chapter 7

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"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.

Flowers: Little bread and butterflies
Kiss the tulips
And the sun is like a toy balloon (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
The dandy lilies kisses the dandy lions in the golden afternoon. (golden afternoon)
Every dog and caterpillars and the copper centipede

Where the lazy daisies
Love the very peaceful life
They lead...

This line made the kids yawn for some reason, but they kept listening to the song.

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