Lucy sat in the tiny room, holding her blood stained scarf. She hugged it close, knowing that it was the last thing her mother gave to her before her passing.
A question kept creeping into her head, why did her parents abandon him in the first place? It must've been something he did. But what?
She heard unfamiliar footsteps walking past her room. She got up and sprinted to the door.
"Help! Let me out of here!" She screamed, banging on the door.
"Shut your moutb or I'll duct tape it shut!" A deep, growling voice called back.
Lucy backed away from the door, slightly startled. She went to sit back down until she heard the same, growling voice speak again.
"Sorry about that. Strider told me to tell his prisoners to shut it otherwise I'm going to be left for dead." The growl mumbled.
Lucy paused for a brief second before walking back towards the door.
"Are you serious? Strider would actually kill his own henchmen?" She asked
"Oh yeah, he's got a heart of stone. If it means that he can get his own way, he doesn't care who he hurts or kills. Kinda sad really, he used to be a lovelt bloke. But people change." He replied "has he hurt you in any way?"
"Yeah, he's done quite a lot of damage, he's cut my cheek, my wrists and he broke my only chance to escape, my phone." Lucy mutterd back
"I'm sorry about all of that. What have you done that's so bad?"
"Nothing, literally nothing! He says he's doing it to get revenge on my parents! My parents have been dead for 16 years! I don't know why he wants to get revenge on them, almost 2 decades later!" Lucy replied, frantically.
The growling guy sat speechless for a while taking it all in.
"Was Strider actually serious?" He thought "what does he think he's going to gain by hurting a dead couple's daughter? He really is the sickest villain around!"
"Don't worry, I'll get you out of there!" He said.
Lucy smiled as she heard the key turn in the lock, she picked up her scarf, which was still stained with blood and wrapped it around her neck.
The door opened and Lucy came face to face with a rather tall, bulky guy. He had long brown hair and a long brown beard.
Lucy thought that he looked like Hagtid from Harry Potter or Stoick from How To Train Your Dragon, but she couldn't decide which.
Without warning he grabbed her aching arm and dragged her down the corridor. Lucy struggled to keep up with his pace and almost tripped over in her heels.
"Where... are we...going?" She gasped out, still speeding down the hallway.
"In here!" The growling guy said, opening a small door and tossing Lucy into a room.
He followed in after her and locked the door.
"Ok first of all we have to do our introductions before anything else. I'll start: My name is Stan, my age is no one's business, my family is a cat called terror and I live here. Now you!"
"I'm Lucy, age 34, my family is my husband Gru, my three beautiful girl's Margo, Edith and Agnes, my brother in law Dru, our minions, our dog Kyle, our goat Lucky and Dr Nefario and I live at Gru's house." She said, fluently.
"Wow! That's quite a big family you have there! No wonder that you want to go home! Now how do I contact them?"
Gru was riding in his dad's "Villain wheels" with Dru and Jake.
He suddenly felt his phone vibrate in his coat pocket. He fumbled around in the pocket until he finally pulled it out.
UNKNOWN NUMBER came onto the screen and Gru was banking that he knew who it was.
"Listen Strider, if you've done anything to her..." Gru began but was shortly cut off.
"It's not Strider." Stan's voice sounded over the phone "I'm Stan and I've just saved your wife Lucy here. Do you want to talk to her?"
Stan passed his phone to Lucy, who greatly took it.
"Hi honey!" Lucy's cheery voice sounded in Gru's ear.
"Hello sweetie! Are yoo ok?" He asked, his voice cracking slightly, mostly beacuse he was so relieved to hear her.
"Yeah I'm ok, better than ok actually! Stan unlocked the door on my cell and we are trying to find a way out of here. Where are you?"
"Me, Dru and Jake where just on our way to rescue yoo, do yoo vant us to meet yoo outside de lair?" Asked Gru
"Yes, please come and pick me up" Lucy whispered "bye honey bear, I love you"
"I love you too baby." Gru replied, hanging up.
Gru breathed a sigh of relif and leaned back in his seat, Lucy was safe and that was all that matterd to him.
"So who was dat?" Asked Dru, trying to keep his eyes on the road.
"It was Lucy, she's fine and trying to escape. Now all we need to do is go in, pick her up and take her home again." Gru replied
Jake, was asleep in the middle seat, he hadn't stirred for the last hour and they where getting close to the lair. But neither Gru or Dru had the heart to wake him.
Meanwhile...
Lucy sat on the floor with Stan next to her, Lucy couldn't help but stare at the wrists and groan.
"Gosh those wounds are really bad, when you get home you have to get those seen to." He said
",If she gets home..." A familiar voice echoed in the doorway.
Lucy and Stan looked up to see Strider, weilding a weapon with about ten othet henchmen standing around him.
"How did you get in here?!" Stan demanded, standing in front of Lucy, to protect her.
"Well it's a room in my own lair, I'm very likely to have a key aren't I?" Strider smirked
Without warning the henchmen walked forward and tried to make grabs at Lucy. Lucy dodged them and moved further back to avoid them.
Stan threw a series of punches at his fellow henchmen, knocking them square in the jaw making them collapse in front of him.
"Good job, Stan but not good enough, because you see I have back up!" Strider chuckled. He stepped to the side to reveal, about sixty more henchmen.
Lucy gasped and glared in confusion.
"But how? You only had a few henchmen before!" She cried
Strider didn't reply, instead he just pointed at Lucy and Stan and then walked out of the door.
The henchmen attacked, grabbing Stan and throwing him against the wall. The grabbed Lucy her arms and wrestled her to the floor. Lucy began to scream, not because of the pain and discomfort that she was facing; it was because of the pain and discomfort that Stan was facing.
"Stop it! Please don't hurt him!" She whimperd pathetically.
Just at that moment, to everyone's surprise, Gru, Dru and Jake burst in.
"Let her go!" Gru shouted to the henchmen.
The henchmen just laughed at him and pulled Lucy on her feet.
"Gru!" Lucy yelled in relif before her mouth was covered by the hand of a henchmen.
"Get your filthy hand away from her mouth!" Gru demanded, getting ready to completely incase this guy's head in ice from the freeze ray.
"What are you going to do about it?" The same creeky, oily voice came from behind Gru.
"Ahhhhh! It's a ghoast!" Dru screamed, hugging Jake, who shoved him away.
Strider merely chuckled and brushed past the trio in the door way, over to Lucy.
He placed his hand on her chin and smirked at her terrified expression.
"Mmmph! Nmmm!" Lucy cried, trying to shake his hand off.
"Leave her out of this! This is between yoo ( I remembered Gru's accent yay!) and me Strider!" Gru bellowed
"Fine then, it's between you and me." Strider agreed, backing away from Lucy.
Gru was quite taken a back that Strider had completely backed away just like that. No he wouldn't just do that, he'll definitely do something.
"But before we begin our little fight" Strider continued "you'll have to do something for me first, Mr Gru."
"Vhat is it?" Gru groaned
Strider took a couple of steps closer to Lucy again.
"I need you to hand over that freeze ray. Now!"
Gru glared and replied a simple: "No!"
Strider glared at Gru and moved closer towards Lucy and grabbed her arms. He dragged her away from the henchman holding her, and used his right hand to restrian her and his left to pull out a blade. The same blade that he had cut Lucy's cheek on.
"Maybe you need a bit of persuasion!" He said, holding the blade against Lucy's neck.
Lucy whimpered in terror and her eyes widened. She tried to shake free her wrists, but strider held tightly.
"Ok, ok I'll give it to you! Just don't hurt her!" Gru begged, holding out his freeze ray.
To be continued...