All in the Golden Afternoon (Minnie version)

Kaa was scurrying away into a huge garden of flowers and made a big hop over it, yet the tiny Minnie was still chasing him.

"Wait! Please!" Minnie called out to Kaa, as she made her way through the large field of flowers, which was like a jungle to her miniature height. "Just a minute!"

However, there was no answer from Kaa, as he had disappeared once again.

"Oh, dear," she said, placing her fists on her hips and shaking her head. "I'll never catch him while I'm this small."

Just then, Minnie looked up to see a group of butterflies with wings of bread with butter spread on each one fluttering by her and landing on a leaf nearby the entrance.

"Why, curious butterflies!" exclaimed Minnie.

"You mean *bread and* butterflies." a female voice said to her.

Minnie said, "Yes, of course, but...Hmmm?" But she gasped in shock and turned to see giant flowers. They were a red rose, a white daisy, a sapphire blue daisy, an amethyst purple iris, white lilies, and a small group of little pansies in a rainbow of colors. There were also a trio of blue bell-shaped flowers; tulips that were colored blue, violet, and pink; and a trio of flower buds in the colors of red, orange, and yellow.

"Now, who do you suppose..." she wondered out loud before a rocking horse with a red saddle, tail, and rockers and clear dragonfly-like wings on its back fluttered by her, neighing.

"Oh! A horsefly!" Minnie exclaimed. The creature swarmed around her before flying away. "I mean, uh...a *rocking* horsefly." Minnie continued.

"Naturally,” the voice said to her again.

Minnie jolted when she heard it and turned to see a beautiful female white Turkish Angora cat, who had just spoken to her. "I beg your pardon, but did you..."

The female cat was still inanimate, as Minnie then said to herself, "Oh, that's nonsense! Flowers can't talk."

"But of course we can talk, my dear." the female cat, who is Duchess, replied to her in a kind voice.

"If there's anyone worth talking to." an African-American woman named Tiana said to Duchess.

An Andalasian woman named Giselle joined in with a bubbly voice and a giggle, "Or about!"

"And we sing, too!" added Ariel's sisters.

"You do?" Minnie asked them, walking over to Ariel's sisters. She then heard a voice answering her, "Oh, yes."

It came from Jasmine, who was with Belle and Mulan. "Would you like to hear "Tell It To the Tulips"?" asked Jasmine.

"No! Let's sing about us!" the balcony girls said.

"We know one about the shy little violets." Panini added, as she, Marie, and Young Nala were hiding their faces bashfully.

"Oh, no! Not that old thing!" Merida said, holding her nose with her hand.

"Let's do "Lovely Lily of the Valley"." Moana said.

"How about the daisies?" Rapunzel and Anna added. They were shoved by Ariel, who declared, "She won't like it at all!"

Duchess tapped her conducting wand, which had the form of a small rose, and raised her arms up to stop the disagreements between the other female characters.

"Girls!" she said, stopping the feud, "We shall sing "Golden Afternoon". That's about all of us."

With a smile of delight on her face, Minnie took a seat on a three-leafed plant that was like a chair to her.

"Sound your "A," Moana." Duchess ordered Moana. Moana let out a joyous and beautiful "La," and Ariel's sisters joined in with a unified "Mi, mi, mi." Then Giselle then added an energetic "la la la," and Tiana emitted a beautiful "Ah, ah, ah, ah" from her mouth. Lastly, Colonel finished the intro with a "Dum du dum dum."

As most of the female characters started to sing their notes in a beautiful unison, the bread and butterflies fluttered away from the leaf and above the tulips that were bobbing back and forth in a joyous way. They then passed by Cosmo the Seedrian and Cream the Rabbit who had just woken up from their soothing slumber.

Female Characters: *Little bread and butterflies kiss the tulips*
*And the sun is like a toy balloon*
*There are get up in the morning glories*
*In the golden afternoon*

Duchess waved her wand with a merry smile on her face as she turned to the left. The bread and butterflies fluttered by some different colored Yoshis. Yellow Yoshi smacked Green Yoshi with his hand. Minnie was mimicking the conductor’s movements as her choice to join in the lovely serenade the flowers were singing altogether. Jeanette Miller gave Simon Seville an affectionate kiss, making it let out a lovable sigh to his sweetheart.

Female Characters: *There are dizzy daffodils on the hillside*
*Strings of violets are all in tune*
*Tiger lilies love the dandy lions*
*In the golden afternoon*
***The golden afternoon***

Duchess continued to wave her wand before the rocking horsefly landed on it, and she swiftly shook her wand and shooed rocking horsefly the away with it.

Meanwhile, two caterpillars in the form of Pluto and Tom the Cat were clashing with one another like a cat and a dog, whereas the rocking horsefly by Snow White, who was yawning lazily. Aurora was resting on a hammock made out of a spider's web when the rocking horsefly swarmed around her, only to be swatted away by the sleepy British woman's hand.

Female Characters: *There are dog and caterpillars and the copper centipede*
*Where the lazy daisies love the very peaceful life*
*They lead*

Minnie and Duchess were also yawning for a short time, before they got back to enjoying the song.

Female Characters: *You can learn a lot of things from the flowers*
*For especially in the month of June*

Duchess resumed her conducting as the other female characters continued to sing, before her focus turned to an Italian woman named Cinderella, who was underneath a drapery of cobwebs sparkling in dew.

Cinderella: *There's a wealth of happiness and romance*

Female Characters: *All in the golden afternoon*

Minnie swiftly turned her head and saw pink flowers in the shapes of bells ringing, which were made by the bubbly Giselle. A set of four snapdragons and a set of white snapdragons let out flute sounds as the shadow of the conducting female Turkish Angora appeared next to them. Three yellow orchids in the forms of tubas let out unified tunes that blended well, and they sounded on-key. Tiana strummed a yellow lily in the form of a harp, which sounded like a string bass.

Suddenly, the flock of bread and butterflies fluttered passed by Duchess and came to Minnie, delighting her. Then they tugged on the skirt of her dress and her tail and carefully brought her over to Ariel's sisters as the female characters all sang their next line.

Female Characters: *All in the golden afternoon*
*The golden afternoon*

Once Minnie had made her way to Ariel's sisters, the bread and butterflies flew away from them and it was her turn to sing. Duchess had a warm smile on her face and she started conducting again as Minnie sang the same line the female characters and Cinderella sang earlier.

Minnie: *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*

Minnie's line was suddenly cut short, as there was a brief break in her voice, and she placed a hand on her mouth and her eyes widened in shock. Her singing voice had made Tiana shake her head and Giselle form a surprised look on her face, but Duchess didn't mind the small mistake Minnie had just made.

All of the female characters sung out their final line as Duchess continued to conduct, their voices blending into a beautiful mixture of song and the daffodil tubas blaring triumphantly.

Female Characters: *The golden afternoon*

Bunnie Rabbot was playing drums that were made up of chrysanthemum buds with her paws that were flashing lights in the colors of magenta, blue, and yellow, as Dulcy the Dragon lifted two yellow daisies in the form of cymbals. Duchess lifted her wand up, and Dulcy slammed the cymbals together, making a loud crashing noise to end the song. Duchess took a bow with her wand on hand, as Minnie was clapping in praise of the beautiful melody she had just heard.

"Ohh, that was lovely!" she said to Duchess, who leaned in toward her.

"Thank you, my dear." Duchess replied to her kindly, gently patting Minnie on the head.

"What kind of garden do you come from?" Giselle, placing the tip of her left index finger on the left side of her face.

"Well, I don't come from any garden." Minnie answered, making Giselle gasp in surprise.

"Do you suppose she's a wildflower??" Giselle asked Tiana, shoving her roughly. Tiana had a curious expression on her face.

"Oh, no. I'm not a wildflower at all." Minnie said to Giselle.

"Just what specie or, should we say, genus are you, my dear?" Duchess asked Minnie.

"Well, ummm...I suppose you would call me a genus humanus, Minnie!"

"Ever see a Minnie with a blossom like that?" Giselle asked, a humorous smile forming on her face.

"Come to think of it," Tiana said, "Did you ever see a Minnie?"

"Yes! And did you notice her petals?"

Giselle leaned in toward Minnie, examining her closely. "What a peculiar color!"

Tiana sniffed Minnie's black fur-hair for a second and added, "And no fragrance."

Giselle leaned in toward Minnie and lifted the skirt of her dress, revealing her bloomer-clad thighs, and observed her legs carefully. "Why, just look at those stems!" she exclaimed.

"Rather scrawny, I'd say." Tiana added, as Minnie formed a disgruntled frown on her face and pulled her dress away from Giselle's grip.

"Ookyoo! Ookyoo! *(I think she's pretty.)*" Penelope Ham-Ham said, only to have her mouth covered by Pashmina's paw.

"Quiet, Penelope." Pashmina soothingly told her.

"But I'm not a flower!" Minnie exclaimed to the female characters, surprised and unhappy with their assumptions that she was a flower rather than the mouse she actually was.

"Aha!" exclaimed Tiana, "Just as I suspected!" She then leaned in toward Duchess and whispered in her ear, saying, "She's nothing but a common movable vulgaris."

"Ohhh, no!" the twelve little girls exclaimed in unison.

"What?" Minnie asked, looking around in confusion.

"To put it bluntly, a weed!" Tiana observed sternly.

"I'm not a weed!" Minnie objected, folding her arms.

"Well, she wouldn't expect to admit it," Jasmine said to Mulan and Belle.

"Can you imagine?" Rapunzel said to Anna, who nodded to her.

"Goodness!" Giselle exclaimed, as the female characters were all gossiping about Minnie being the weed they had detested so much.

"Don't go to seed here!" Merida scolded Minnie, frightened by Tiana's assumption that Minnie was a weed.

Minnie felt herself being pushed by one of the female characters, who told her to go on, and she stumbled into Ariel's sisters.

"Please, girls!" Duchess begged the other female characters.

"We don't want weeds in our bed!" Ariel's sisters all said in unison, as one of them pushed Minnie up. The female black mouse then scurried away from Ariel's sisters, only to be pushed by the hand of Snow White, who told her to move along.

As Minnie made her way through the garden, the pink and purple snapdragons blared in her ears, and Simon and Jeanette growled ferociously at her, and even Poochy was barking at her.

"All right!" Minnie yelled with a stern tone of voice, "If that's the way you feel about me, then here's what I have to say to all of you: If I were my right height, I would pick every one of you if I wanted to! Then I guess that ought to teach you a lesson about treating a lady with respect!"

Red Yoshi and Pink Yoshi were giggling to one another, as if they had something in store for Minnie. They pushed down a blade of grass with a drop of water on it like a bucket, and the water spilled onto Minnie, causing her to fall over and ride on an orange leaf as if it were a small boat. The female characters started to laugh at her as Minnie then grabbed hold of a small weed's stem and squeezed the skirt of her dress to get rid of the water. Her wet fur-hair was covering her face as she then muttered, "You can learn a lot of things from the flowers. Hmph! Seems to me they could learn a few things about manners!"

Once she took off her bow, Minnie shook her head rapidly like a dog getting out of a bath to remove the water before fixing her fur-hair with her fingers and placing her bow back on her head. When she was all dried up, Minnie then made her way to find Kaa...if only she knew where he would be going next in this odd world she was in.