Strange but cute little one-shot about a Scottish girl and the Leprechaun. It's crazy from beginning to end.


An Old Tale That Was Once Told

St. Patrick's Day, me favourite holiday in the whole world. Why exactly? The name's Victoria Smith and I came from Scotland. Me hair is red and I have misty grey eyes. I moved to America with me family at age 5. Although, for a 5-year-old, I didn't have many friends because I kept to meself a lot. When I was 16 me parents got into a car crash and died while I was at school. It was very tragic and took a long time for me to move on.

Now, just turning 18, I walk home from school to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I came prepared for school this morning in a dark green dress that went down below me knees. The top of it was sleeveless so I wore a black long sleeved shirt under it. I also wore black and green striped knee high socks, and a pair of black dress shoes.

I've always kept to meself, so people didn't really find it weird for me to be so distant from everyone else. I am very shy too and have suicidal thoughts at times. I haven't killed meself yet because I know me parents wouldn't want me to do that. But, I do have a weird belief: I believe in leprechauns. Yes, I know, very weird but I believe in them greatly. I'm not sure if it's because of my family heritage, but this belief is very strong.

As I'm walking down the sidewalk to me house, I see a bush russle. I stopped walking and stared at the bush for a moment. It started moving again and I was wondering if an animal or small child was in hiding in there. Then, I sneezed two times as the bush shakes.

"Hey," I said in a low tone, "Are you all right?" I reached down to touch the bush as it shuffles again, making me sneeze again for some reason.

Suddenly, a small man pops out and leaps onto me, causing me to fall backwards. He was about 3 feet tall, had bumpy or wrinkly looking skin, sharp nails, long red hair like mine, wearing dark green clothing, and had out this wooden cane. I was very shocked to see such a man. No, this was a creature!

"Hello, lassy," he said in a very strong Irish accent, "Would you happen to be Victoria Smith?" I stared at him with wide eyes, wondering how he could qossibly know me name.

"Y-y-you're a-a leprechaun," I studdered before fainting.

When I awoke, I was in what appeared to be a cave with a lot of furniture that you'd see in a house. I sat up and realized I was laying on a bed. I looked over to me right and saw the leprechaun sitting next to me. I jumped a little and stared at him for awhile.

"Didn't you're parents ever tell you it wasn't polite to stare?" he asked. He sounded like nothing out of the ordinary was wrong. Almost as if popping out of nowhere and kidnapping me was completely normal to him.

"Ummm, who are you and why have you brought me to this place?"

"I thought you already knew. I'm a leprechaun! And I've brought you here to be me bride."

"You're bride? Why?"

"Well, you see, many years ago, I decided to marry a young lass. She was the black smith's daughter and he was very specific about who he wanted his daughter to marry. So, I talked to her in secret and asked her to be me bride. Before she could give an answer, her father found us and tried to kill me. If you're familiar with Irish folklore, you'd know that I can't be killed very easily. Before I killed him, I cursed his family that I'd marry the generation 2,000 years later and make her my bride."

"And I'm the 2,000th generation?"

"Correct!" I sat there and thought deeply for several moments. A leprechaun from thousands of years ago had tried to marry my great-something grandmother, failed, cursed me family, and know has come to America to claim me as his bride once again. Me thoughts towards this?

I smiled and giggled a little. The leprechaun stared with confusion at this.

"I've heard this one story from me parents when I was little. A leprechaun was wandering the Earth looking for his bride. If he found his unfortunate bride, the family would be cursed even if the bride died. If his bride refused to marry him, she'd have to suffer so much until she said yes. Me parents warned me to keep away from leprechauns for that reason."

"Interesting story. I could try that."

"You could but you wouldn't have much luck."

"And why is that, lass?"

"Well, my parents are, eh, dead."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that."

"It's fine. I'm over the whole ordeal."

"So, you live alone?"

"Yes." It was slightly quiet for a moment until I decided to break the silence.

"So, when's the wedding?"

"What? I thought you stayed away from leprechauns."

"Well, after me parents died and I thought of the story again, I didn't really mind a leprechaun finding me. Although, you gave me a huge shock when I saw you for the very first time."

"And you're okay with the marriage?"

"Yes. I don't see the harm." He laughed loudly before putting his hand on mine and looking up at me.

"Such a strange girl. But you're very pretty so that's okay." I blushed slightly at this. I leaned down to him and gave him a kiss. I don't know if it shocked him or took him by surprise, but he was still for awhile. Then he got into the kiss with me and we stayed like this for a long time. When we broke apart we smiled at each other.

"So," I said, "When's the wedding again?"