Chapter 5: The Next Day
Early in the next morning, Matt began to wake up. He yawned while looking around, but he didn't see the others in the room. He got up from the bed, opening the door to the main hall of the inn. It was unlocked which confused him. Matt's eyes widened when he opened the door to see one of the other room doors broken to pieces, and there was a trail of blood on the ground. Matt hesitantly looked into the room. It was completely messed up. The furniture was torn and thrown around like ragdolls. The room had been wrecked and it had a lot of blood stained on it.
"Paula! Parappa!" Matt called worried for them. He slightly panicked at the sight of everything, but when he got to the entrance of the inn, he saw a dead body of a monster with a messed up head from where Parappa had bashed its skull in with his skateboard. Matt was horrified from seeing the damage done to the inn. "Parappa! Paula! You guys here?!" he shouted worriedly, walking around the body before hearing a slow creaking noise. He immediately turned around, seeing by the reception desk where the closet door was open.
Matt saw Parappa and Paula emerge from the closet, having hidden there for the rest of the night. The monsters had vanished aside from the one Parappa took care of. "You guys! Thank goodness you're alright!" he exclaimed in glee. He squeezed Paula and Parappa into a hug, both of them still traumatized from last night. Matt eventually broke the hug.
"What happened here, guys? I was worried if something happened to you," Matt questioned confusedly. "I-I heard a noise last night, and I went to open the door. T-that thing on the floor attacked me, but Parappa saved me," Paula started before seeing her practical savior step in. "And before we knew it, there were loads of 'em, so we just hid in the closet," Parappa finished explaining, knowing that Paula probably didn't want to relive the horrific nightmare they just went through.
After a while of explanation over the night, Matt couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Alright, that's it! We're going to go see Mayor Billy," Matt declared. Parappa nodded in agreement. "Come on, guys. Let's go find him," Parappa said. He started walking out of the inn with Paula and Matt following. They could see the town look like what it was before when they first got here. The daytime was calm, peaceful and warm, and everyone was happy, but when nightfall came by, it was like it changed on a dime.
Parappa and his two friends soon found Billy, who was holding a clipboard and writing down certain names on a sheet of paper. "Hey, Billy," Parappa called to him and grabbed his attention. "Oh, you are all safe? That's great to know," he greeted them. "What is up with this town?! You nearly got us killed!" Paula yelled at the mayor, but he made a gesture to calm down. "I warned you to get to the inn. I'm sorry, but five people already died last night. As said before, this town is cursed," he responded, but the trio angrily glared at him.
"But guess what. You didn't tell us what it was! Look at Paula's leg. She got hurt by one of those monsters I killed," Parappa told him. Billy could see some blood slowly stream from Paula's left leg from where the monster's claws grabbed her. "Yeah, what happened that caused this town to get cursed?" Matt continued their questions. Billy let out a sigh before starting. "I'll explain. Some kid fifty years ago wanted to make it always warm and sunny here like summer. He made a deal with some kind of witch, and now we have to try and survive nightly," the mayor Billy explained everything, but Parappa just groaned.
"That's it. Let's get home, guys," Parappa said while he began to leave with Paula and Matt, but the mayor stopped them. "You killed one?" he asked. The trio stopped on their tracks and Parappa nodded. "Yeah, I did. Why?" he responded confusedly. "Good lord… no one has ever been able to do that! Please, you must stay and help us! You could be the saviors this town needs!" the mayor pleaded, but Parappa just looked at Paula and Matt who were still furious from the incident. Instead they all just continued to leave town.
Parappa pulled out his skateboard while Matt got his bike from where he left it the other night, letting Paula climb onto the back of it like before. They just took off down the road. They left Violetriver and were heading right back for Parappa Town, the mayor's pleas for help just ringing through their heads the whole time.
End of Chapter 5