings, and racked his brain to remember what happened. The memories trickled back to him, a redheaded girl, an ender born... a space man and a dwarf? But the most prominent memory was of a huge dragoness. As the scientist's eyes adjusted to the darkness, he realized he was on top of a very tall obsidian pillar. Dragging himself to the edge, he peeked over. Below him was a bleak, empty island surrounded by darkness and inhabited by strange shadowy men. Duncan recognized these creatures... but struggled to remember their name. All he knew was that, in his trapped, one armed state he was in a pretty bad situation.