Niall The Gnome's Dark Past

In a place far forgotten and a time long ago there was the place of the gnomes, surrounded by luscious forests, fields and flower gardens but there was a dark side to this place. It was somewhere the dark gardener gnomes lived, these gnomes would go around destroying the flower patches, digging up the grass and helping the weeds to grow. Everything they did was to stop the growth of wildlife but there was one of them who did not like what he did. He was different from the rest of them yet he still followed their lead and destroyed the plants.

One day he was supposed to destroy a patch of roses but what he saw there was not what he had anticipated. A green gardener gnome was watering the roses; she wore a sapphire blue dress with a jade green vine design climbing on it, she had magnificent locks of earthy brown hair and her hat, her gnome hat was the most beautiful scarlet red he had ever seen. He tried to destroy the roses like he was supposed to but he just couldn't, something was holding him back and he knew it was her. When she looked up she smiled and gestured him closer, so he drew near, that's when she spoke to him "Come help water these." Shocked he didn't know what to do so just froze in place like a statue. She stood up and offered him her spare watering can and showed him what to do so he followed her lead and watered the roses with her. The joy he gained from doing this was unlike anything he had felt before.

Into the darkness of the twilight sky they went around watering all the flowers they could find until they both went their separate ways home. When he returned all the other dark gardener gnomes looked at him and questioned him on where he had been all day, he didn't want to tell them the truth so he just replied with a sharp "Out!" and walked through the house, upstairs and into his bed.

The next day he woke up and strolled out of the house straight to the roses patch where he met her yesterday but she wasn't there so he went to another patch and there she was watering more flowers, tulips this time. He wandered straight up to her with no hesitation and asked "What is your name?" she looked at him in his eyes and giggled like a little forest nymph, this made him blush turning his cheeks rose red. "My name is Leela. What's yours?" He looked at her with eyes of misery and whispered "I don't have one."  Leela smiled and replied
"Why?"

"Us dark gardener gnomes don't have names we have numbers instead and I'm 32." He just looked and spoke with so much gloomy misery yet Leela still kept smiling and spoke something that made all that misery disappear, "Well from now on you can be called Niall. Niall the gnome." And just like that the newly named Niall's frown grew into the biggest smile he could ever make, if it was any bigger his face would crack. Niall and Leela spent the rest of the day watering all the different flowers from tulips to roses to carnations, every flower until the end of the day when they went their separate ways again. As Niall got home he was questioned yet again but this time the elders got involved but Niall stayed firm and gave the same reply "Out!" then went to bed.


 The next day he went out looking for Leela; first in the rose bushes where he left his watering can, then the tulips where she gave him his name and finally the carnations but she was nowhere in sight when out of the blue dark gardener 40 called for him "Follow me 32!" So he followed him until they met up with two other gnomes. The leader of three stepped forward and spoke, "32 we've been following you and we know about the girl, she's with the others and if you don't change back to a dark gardener we will smash her to pieces." This angered Niall, he had the watering can in hand raising it up an a rapid pace and then smashed the gnome to his left and then the one to his right so only the leader was left. Niall asked the leader "Where is she?" but the leader ignored him and stepped back but Niall stopped him from moving any further and used the watering can to chip away at the gnome leader. First his hat, then his arm, then his face until eventually he gave in and told Niall where she was, then he smashed him to pieces. Niall ran as fast as he could to where she was but when he got there Leela was on the floor cracking. He kneeled down to her and she stretched her hand out to him and whispered in his ear "I will always be with you whenever you smile so keep watering the flowers and when you smile remember that I will always be there watching over you because I lov....." Then she cracked and broke apart before she could finish what she was saying. Niall held her pieces and cried for the one he lost.

When he had finished his grieving he stood up with the watering can and swore vengeance on the ones who did this to Leela. His anger had been raised to a level so high his sky blue gnome hat started to turn an eerie hell fire red. Niall now started his dark gardener gnome hunt, searching through the gardens he found some growing weeds and some destroying the wildlife, he smashed, destroyed and annihilated every dark gardener he could find. By the time he was finished no dark gardeners survived except the elders who stayed in the house. He then went home for the very last time to confront the elders for what they have done.

Ramming the door open the five elders stood at the other side of the house staring at Niall with disgust and then to the watering can stained by the dust of all the fallen gnomes lain out in Niall's path of vengeance. The elders gasped in surprise in what he had done but Niall just walked straight toward the elders ready to finish it all. The elder 4 spoke up with aggression "What have you done to our brethren?"

Niall just softly and quietly replied "Your going to be joining them soon." Then he leaped forwards and came crashing through one elder with the watering can and smashing through the back of another one. He then ended up in between two elders who hit him but didn't do it hard enough so caused no damage. When they went to hit him again he dodged out of the way and let them hit each other with enough force to cause their own demise. Now only one quivering elder remained. Niall then brought the watering can above the elders head and the elder begged "Please 32 don't smash me up. I'm sorry." But Niall just looked at the elder straight into his frightened eyes and spoke "My name is Niall!" Then he brought the watering can down so hard the last elder shattered into many many pieces. This brought Niall's vengeance to an end so he left the dark house never to return again.

Niall created a new life for for himself with his newly built house surrounded in green vines, rose bushes and tulip patches. He would water the plants everyday just so he could smile and remember Leela being by his side. Niall did this until the end of the gnome age that's why if you see him around he will always have a smile on his face, a watering can in his hand and a purple hat which could never change back to how it once was.

The End