The Warriors were still chasing the White Rabbit, but it was impossible at this size.
"Wait! Please, just a minute!" called Prim. "Oh, dear…" she sighed.
"We'll never catch him while we're this small…" said Prim.
A swarm of yellow butterflies past them, they appeared to be like pieces of bread with butter slathered on them and when they perched, they became a loaf of bread, surprisingly enough.
"Why, what curious butterflies…" said Claudia.
"You mean bread and butterflies." A voice corrected.
"Yes, of course," Claudia looked everywhere including the Warriors, then noticed the voice was completely different. "Now who do you suppose…" she said.
The Warriors then saw a fly that looked like a rocking horse, stopped and rocked back and forth like a rocking chair.
"A horsefly, oh, I mean, a rocking horsefly!" Alicia observed.
"Naturally!" the voice said again.
"I beg your pardon, but did you… That's nonsense. Flowers can't talk." Alicia stopped herself and saw a red, blossoming, flower right by them.
"But of course we can talk, my dears." The rose told them, showing her true form, surprising them.
"If there's anyone worth talking to." The snap-dragon added.
"Or about!" the daisy finished, giggling flirtatiously.
"And we sing too!" the posies said as the Warriors came near them.
"You do?" asked Prim.
"Oh yes. Would you like to hear 'Tell it to the Tulips'?" a tulip asked.
"No, let's sing about us!" a larkspur protested.
"We know the one about the shy little violets…" a violet added, fading in the back with the other.
"Oh, no, not that old thing!" one lily protested.
"Let's do 'Lovely Lily at the Valley'!" the other agreed.
"How about the daisies in the- -" the daisy was cut off.
"Oh, they wouldn't like that!" a lilac snapped at her.
All of the flowers bickered each other, but the rose stopped them and patted a baton. The flowers stopped and focused their attention on the commanding rose.
"Girls, girls, we shall sing 'Golden Afternoon'." The rose told them. "That's about all o us! Sound you're a, Lily."
Lily: Laaaaa….
Posies: Memememememe….
Daisy: Lalalalalala….
Snap-Dragon: Hahahahaha
Marigold: Boom , boom ,boom, boom
The rose conducted for them and they all sand their melodies together while the Warriors sat in alert and attention to the presentation. They even bent a few weed leaves and sat comfortably like they were attending a concert.
Flowers: Little bread and butterflies kiss the tulips
And the sun is like a toy balloon
They are get up in the morning glories
In the golden afternoon
There are dizzy daffodils in the hillside
Strings of violets are all in tune
Tiger lilies love the dandelions in the golden afternoon
The golden afternoon
Every dog and caterpillars, and the copper centipede
Where the lazy daisies love the very peaceful life they leeeaaaad...
You can learn a lot of things from the flowers
For especially in the month of June
There's a wealth of happiness and romance
All in a golden afternoon
The Warriors bobbed their heads to the peaceful tunes as they watched the flowers do their show. The flowers played some non-living flowers life instruments and the posies came near Prim. They pulled her from the rest of the Warriors and allowed Prim to join in the song.
Flowers: All in the golden afternoon
The golden afternoon
The rose conductor gestured for her to go on and sing with them as she was invited to while the Warriors still sat down to watch.
Prim: You can learn a lot of things from the flowers
Or especially in the month of June
There's a wealth of happiness and romance
AAAALLL!
The Warriors winced slightly from the high note and Prim looked very embarrassed by it. The posies were surprised, but the rose smiled at her for trying.
Flowers: The golden afternoon!
The flowers finished their song complete with drum roll beats and the daisy crashed flower cymbals together to make her petals flutter. And the Warriors clapped for their great performance.
"Oh, that was lovely." said Prim.
"Thank you, my dears." the rose smiled at them.
"What kind of garden do you come from?" the purple, pompous flower asked, playing with Prim's hair.
"Well, we don't come from any garden..." Prim backed up, being mistaken for a flower.
"Oh, do you suppose she's a wild flower." the purple flower asked.
Oh, no, she's not a wild flower." said Alicia.
"What species, or shall we say genus are you?" the rose asked the Warriors, still believing Prim was a flower like the others
Prim wasn't sure what to answer, but tried her best to impress the flowers. "I suppose you can say: Genus, Humanus, Prim!"
"Ever seen a Prim with a blossom like that?" the daisy asked.
"Come to think of it, did you ever see a Prim?" the snap-dragon added to her question with another question.
"Yes, and did you notice their pedals?" the daisy continued to pick at their guests. "What peculiar colors!" she said.
"And no fragrance!" the snap-dragon added as she sniffed their hair.
"Just look at those stems!" said the Daisy.
"Rather scrawny, I'd say." the snap-dragon commented.
"I think she's pretty." a rose bud said.
"Quiet, Bud." the rose said, covering his mouth.
"But, I'm not a flower!" Prim protested, once she got the message that they thought she was one of them.
"Aha! Just as I suspected!" the purple flower went to whisper to the other flowers, looking like a gossipy hen. "She's nothing but a common, movile vulgaris!" she whispered.
"Oh, no!" the other flowers sounded worried.
"A common what?" Connor demanded.
"To put it bluntly: a weed!" the purple flower hissed.
"I'm not a weed!" Prim stomped her foot.
"Well, you can't expect her to admit it!" the tulip spoke up.
"Can you imagine?" a lilac added.
"Well, goodness!" the daisy cried.
"Don't let them stay here and go to seed!" the lily demanded.
"Go on now!" the iris scolded.
"Girls, please!" the rose actually protested, but the other flowers wouldn't listen.
"We don't want weeds in our bed." said the posies as they pushed them away from their home.
The gardens started shooing the Warriors out of the garden and with their instruments. A dog flower barked violently at them as they were on their way out.
"Alright, if that's the way you feel about it, if we were our right sizes, we'd pick every one of you if we wanted to!" Prim glared at them. "I guess that'll teach you." she said.
Suddenly, two flowers washed the Warriors away to another part of Wonderland. It didn't go very well for them. Some nice flowers those were as they laughed at them.
"You can learn a lot of things from the flowers..." Prim huffed. "Seems to me they could learn a few things about manners." she said.
They looked up and saw something colorful in the sky. Their curiosity getting the better of them, they decided to go see where it was coming from and what it was.