"Oh, I'll show you, Chad," Tom said with a grin. He sat straddling the locker room bench with his gym bag in his lap. Chad saw enough as Tom sat to know Tom was trying to conceal his raging boner. The bag moved of its own accord like something was inside trying to get out.
Chad noticed the movement inside the bag, and Tom's massive grin and boner. So either Tom really thought he caught a nonexistent leprechaun (probably a rabbit or rat dyed green for St Patrick's Day) or Tom was trying to prank Chad. Chad decided to play along.
Chad planted his foot on the bench with his toe touching the gym bag. Then Chad leaned forward resting his elbow on his knee, and sliding his foot under the moving gym bag.
"So you caught yourself a leprechaun? Did you? Sure it's not a cat dyed green for the holiday? And I thought the leprechauns all lived in Ireland, so what's this one doing here? He came just to grant your wish?"
"Wishes!" Todd said with a big grin.
"Wishes? I thought leprechauns only gave one wish? It's genies that give three wishes," Chad said wiggling his toes to make whatever was in the gym bag jump.
"You really shouldn't mock leprechauns, Chad," Todd said grinning even more broadly, "leprechauns hate nonbelievers even more than they hate granting wishes."
"Oh, so what is your scary little green man from Mars going to do to me?" Chad challenged leaning in further. Chad's foot was now completely under Todd's frantically moving bag. Whatever was in the bag desperately wanted out.
Todd leaned down and whispered into his bag's zipper, "So Mr. Leprechaun, if I let you out you will give me a tenth of your crock of gold, two wishes, and- " he paused, and added in a conspiratorial tone, "you can do whatever you want to Chad."
A squeaky angry and suspicious male voice replied from the bag, "Of course, I'll do what I want to the oaf, regardless of your wishes. You're sure you only want a tenth of the gold in my crock? Why not the whole crock?"
Todd had studied up on leprechauns, they were notorious for giving mortals illusory crocks filled with faerie gold instead of the real ones. And fractions tended to confuse them.
"Um, well, I don't need a whole crock of gold, and I don't want to impoverish you. So instead of a tenth, how about 1%- I'm sure you wouldn't miss that pittance, and it will be more than enough for me. Besides I really want to see what you do to Chad. That's worth 9% easy."
"Hm, 1%? Well, I suppose - but two wishes? Most mortals want 3," he sounded less angry and more suspicious.
"Well-" began Todd.
"Oh, I get it you have a radio receiver in the bag, and one of your buddies is broadcasting!" Chad interrupted. He leaned and shouted into the bag's zipper, "Rick? Bruno? Stupid prank. That voice is right out of an old cartoon!"
"Old cartoon! Well, sure as the hills are green, and the skies are blue, let me out of this bag now, an' I'll shew ya wha' I kin do! One percent of my gold, 3 wishes, and you can watch what I do to this big oaf!" the voice shrieked in anger and frustration
"Deal!" Todd shouted. He pulled back on the zipper.
"Wait! I meant two wishes!" the tiny creature shrieked as it leapt out of the gym bag.
"A deal is a deal," Todd replied, "I'm sure I can come up with a third wish. Mommy said never turn down a gift."
"Gift? Gift with purchase I suppose. Well, a deal's a deal," it said grumpily. Then it glared at Chad, who was standing with an open mouth gaping at the tiny man, pointed and said, "you got me so flustered, I gave away an extra wish! Now your punishment will be extra awful!"
Todd rested his elbows on his knees and his chin on his hands, and grinned, "Told you leprechauns were real, Chad."
"That's no leprechaun. His shoes aren't even green!" Chad retorted, "It's a brownie or pixie or dwarf or-"
"Green shoes? Brownie? Pixie?" the tiny man growled, and with disgusted added, "dwarf? I'll teach you a thing or three about the Fair Folk. Green shoes are cursed shoes, put them on and they won't come off until you dance yourself to death! Maybe I should fit you for a pair? Nah, your feet are too big, the leather needed is to costly to waste on the likes of you."
It furled its brow. Then exclaimed with a smile, " I know!"
Chad suddenly felt cold tile beneath his bare feet. His socks and shoes were gone. He looked down, all his clothing was gone. He was stark naked. He wanted to run but his feet remained fixed to the locker room floor. Maybe someone would come in, and help him? Chad glanced at the clock. It was frozen like time had stopped. Then Chad realized he couldn't hear anyone or anything else other than Todd, the leprechaun and himself. Even the sound of dripping shower heads and the roar of the ventilation system were muted. A deathly silence accompanied the unearthly glow growing around the leprechaun who grew from the size of a rabbit to that of a short man standing the end of the bench. Chad's eyes focused on the little man's shiny polished leather with a gold buckle on each shoe.