This is the sequel to Soft Wind and Death Tales! Enjoy and please review!
Previously, on Soft wind and Death Tales: "Did you find Margo?" Gru asked hopeful.
"SHE'S DEAD GRU! SHE'S DEAD! LIFELESSLY LYING IN THE PARK IN THE GRASS, SHE IS GONE!
Edith folded the hover board and shoved it into Gru's chest.
"Here take it, I don't want it anymore"
Edith descended into the lab and got the jet boots. She left the house and Gru followed her, pleading for her not to leave.
"Edith, no! Please don't go, Agnes needs you!"
And with that, Edith engaged the boots and took off into the clouds….
Hard Wind and Family, Chapter 1: Prologue
The board hung in mid air and Gru sat at a stool, watching it.
It had been 10 years since Margo died, and Edith left, leaving him, Agnes and Nefario along with the minions…
Gru sincerely missed his daughters and he never forgave himself for what happened to Margo. All the while he sat and watched the hover board, reminiscing his times with Edith and Margo.
He'd do it every Saturday instead of sitting in the lab and working on inventions.
Amidst the other things he had to take care of, Agnes was fairly quiet. No more obsession with unicorns, nothing. Only school and home…
Gru was even quieter now; he had not a single heist planned since Edith left.
Everyday would be filled with depression and sadness, missing his girls and his former life as a happy guy.
Wishing he could take back the day Margo died, Gru lived his life lonely.
There was no more tom-boy or bookworm; there were no more obsessions with unicorns or pancakes in the mornings…
If Gru had even a day to relive his former life, he would take every chance he got.
He sighed and stood up from the stool, walking with his hands behind his back and upstairs.
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A slender female bustled her way through the ventilation shaft and to the room of the vault.
Careful with her steps, she proceeded through the cold ducks.
The vault was a 2 foot thick highly rated security system with a finger recognition scanner.
It would be a piece of cake for the villain. She snapped a device to security camera wires, telling it to loop old footage. Opening a ceiling tile, she swiftly fell through and landed on her feet, and without a noise. The pristine clean floors showed no signs that she was here.
She muttered to herself: "Patience, Stealth, and Imagination"
The facility had no idea…
The villain unhooked a gadget from her belt and snapped one onto one hinge, and another to the other hinge.
The hinges ruptured.
The villain activated spider-like robotic arms and lifted the door off of the vault.
Stacks and stacks of money filled the interior. The villain took out a small cube from her backpack and pointed the front of it to the money. After she pressed the button, all the money was shrunk and put into the cube. Mission accomplished.
After putting the vault door back onto the hinges and making it look like nothing happened, the villain retreated into the ceiling and out the back of the building.
30 Million dollars was compacted inside of the 2x2 inch cube, inside her backpack.
Before coming out of the back of the building she took off her spy suit and gear, then into her normal clothes.
It was almost like it never happened. Edith was relieved.
Still on the island, she called for her ship.
A large ship, similar to Gru's, flew to Edith.
She entered the hovering ship and left the island without notice. Edith had successfully robbed one of the world's most richest and dangerous men.
Mr. Perkins….
Feeling substantially triumphant, she flew back to her fortress in Port Jervis New York, a very small town, population: 9,367…
The reason Edith had built her small fortress in Port Jervis was because of how quiet it was. Half the stores were closed; there were dusty antique shops, people walking down the streets with baby strollers…It was just the right place for Edith to set up.
But one thing had bothered her, everyone gossiped about the sudden new girl in town. It was almost comparable to an old western movie where a sheriff or bad guy comes into town, and everyone knows them. Although it was fun to add to the gossip herself, saying things to people she knew would spread gossip and new rumors.
It wasn't very hard to lay low as a villain. Sometimes if Edith was bored she would go to New York or visit famous land marks.
In the past ten years, she had gathered enough skill to become a villain. Of course, she learned from the best, Gru.
After disappearing, she started in an entire new life. Edith went back to school and got her high school diploma, then moved when she had enough money to buy a house when she was 18. She was now 21 years old….
She flew into the sea and the ship transformed from a jet and into a sub instead. Descending into the water, she neared the small city. An opening in the rock had allowed her passage way. Edith drove into her hangar and set the ship down, docking with her secret facility.
A few years back when she took an advanced bio chemistry class in 11th grade, she learned how to engineer minions, the exact same way that Gru had. Clumsy, ecstatic, smart and swift. But instead of the minions being male, they were female but were still the small maniacs that did your every deed. And Edith found a way to make them talk correctly.
It was her accomplishment, her life that is, and she was proud. Of course, maybe Gru would be too.
If she even knew him anymore.
It was sad really, Edith hadn't contacted her adoptive father in years, but she doubt that he would even think about contacting her. She was in hiding and she intended to stay that way, although she knew one thing about him: He never gave up on anything.
Deep down, she missed him. She missed his warm hugs, pancakes in the mornings, being greeted warmly by him when she came home.
All those things she missed, and eventually they started to show.
With all the money stolen from Mr. Perkins, he and Vector would surely go into bankruptcy.
That's what her next plan was, take revenge on Vector for the death of Margo…