Chapter 4: Violetriver's Curse

It was late at night in Parappa Town, and Sunny was just sitting in her room on her phone talking with a friend of hers. "Sorry to hear about your guitar strings all somehow breaking. Listen, Katy, I need to tell you something," Sunny claimed. She was talking to her blue kitten friend who was the lead of a rock band known as MilkCan. They were great friends as well, and they were always helping each other if they needed to.

"Yeah sure, what's up?" Katy responded while working on tuning a guitar while the phone was on speaker. "Dad's busy investigating these weird murders. I talked to Parappa on the phone and pretended to break up with him, just so we can get dad to stop bothering us," Sunny explained her plan. Truthfully, she had faked the break up with Parappa over the phone. Her friend just broke out into laughter once hearing this.

"Wow, good job. How'd you and Parappa come up with it?" Katy asked Sunny while the sound of a guitar string snapping could be heard, along with Katy's irritated grumbles. "I came up with it myself, i couldn't tell him right away since dad was in the next room. I tried to call Parappa right after he left, but he never answered," she claimed with her voice trailing off with worry. "You what?! Sunny, don't you know what that could do to your relationship?" Katy shouted in shock hearing that Sunny didn't let Parappa in on the plan before doing it. "Don't worry. He's been in a lot of bad situations, so he can handle it. I'll just go visit him tomorrow or call him and explain it to him," she said acting like everything will be fine.

"I hope so. If you can't get him, you'll be able to talk to him at Monday in school anyway," Katy responded while questioning Sunny's current situation before she hung up, having to get back to work on her guitar's broken strings.

Back at Violetriver, Parappa was just asleep in their room at the inn. Paula and Matt were sleeping alongside him since it was the only bed in their room. Paula however was woken up by a banging noise downstairs. Paula just looked over to her sleeping friends and got up, trying not to awaken them either. She just rubbed her eye confusedly and stood up, walking out of their room to go and see what the noise was since the banging noise didn't seem to have any sign of stopping soon.

Paula saw all of the locks on the door and saw it shaking. She moved the piece of wood out from in front of it and unlocked it, removing the chain latch too. She just thought that it was a person who was out and was desperate to get inside from the dark night. As she opened the door, she saw the person standing there, the dark covering its entire body. "Are you okay?" Paula asked, but suddenly she saw a light flickering and noticed the person's hands. They were long and oddly shaped, each finger looking like a ravenous claw that had tons of blood on it, along with ripped flesh stuck on them.

Paula's eyes widened as she saw the person begin to approach her with a snarling growl coming from its mouth, reaching at her with his claws retracted. She saw its face. It was a bald person with no eyes and its sharp and uneven jagged teeth looked bloody as well. It roared as it kept approaching her, and Paula shrieked in fear as she turned and tried to run away, but she tripped over her own two feet while the monster continued approaching.

Parappa was awoken by all of the noise downstairs. He quickly got up seeing Matt still asleep, strangely enough being a heavy sleeper. Parappa grabbed his skateboard and ran out of the room to see what the noise was. As he got into the hallway, he saw another door of the inn that was shaking violently, and a loud banging could be heard in it like something was trying to break out of the room. Parappa just continued downstairs and eventually saw Paula screaming and kicking at the monster, trying to escape it while it was grabbing her leg with one of its sharp claws digging into her leg.

Parappa gasped upon sight of this and went over, he pulled back slamming his skateboard right onto the side of the monster's head and crushing its skull. It fell over, letting go of Paula and falling to the ground. Parappa panted as he helped up Paula. She hugged him, beginning to cry out of fear after the traumatizing situation she just went through. He could see her bloody leg and sighed. "What is that… thing?!" she asked not letting go of Parappa. "It's some sort of monster…! So this is what happens at night here! The place is cursed," he claimed finally getting her to calm down. Remembering what the receptionist said and now believing it fully.

They heard more roaring and snarling and could see the flickering lights outside. It revealed more vague figures under them, and roughly three more were coming. Parappa slammed the door shut and put the chain latch back on it, but the door quickly flung open, the chain latch barely holding it back as the monster let out a horrific screech while it was bashing on the door trying to break it in. Paula stood there too shocked to react. "Come on!" Parappa shouted deciding to go back upstairs to their room, but they heard a loud crashing noise and it wasn't long before they saw another monster that looked just like the receptionist that was dragging itself down the steps.

"W-we're going to die…" Paula said too scared to think properly and was about to break down. Parappa just kept looking around. Every window was barricaded, and running outside was much more than a suicidal move. A monster was just coming down the steps slowly until he saw a door behind the receptionist's desk. "In there! Hurry," he said, taking her by the hand and running straight to the door. They opened it and went inside in a rush shortly. After they got inside it, the door was busted open and multiple monsters began wandering the entrance of the inn.

Parappa and Paula found themselves stuck in a closet with their only weapon being Parappa's skateboard. Paula just sniffled while just trying to stay calm. "It's alright, I don't think they saw us come in here," he tried to reassure her everything will be alright, but he was questioning it himself. "W-what about Matt?" Paula asked worriedly. "Don't worry. I closed the door behind me. I don't think they'll go banging on it after the racket we made down here," Parappa whispered. They were trying to keep quiet since it seemed like noise drew even more of the monsters inside.

End of Chapter 4