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Abandoned

#30
Chapter 11


  Year 7 was our lucky year and that day in late spring was our human families lucky day.  It had been just another rainy spring day until the sun began to break through the clouds and there appeared the most beautiful rainbow any of us had ever seen.  It spanned the river not far north of the stockpile and new workplace shed.  It wasn't long before a magic portal appeared not far from the rainbow.  This portal was more colorful than the one we came through.  It was 4 adults with 1 child and 1 little leprechaun that emerged from the portal. 

  Now genuine leprechauns are fairies but unlike our tiny fairies here in the glen, leprechauns are usually solitary creatures so these companions dressed in fairy frocks might be family of the leprechaun and a mix of breeds. We assumed they were family of the fairy folk already living here as well.  Like elves and fairies only purebred leprechauns know magic, some say leprechauns are actually little old elves, not fairies at all. 

  The leprechauns moved into 2 treehouses and a nice house that had a golden glow to it.  We all know how much leprechauns like gold.  I don't know who the little leprechaun was living with.  There was a couple with a 2 year old that moved into the tallest treehouse and their 14 year old son moved into the shorter one.  A 34 year old male moved into the nice house.  Indeed it looked very nice when the trees began to change color that autumn.  Their treehouses changed color too, they were seasonal treehouses not evergreen like the leafy or pine ones we elves were living in.  The golden color of the seasonal treehouses remained all winter long. 

Abandoned

#31
Chapter 12


  By spring of year 8, the leprechauns had a fall fairy garden planted, there was plenty of fairy dust in storage that they helped themselves to.  The garden had a few dead trees to collect branches from for firewood.  There was corn, pumpkins, Brussels sprouts, carrots, potatoes, and sunflowers that provided edible sun seeds.  It was a very nice looking garden. 

  We were rather surprised at first to see a rabbit hutch next to the nice house.  I have no idea where they got the rabbits from or why.  I learned later from Yaritanaya that the little leprechaun was going to give her a lucky rabbit's foot to protect against the fairy's trickery.  Now leprechauns are known to like a little fun but their mischief is more of a random practical joke now and then, not spiteful or revengeful like the little fairies.  The little leprechaun seems to have taken a liking to our human, maybe it was just friendly helpfulness towards someone who was being picked on.  We hoped there would not be trouble.

  Later in the year the little leprechaun planted a shamrock patch near the human's house.  Townfolk stopped to look for a lucky 4-leaf clover every time they passed by, it sure made them happy.   The little leprechaun planted a few plants outside Yaitanaya's front door too, just for luck.

Abandoned

#32
Chapter 13


  By spring of year 8 our 2 outdoor classrooms were full, we build a schoolhouse near the cemetery.  The humans thought it would be nice to have a small chapel by the cemetery as well.  Since they had a rougher time here than the rest of us, we agreed.  It had a cross on the steeple but there was no church bell to keep the fairies away.  The leprechaun's lucky clovers and rabbit's foot seemed to be helping.  A rowan tree planted by the house or a talisman made from its wood would also have helped but we had no rowan tree.  We had no horseshoe to hang on the door either but the leprechaun's lucky charms seemed to have done the trick.  Life inside the human's nice house returned to normal, only occasionally did a garden tool outside get misplaced. 

  The little fairies were busy adding more fairy lights to the walkways by the school and chapel and also by the new town hall that was completed by late autumn that year.  It was so nice to have a complete set of records kept all together inside one building.  We recorded the fact that Shamrock Glen had 62 citizens now, 36 adults, 14 students, and 12 young children who were all happy and healthy.  We did not record the little fairies or Lucky the leprechaun as we now called him.

Abandoned

#33
Chapter 14


  The fairies were busy in early spring of year 9 clearing land near the cemetery.  They planted another garden and a fairy dust plant.  It was a very pretty plum patch with 2 plum trees.  The fairy dust soon had the plants growing and producing.  All the fairy gardens were doing well.  There were 2 spring gardens, 1 in the center of town and 1 in the hobbit's mushroom grove.  The spring gardens  had pear trees, vegetables, mushrooms, and wild oats.  There was the summer garden with a fairy dust plot in the evergreen pine forest, it had an apple tree and summer vegetables like beans, peppers, and potatoes.  The fall fairy garden by the leprechaun's seasonal tree houses provided firewood, and included pumpkins and sun seeds from the beautiful sunny sunflowers.

  The newly planted fairy plum patch had plums, wild honey, herbs, and flax for the fairy frock maker to use.   The fairy gardens and new plum patch not only provided us all with a lot of food but they added so much natural beauty to Shamrock Glen.

Abandoned

#34
Chapter 15 


  Over the years the fairy gardens provided us with a lot of food and a lot of variety but the rest of us did our share of providing too, without the help of fairy dust.  The hobbit's farmyard gave us apples, mushrooms, pork, and leather.  The human's farmyard gave us oats, potatoes, carrots, and wool and wool coats.  There was leather and venison from our elven hunter hideouts and more leather and rabbit meat from the leprechaun's rabbit hutch.  The hedgerow in our elven leafy green forest gave us apples, berries, and chestnuts.  The 2 beautiful fishing ponds in the forest areas would provide us with even more fish since we only recently added a second fisherman to each. 

We were sure lucky that the fairies guided us here to this glen in Shamrock Woods.

Abandoned

#35
Chapter 16


  But wait, what's  going on over by the new fairy plum patch?  Someone dropped a plum.  What were they doing, trying to grow another plum tree?  But no, they brought 4 pieces of wood and 12 units of fairy dust.  The plum is getting bigger, and bigger.  Oh my gosh, they must have used too much fairy dust, the plum is huge.  But wait, there's more.  They used the wood to make a door and a window, yes, a door and a window.  They made a sugar plum shop.  With plums and wild honey from the new plum patch they began making sugar plums.  Can you believe that, weary traveler, sugar plums.  Yes, they must be sugar plum fairies and sugar plum fairies do like sweet things.


Abandoned

#36
Chapter 17 


  Yes, fairies like sweet things as much as leprechaun's like a good mug of ale.  By early spring of year 11, Lucky the leprechaun was brewing apple ale at a workplace brewer barrel.  And not only that but he place a pot at the end of the rainbow, yup that's right, filled with gold, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  I can't tell you how much that gold was worth, we had no trading post, but let me tell you, that gold was priceless to our townfolk.  Lucky set up a table by the ale barrel and would hide a piece of gold under one of the three nut shells he had.  After their day of work, folks would stop at the shamrock patch to find a lucky 4-leaf clover then would stop for a mug of ale and take a chance at guessing which shell the gold was under.  If they guessed right, Lucky gave them the piece of gold.  Many folks now had a lucky gold coin along with a bit of fun.

   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfkaf70SYM

Abandoned

#37
Mod note:  Fairy garden cottages in 3 textures have been added to Fairy Garden mod.


Chapter 18


  We all felt very lucky indeed that the fairies led us here to this beautiful glen and that the leprechauns joined us.  We had more than enough of everything we needed.

  At the beginning of year 12 we decided we need a few more homes.  There were several young people living at home that were now of marriageable age.  We were pleased when asked that they said they wanted nice small cottages because they only planned to have 1 child each.  These  couples would be combinations of elves, hobbits, and fairies.  We hoped there would not be another changling incident.  Two of the 6 needed homes were built by autumn, one near the river and one near the school.  Two 15-year-old males moved in, one became a fisherman at the new mini pier and the other took over as school teacher.

  They had barely gotten settled when there was an outbreak of dysentery which started slowly with one case and then spread to 4 others before we built a mini hospital not far from the mini town hall.  When the hospital was finished the builders carved out another of the big mushrooms thinking the doctor would want to live near the hospital.  By the end of the year all 5 patients were cured and both young men had taken brides.

Abandoned

#38
Chapter 19


  There would be more houses built and more couples starting families.  Shamrock Glen had certainly grown since we came through the magic portal 13 years ago.  The hobbits settled in the mushroom grove with their pigs and planted a spring garden.  We elves settled into leafy evergreen tree houses and hunted, gathered, and fished in the forest pond.  Our human couple settled in the center clearing with their sheep and farmyard crops.  That area grew with half-human fairies who arrived shortly after we did.  They planted a spring garden and later a plum patch and made sugar plum treats.  Elven fairy folk settled in the north part of the glen in evergreen pine tree houses.  They fished, hunted, and grew a summer fairy garden.  Last to arrive was Lucky the leprechaun and his family.  They settled in a nice house and seasonal tree houses.  They planted a beautiful fall fairy garden and raised rabbits for meat and lucky rabbit's feet.  There was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  The seasonal tree houses changed color in late autumn and the snow began to fall.

  Twenty-six of us came through that portal.  In winter of year 13 Shamrock Glen had a population of 75, 44 adults, 17 students, and 14 young children.

Abandoned

#39
Chapter 20


  And then it was spring again in Shamrock Glen.  The flowering trees began to bloom and the gardens began to grow.  And as they did every year on the day of the spring equinox, the little fairies and will o' the wisps celebrated in the fairy ring,  and at the wayshrine, and at the sacred stone.  The first day of spring was a happy time in Shamrock Glen to be sure.

  Happy first day of spring, weary traveler, may your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow and good luck follow you where ever you go.


The End

kid1293

Thanks @Abandoned
A very colorful and happy story :)

I hope spring will come to you too.

I come with three small mods you used and thought they would be appropriate here.


Abandoned

Thanks @kid1293 , a very pretty and fun mod to use  :)  It is a beautiful first day of spring here, I wish the same for you.

I will add link with small descriptions of the 3 mods to Kid Lost & Found later.


Link to Kid Fairy Garden download can be found here:  http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=3945.0


taniu

@Abandoned ;D ;D ;D Thank you for the beautiful musical insert - the tear in the eye is spinning - they remind me of the good old times, thanks for the great stories about fairies. I hope you will write a wonderful story and the dear master @ Kid will add wonderful buildings and surroundings? Greeting and bows

Abandoned

 :) :) :) Thank you @taniu.  Some of those old songs are some of the best.   :)  Kid and I are working on a couple of other things but the new story starting today features angainor88's new mods.  I think you will like it.  :)