With in a few minutes later, Misdreavus came floating back to them.
"Well, what is it?" Felicity asked her Pokemon. "Ami or ennemi?"
"You won't believe this..." Misdreavus whispered, very shocked at what she saw and gestured for the others to follow her.
"We better follow her then." Estelle said.
The others agreed and they followed Misdreavus.
There was a faint singing voice that sounded like he was signing the vowels of A, E, I, O, and U.
"Is someone mispelling the alphabet?" Akito asked.
"Those are the vowels." Vincent told his younger brother.
"Vowels?" Vulpix asked.
"They're letters of the alphabet," Vincent explained the best he could. "They're different than the others because... Because... Uhh..."
"Because Maman said so." Felicity spoke up.
The others glanced at her.
"Um, that is how my parents end an argument..." Felicity explained.
"Okay?" Vulpix said, confused.
"I'll ask Mom and Dad later..." Vincent rolled his eyes slightly.
Alice pulled back the tall blades and looked to see a large blue caterpillar smoking with a hookah.
"A caterpillar?" Akito said, confused.
The others came to see and they did in fact see what they thought they saw.
"Weird, right?" Misdreavus said to them.
"Yeah, weird." Estelle nodded.
"Let's just hope he's friendlier than the flowers." Dinah commented.
The kids, cat, and Pokemon wandered to the drearily singing caterpillar.
"I have not heard such forced singing than when Papa told me how King Adam made him sing 'Deck the Halls'." Felicity whispered.
"I think this guy's dreadful singing might top it." Akito whispered back.
The caterpillar kept singing his lowly song and noticed he had company. "Who are you?" he demanded to know.
"Oh, my..." Teddy said, hiding behind Estelle.
"W-We hardly know, sir," Alice spoke up. "We changed many times, you see..."
The caterpillar raised an eyebrow. "I do not see... Explain yourselves."
"Oh, everything's just so confusing here." Estelle said.
"Why, I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir, because I'm not myself, you know..." Alice tried to explain.
"I do not know." the caterpillar replied.
"Well, we cannot put it more clearly, for it isn't clear to us!" Felicity groaned, pulling on her pigtails in frustration and started to grumble rude French words, cursing the enlarged insect.
"You?" the caterpillar retorted. "Who are you?"
"Don't you think that you should be telling us who you are first?" Larvitar asked.
"Why?" the caterpillar asked.
"Ugh... I have a headache..." Vincent asked. "This is all just so confusing!"
"It is not." the caterpillar insisted.
"Well, it is to us!" Akito told him.
"Why?" the caterpillar seemed to be mocking them worse than the flowers now.
"Well, we can't remember things as we used to, and-" Alice started.
"Recite." the caterpillar said then.
"Recite what?" the Pokemon and cat asked.
"Oh, he must mean like a rhyme." Vincent said.
"Oh, umm... I see..." Alice then attempted to give a rhyme. "'How doth the little busy bee, improve each sh'-"
"Stop!" the caterpillar scolded. "That is not spoken correctically. It goes... How..." he then stopped as no smoke came out from his mouth and he tried to see what the problem was. When he looked down, he saw that two of his legs were crossed over the cord and he slapped them to make them let go. He heard laughter from the kids, Dinah, and the Pokemon.
He sent a look to silence them. The group then looked back and quieted down.
The caterpillar cleared his throat and continued. "'How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile, on every golden scale. How cheer-" he then felt a strange shaking from the leaf he was resting on like a recliner. "'How cheer'-" he tried again, then saw his legs dangling off the end and he picked them up and placed them flat on the leaf firmly.
The kids, Dinah, and the Pokemon started to laugh again, but then stopped.
"'How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws," the caterpillar continued with no interruptions this time. "'And welcome little fishes in, with gently smiling jaws'."
"English is not my first language, but that is a new one on me." Felicity admitted.
"That is new to us as well, because I don't think any of us have ever heard that one before." Akito said.
"It was kind of sad of how those fish got eaten by that crocodile." Larvitar frowned.
"Uh-huh..." Teddy agreed, being the most sad about it. "Even more than those poor oysters!"
"I improved it." the caterpillar explained why they had never heard of it before.
"Well, if you ask me..." Alice spoke up.
"You?" the caterpillar queried again before blowing smoke in the blonde girl's face. "Who are you?"
"We don't have to tell you if you're going to continue to smoke!" Vulpix glared at him before cutting the cord of the caterpillar's smoker/cigarette.
Alice coughed from the smoke.
Dinah hissed. "Don't you dare hurt Alice!"
"Come on, you guys, let's leave before he poisons us all with his smoking." Estelle said.
"You there, children and creatures!" the caterpillar called as the group walked away.
"I don't trust him." Misdreavus growled.
"Ignore him, just ignore him." Vincent said.
Alice found herself unable to and decided to see what the rude caterpillar could possibly want now. "Well?"
"Keep your temper!" the caterpillar replied.
"Is that all?" Alice folded her arms.
"No," the caterpillar then sat up. "Exactically what is your problem?"
"Are you serious?!" Akito asked after coming over also wondering what the caterpillar wanted.
"We just wanna be grande!" Felicity explained, expanding her arms.
"Why?" the caterpillar questioned.
"Well, after all, three inches is such a wretched height, and-" Alice started to say.
That now made the caterpillar angry at them all. "I am exactically three inches high and it's a very good height indeed!"
The group came closer together as the caterpillar was royally angry with them and started to turn red and was surrounded by pink smoke.
"But, we're not used to it, and you needn't SHOUT!" Alice defended with a scold which made the caterpillar's skin shred off and he seemed to be no longer there. "Oh, dear..."
"By the way, I have a few more helpful hints!" the caterpillar's voice returned, showing he had grown butterfly wings now. "One side will make you grow taller!"
"The one side of what?!" Akito asked.
"And the other side will make you shorter!" the caterpillar added to his previous hint.
"The other side of what?!" Alice asked.
"THE MUSHROOM OF COURSE!" The caterpillar told them out of frustration before flying off.
"I know someone who needs a nap..." Teddy frowned as the caterpillar was gone and out of their way.
"Hmm..." Alice looked to the mushroom. "One side will make us grow… But, which is which?"
"I don't care, I just don't want to be small forever." Vulpix said.
"Two each." Dinah suggested.
The kids all took two pieces of the mushroom, then broke them in half and gave the other halves to their companions.
"I don't care what happens now, with what's been happening, I think we can handle anything." Larvitar said.
"And it's exhausting only being three inches high-" Estelle said before she ate the mushrooms with the others and then instantly grew in size. "Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!"
"Going up!" Akito exclaimed.
There was a mother bird in a nest who had trouble as they all grew in a very large size that made them taller than the trees.
"I think that's what Mom and Dad were talking about when they said I'd hit a growth spurt soon!" Vincent gasped.
"Um, Vincent, I think they meant that you would get taller, not get as big as a giant." Akito said.
The mother bird looked down as her nest was now on Alice's head and she screamed. "Serpents! Help! Serpents! Serpents!"
"Oh, but please!" Alice tried to explain.
"Off with you, shoo, shoo, all of you, go away!" the mother bird demanded. "Serpents! Serpents!"
"But we're not serpents!" Vincent told her.
"So, indeed?" the mother bird put her wings on her hips firmly. "Then just what are you?"
"We're just little kids!" Akito and Estelle told her in unison.
"Little? Ha! Little!?" the mother bird then laughed out loud at this.
"We are! Well, we were little." Alice said.
"And I suppose you don't eat eggs either?" the mother bird demanded.
"I actually do not mind one for breakfast..." Felicity started to explain.
"I knew! I knew it!" the mother bird wailed again. "Serpents! Serpents!"
"We are not serpents, you idiot! We are humans!" Akito told her. "Well, except for Dinah, she's a cat and Larvitar, Teddyursa, Vulpix, and Misdreavus, they are Pokemon."
The mother bird kept calling them serpents.
"Can I please eat her?" Dinah glared at the bird.
"Yes, please let Dinah eat that annoying bird." Larvitar begged.
"Eat..." Alice repeated, that actually gave her an idea. "Hmm... Maybe the other side will."
Dinah licked her lips as the mother bird was collecting her numerous eggs from her nest on Alice's head, grumbling about the others. The cat was then ready to pounce, but before she knew it, they were all given the mushrooms and they all shrunk down instantly.
"Whoa!" They all exclaimed.
The mother bird nearly dropped all of her eggs, but she carried and gathered them all, glaring down at the kids, cat, and Pokemon for making that happen after her nest was back in a branch.
"Goodness… I wonder if I'll ever get the knack of it." Alice hummed.
"I wonder if we could just lick the side of the mushroom that makes us grow bigger to get our normal size back." Akito said.
Felicity held out one slice to Misdreavus to test that. Misdreavus licked the side and she grew into a normal size. When the others saw this, they copied and the same result happened.
"Now, I think this is much more manageable." Larvitar said.
"We better keep these slices of mushrooms for later." Akito said.
"All right... Which way should we go?" Teddy came closer out as he looked at one path.
"Hmm, I have no idea." Vincent said, not sure of which way to go.
The others looked to find no other way and just kept going and ended up going into a deep part of the forest.