"Mr. Rabbit, please wait! We can't keep up!" Estelle called out.
"Oh, dear..." Dinah sighed. "We'll never catch up to him while we're this small... I bet there are mice bigger than me now!"
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.
"How peculiar." Estelle said.
"Curious butterflies..." Vincent tilted his head.
"You mean bread and butterflies." a voice corrected.
"Yes, of course, I meant-" Vincent said, then realized he didn't recognize that voice. "Who said that...?"
"Don't know." Vulpix said.
The others looked around and then saw a fly that looked like a rocking horse.
"A horsefly, or, I guess, a rocking horse fly." Akito noticed.
"Naturally." the same voice replied.
"Where is that voice coming from?" Larvitar asked.
Estelle then had an idea of where it might be coming from, even if it didn't make sense. They only saw, in their perspective, a large rose.
"You don't suppose that flower said something, do you?" Dinah spoke up.
"Oh, Dinah, that's nonsense," Alice told her pet. "Flowers can't talk."
"Yeah, it's just not possible." Teddy smiled.
"But of course we can talk, my dears," the rose came alive, shocking them all.
"If there's anyone worth talking to." an iris added.
"Or about!" a daisy spoke up with a gossipy giggle.
"Wow." Estelle smiled.
"And we sing too!" a group of pansies added in.
"Really now?" Felicity asked.
"Oh, yes, would you like to hear Tell it to the Tulips?" a tulip offered.
"That would be-" Teddy said before getting interrupted.
"No, let's sing about us!" the larkspurs insisted.
"We know one about the Shy Little Violets." a violet spoke up, hiding with her friend.
'This could take a while.' Larvitar thought to himself.
The flowers kept arguing, but the rose stopped them, being the sensible one. "Girls, girls! We shall sing: 'Golden afternoon'. That's about all of us! Sound your A, Lily!"
The flowers then warmed up before they started singing and the rose acted as the conductor. Each of the kids sat on leaves that seemed to be in the shape of chairs while the Pokemon and Dinah sat at their feet.
This line made the kids yawn for some reason, but they kept listening to the song.
The other flowers started to play with other flowers like instruments and made a lively symphony as lively as a high school marching band at a grand parade.
'This song is so lovely, I hope that me and the others can join in.' Estelle thought to herself.
The other flowers urged the kids to join the pansies. The rose smiled to them and gestured for them to sing along to the song. Felicity was nervous about singing, she did not do it, it was only to herself, so no one knew what sort of singing voice she had. Her father only sang well when he felt like singing and her mother did not sing very often, so she was worried of what the others would think of her singing voice.
Alice accidentally made the last part too high, but the rose smiled at them for trying and thought it was lovely. Felicity took a breath of relief, that went better than she had hoped for.
There was a beating drum roll and the daisy crashed two flowers to make cymbals smash. The kids, Dinah, and the Pokemon all clapped and cheered for the flowers.
"That was lovely." Estelle smiled.
"Thank you." the rose smiled.
"Felicity, I didn't know you could sing." Vincent said to the deathly pale girl.
"I did not know myself..." Felicity rubbed her arm, smiling sheepishly.
"Well, you sounded wonderful." Misdreavus smiled.
"You did too, Alice, except for the part when you went a little high on one of the parts." Dinah said.
"Yeah..." Alice agreed.
"Now, dears, what kind of garden do you all come from?" the daisy asked.
"Oh, well, we don't come from gardens..." Akito tried to explain.
"Oh, do you suppose they're wild flowers?" the daisy asked her friends.
"No, we're not wild flowers either, you see, me, my brothers, cousin, and our friend are all humans and these are, Dinah, she's a cat, Teddy, he's a Teddiursa and these are Larvitar, Vulpix, and Misdreavus, all four of them are Pokemon." Estelle told the flowers.
"I suppose you could say we're genus-humanus: Alice, Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity." Alice added.
"And we're genus Pokemon and felinus!" Dinah also input.
"Ever see such ones with a blossom like that?" the daisy asked.
"Come to think of it, have you ever seen them?" the iris added, rather snootily.
"Listen, we aren't usually this small." Teddy said.
"Did you notice their petals?" the daisy continued to pick at their guests. "What peculiar colors!"
"And no fragrance!" the iris added as she sniffed their hair and fur.
"Knock it off!" Larvitar demanded.
"Papa, may I please burn these flowers down?!" Vulpix asked out of anger.
"I'm not liking them much either..." Akito felt angry with the flowers as they picked on them.
"Rather scrawny, I'd say." the iris commented.
"I think the girls are pretty!" a bud spoke up.
"Quiet, Bud." a rose scolded her bud.
"Oh, for the love of... We are not flowers!" Misdreavus groaned.
"Aha, just as I suspected!" the iris grinned wickedly before whispering to the rose and the other flowers to hear. "They're nothing but a bunch of common movile vulgarises!"
"Oh, no!" the other flowers called in dismay like that was the worst thing ever.
"Common what?" Alice questioned.
"They think that we're weeds," Akito said. "And we are not weeds."
"Well, you wouldn't expect them to admit it." a tulip scoffed.
"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.
"Please, girls!" the rose actually protested, but the other flowers wouldn't listen.
"That's it! Vulpix, use Flamethrower on all of them!" Vincent ordered.
"With pleasure!" Vulpix snarled at the flowers who kept trying to shut them out. "If we were our right sizes, we'd pick every last one of you and that would teach you!" he then got his flames ready.
Two daffodils looked to each other and then decided to wash them all away with some water. But before they could the water seemed to dry out with Vulpix's fire which was now spreading to all of the flowers.
The flowers screamed as they were being flamed, quite literally, by Vulpix.
"Serves you right!" Vulpix huffed. "Come on, guys, let's get out of here."
"Thank you, Vulpix..." Alice pet the fire fox Pokemon once his flames fumed out. "Seems to me those flowers could learn a few things about manners!"
"You got that right." Akito nodded.
And with that, the group then went off, wandering away from the flowers. They looked up and saw something colorful in the sky. Their curiousity getting the better of them, they decided to go see where it was coming from and what it was.
"What could it be?" Estelle smiled. "Maybe it's someone that can help us."
"It better not be another flower." Vincent growled.
"I'm sure it is not..." Felicity said as she walked ahead.
"Same here, besides what kind of flower could make those kind of clouds or puffs of smoke?" Akito asked.
"Yeah, you two do make a great point." Vincent smiled.
Misdreavus floated ahead to try to get a look. "It's too far away..." she struggled, then came back down to Felicity's side.
"Why don't you float ahead and see what it is?" Felicity suggested.
"Will you be alright?" Misdreavus asked.
"Go ahead..." Felicity urged. "Also that way you can see if it is friend or foe."
Misdreavus agreed to that, she then floated higher and floated closer to the smoke clouds, they made her cough a little, but she kept going until she would find out who or what it was coming from.
"I hope it's a friend." Alice said.
"Me too." Dinah purred.