Plants vs Zombies: World of Magic

I: Gardening Beginnings

He had recently bought flowers for his garden at home, they were quite cheap actually

Infact each of them costed 5 Silver coins which he could earn through selling his grown plants, and each plant he sold has earned him 20 silver coins
That's how cheap they are

Anyway moving back to him, the gardener is currently walking back home through a lone pathway only lit with only torches which are scattered along the way

However the problem with this pathway is that bandits commonly patrol around these areas
The knights from Catherina won't dare protect this pathway so every person travelling here are vulnerable to bandits, unless they brought weapons intended for self defense of course
The reason? This pathway is far from Catherina

Heck even the guards around Catherina recommend travelers to arm themselves Incase of bandit attacks
So he's brought himself with a dagger! A good weapon that could defend him Incase someone starts to mug him with a shoddy weapon, it's not very good with some bandit that has a bow or crossbow but hey atleast it helps.

As he travels down the path, he looks around, looking for people hiding in plain sight with malicious intent, his hands currently carrying tons of potted plants from the store

And as he was about to look at the path infront of him..

"Braaains.."

"What the hell?"

Someone had said something on his right, he turned to the bushes looking for the source of the sound
"Groaaan.." "brenz." "Burrr.."

"Alright alright" he grabbed his dagger from his small hilt and pointed it at the bush "show yourself!"

And they did

Pale green people with rather large and funny looking eyes and a gaping mouth walked out of the bush, with a few more behind it, it wore a brown coat with a red tie which was weird since ties were meant for parties

And they stumbled on every step these weird men took

He backed away, not sure on what to do
"Brains..." "Aargh.."
"Alright, stay back you weird looking people!" He swung his dagger around "Take another step and I'll be forced to use my dagger against you!"

They didn't seem to care as the green people kept on walking straight at him

"Alright if that's what you want.. then you have a death wish!" He swung his dagger at a zombie that was infront of him, his weapon cut into it's brown coat and to the person he's fighting, for some reason it's right arm just fell off right before it's head.. popped off from it's torso?

The headless person would stumble before collapsing into the ground, he looked at the corpse beneath him "what the hell?" He muttered under his breath
"It doesn't matter, all I have to do is defend myself.." he would do the same to the other three zombies, they all tried grabbing him but he kept out of the way and popped their arms off from their torso with his dagger

"Brains..."
"Persistent.. how are you not in pain?"
It didn't take long before each zombie he fought had it's head popped off

He looked into each of the zombies he once fought, and then looked at the heads
"What the hell are you-" he reached his hand out to the nearest hand
"BRAINZ!" a head tried reaching out to him, it's mouth tried biting his hand, he pulled back his before the zombie head slowly turned stale, not moving

"Some dark mage must've been practicing necromancy in the Forest nearby here.. whatever then.." he shrugged before continuing on his path to his home "must get to my house before more undead come biting my skin.. tomorrow someone's gonna finish off that necromancer and this path will be safer than before"