Man Steals Children of Hamelin

A mysterious man who calls himself Pied Piper used his music to kidnap all of the children in Hamelin last weekend because of a broken promise made by the Mayor.

It started off as a plain old agreement and ended up with catastrophic results. The Pied Piper, who seemed to have just come out of nowhere in a time of need, promised to get the rats out of Hamelin. The Mayor was completely skeptical of the man who had claimed to get rid of beetles and frogs that infested other towns around Germany. The Mayor naively promised the Pied Piper fifty thousand florins to solve the rat problem. After the Pied Piper saved the town, he was not rewarded.

The Pied Piper decided to seek revenge and took all of the children, the same way he did the rats, by playing his music. Those poor children followed him all the way up into the mountain caves. One lone boy survived and reported this news to the now helpless Mayor.

What the Pied Piper has done will not only effect the parents of Hamelin, but also the generations to come. It will take years to have more children around, singing songs, and playing games.