As punishment for trying to kill Krampus, Cathy was stuck in her cell for three days. She lied naked on the floor, keeping the thin blanket wrapped tightly around her cold body. She didn't move and she didn't speak. Twice a day, a plate of food was brought to her. Two slices of meat, an old piece of bread, and a candy cane. She ate very little and let the candy canes remain untouched. As she watched the sunset come and go with each passing day, Cathy spent her time thinking about how foolish she had been. As far as she was concerned, she had been raped by more than just an evil shadow of Saint Nicholas. Krampus was a demon. And unless you were a god, you can never win in a battle against a demon. Thinking she would never see her family again, and seeing how there was no sense in trying to escape, Cathy accepted her fate.

By the fourth morning, a giggling noise woke Cathy up. She opened her eyes and sat up slowly and looked over at the barred window. Lumpy, Clumpy, and Dumpy were all standing on the outside. Lumpy was pulling onto the bars and taunting her in a singsong tone of voice. Clumpy slapped his knee in response and laughed himself silly at his friend's mockery of the human girl. Cathy said nothing, but looked away from them and lied her head back down on the floor, pulling the blanket up to cover her shoulder.

Lumpy and Clumpy continued to laugh at her, but Dumpy was the only one who felt sorry for Cathy. He knew what she did was wrong, but Cathy didn't need to be mocked and teased at for it. Although he loved his master and would do anything to please him, Dumpy looked at Cathy like a mother, and his friends were not helping him make it any better.

Without even thinking, Dumpy put on an angry face and slapped Lumpy and Clumpy in their faces. "Cut it out!" Dumpy told them.

Clumpy slapped Dumpy back and asked him, "What did you do that for?"

"You started it", Dumpy argued.

"No, I didn't!" Clumpy told him.

Lumpy glared at Dumpy and turned him around and kicked him in the buttocks with a grunt. Dumpy screamed as he fell into the cell and landed onto the dirt-covered floor. He was not hurt, but he was still mad. Hearing his two friends giggle, Dumpy looked up and saw Lumpy and Clumpy giving each other a high five.

Dumpy stood up on his feet and started ranting and raving in gibberish at his friends, jumping up and down in furious anger. It was more cute than threatening.

Lumpy turned around and wiggled his buttocks, while Clumpy made a funny face at his little gingerbread friend.

Dumpy looked over his shoulder and ran over to a plate that had a half-eaten piece of meat on it. He picked up the candy cane lying next to it and then picked up the piece of meat, tossing it into the air. Using the candy cane as a baseball bat, Dumpy swung it and knocked the meat piece towards Lumpy, who fell off and landed into the snow outside.

"Hey!" Clumpy protested. He pointed to Dumpy and said, "I'm telling the boss on you!"

"Go ahead!" Dumpy dared him, dropping the candy cane for a piece of bread. He tried throwing it at Clumpy, but the wall was too high for him. Instead, the bread bounced off the wall and landed itself onto Cathy's head. She didn't react to it.

Dumpy shrieked and ran over to her. Clumpy gave himself a wicked laugh and then left.

"Cathy! Cathy!" Dumpy exclaimed. He tugged onto the corner of the blanket and asked her, "Cathy, are you okay?"

"No, I'm not", Cathy whispered.

The little gingerbread man climbed on top of her and stood on the back of her left shoulder. He touched her hair in a comforting way and asked her innocently, "Hurt?"

Cathy closed her eyes and put a hand to her tear-stained face and sobbed quietly, "Just go away."

Dumpy looked at her with concern. He wanted to help Cathy very much, but he didn't know what to do.

Just at that moment, the latch to the door was heard being unlocked. Dumpy gasped and jumped off of Cathy, who sat up at once and looked to see who it was. The door opened slowly and, much to her horror, it was Krampus. Lumpy was standing on his right shoulder, cackling.

Cathy quickly scooted herself into a corner far away from him, breathing heavily. The horrifying ordeal of Krampus' assault of her body replayed in her mind.

Dumpy looked at Cathy and then looked at his master, putting on a brave face. He waddled over to Krampus, who looked down at him and growled.

Suddenly, Dumpy lost his courage and dropped down to his knees in front of Krampus, begging, "Please! Please have mercy!" Dumpy stood back up and pointed to Cathy. "She hurt! She scared!" Dumpy got back down on his knees again and begged, "Please help Cathy!" Dumpy put his hands to his face and cried desperately.

"No, no!" Lumpy protested, jumping up and down on Krampus' shoulder. "Don't listen to him! Don't listen! Don't listen! Don't-"

With a simple turn of his head, and with one look from his mask, Krampus had managed to shut up the obnoxious leader of the gingerbread trio. Lumpy laughed nervously to himself and jumped off of his master's shoulder.

Cathy remained where she was, keeping herself covered with the blanket for her own protection. She did not need him to see her naked again.

Krampus lowered his horned head and slowly entered into the prisoner's cell, his chains jingling with each step he took.

Cathy looked away from him and shouted, "No!" Her voice sounded hoarse.

Krampus knelt down somewhat and extended his hand out to Cathy, who waited a minute to see what he would do. Nothing happened. Cathy forced herself to look at him and stared into his eyes. Krampus growled softly and blinked twice. His magenta eyes seemed less brighter this time, though they still held a sense of trust. This was enough to convince Cathy to allow one of her hands to slip out from under the blanket. She took hold of his hand.

Slowly, but carefully, Krampus helped Cathy to stand up on her feet. A sharp pain between her legs caused her to gasp and fall against his massive chest, accidentally rattling his chains. Cathy cried against him and allowed the blanket to slide off her shoulders, covering her breasts with her arms. She felt that if she were to take but one step, the pain would only grow worse. Krampus understood right away what was the problem and gently stroked a claw-like hand behind her back, his long fingernails caressing her bruised hip. Cathy tensed herself up when she felt him do this. With his other hand, Krampus placed it under her knees and picked her up into his arms, holding her bridal style.

Cathy did not have the strength nor the energy to fight him, as she felt herself being carried out of her cell and out into the hallway. She did not know where he was taking her, but still thought it couldn't have been worse than it already was. Cathy closed her eyes and rested her head against his chest, almost on the verge of sleep if not unconsciousness.

Krampus walked slowly down to the other end of the hallway and made a left turn to a private room. He came across two large doors with a candy cane striped archway for a frame. The doors opened up by themselves, to which Krampus stepped inside with Cathy. The doors closed behind him.