All in the Golden Afternoon (Viper version)

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

"Wait! Please!" Viper called out to Jiminy, 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 Jiminy, as he had disappeared once again.

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

Just then, Viper 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 Viper.

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

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

"Naturally,” the voice said to her again.

Viper jolted when she heard it and turned to see a beautiful female white Alicorn with a blue, pink, teal, and light green mane and tail, who had just spoken to her. "I beg your pardon, but did you..."

The white Alicorn was still inanimate, as Viper then said to herself, "Oh, that's nonsense! Flowers can't talk."

"But of course we can talk, my dear." the white Alicorn, who is Princess Celestia, replied to her in a kind voice.

"If there's anyone worth talking to." a dark blue Alicorn with a sparkling blue and periwinkle-blue mane and tail named Princess Luna said to Celestia.

A pink Alicorn with a purple, magenta, and cream-colored mane and tail named Princess Cadence joined in with a bubbly voice and a giggle, "Or about!"

"And we sing, too!" added the squirrel scouts.

"You do?" Viper asked them, walking over to the squirrel scouts. She then heard a voice answering her, "Oh, yes."

It came from Aurora, who was with Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. "Would you like to hear "Tell It To the Tulips"?" asked Aurora.

"No! Let's sing about us!" Ariel's sisters said.

"We know one about the shy little violets." Cecilia Nuthatch added, as she, Princess Eilonwy, and Robyn Starling were hiding their faces bashfully.

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

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

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

Celestia tapped her conducting wand, which had the form of a small rose, and raised her legs 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, Viper took a seat on a three-leafed plant that was like a chair to her.

"Sound your "A," Cinderella." Celestia ordered Cinderella. Cinderella let out a joyous and beautiful "La," and the squirrel scouts joined in with a unified "Mi, mi, mi." Then Cadence then added an energetic "la la la," and Luna emitted a beautiful "Ah, ah, ah, ah" from her mouth. Lastly, Big Macintosh 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 Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon 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*

Celestia waved her wand with a merry smile on her face as she turned to the left. The bread and butterflies fluttered by some fillies. Scootaloo smacked Babs Seed with her hoof. Viper was mimicking the conductor’s movements as her choice to join in the lovely serenade the flowers were singing altogether. Faline gave Bambi 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***

Celestia 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 Pooka and Tai Lung were clashing with one another like a cat and a dog, whereas the rocking horsefly by Ariel, who was yawning lazily. Mulan 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 Chinese 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*

Viper and Celestia 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*

Celestia resumed her conducting as the other female characters continued to sing, before her focus turned to a German woman named Snow White, who was underneath a drapery of cobwebs sparkling in dew.

Snow White: *There's a wealth of happiness and romance*

Female Characters: *All in the golden afternoon*

Viper swiftly turned her head and saw pink flowers in the shapes of bells ringing, which were made by the bubbly Cadence. A set of four snapdragons and a set of white snapdragons let out flute sounds as the shadow of the conducting female white Alicorn appeared next to them. Three yellow orchids in the forms of tubas let out unified tunes that blended well, and they sounded on-key. Luna 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 Celestia and came to Viper, delighting her. Then they lifted her up, carefully brought her over to the squirrel scouts, and gently set her on the ground, as the female characters all sang their next line.

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

Once Viper had made her way to the squirrel scouts, the bread and butterflies flew away from them and it was her turn to sing. Celestia had a warm smile on her face and she started conducting again as Viper sang the same line the female characters and Snow White sang earlier.

Viper: *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*

Viper'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 Luna shake her head and Cadence form a surprised look on her face, but Celestia didn't mind the small mistake Viper had just made.

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

Female Characters: *The golden afternoon*

Moana was playing drums that were made up of chrysanthemum buds with drum mallets that were flashing lights in the colors of magenta, blue, and yellow, as Anna lifted two yellow daisies in the form of cymbals. Celestia lifted her wand up, and Dulcy slammed the cymbals together, making a loud crashing noise to end the song. Celestia took a bow with her wand on hoof, as Viper smiled and nodded at the beautiful melody she had just heard.

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

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

"What kind of garden do you come from?" asked Cadence, placing her left hoof on the left side of her face.

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

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

"Oh, no. I'm not a wildflower at all." Viper said to Cadence.

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

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

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

"Come to think of it," Luna said, "Did you ever see a Viper?"

"Yes! And did you notice her petals?"

Cadence leaned in toward Viper, examining her closely. "What a peculiar color!"

Luna sniffed Viper for a second and added, "And no fragrance."

Cadence leaned in toward Viper and lifted her by the tail, and observed her underbelly carefully. "Why, just look at those stems!" she exclaimed.

"Rather scrawny, I'd say." Luna added, as Viper formed a disgruntled frown on her face and pulled away from Cadence's grip, making her drop the female snake to the ground.

"I think she's pretty." Blossom said, only to have her mouth covered by Ms. Keane's hand.

"Quiet, Blossom." Ms. Keane soothingly told her.

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

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

"Ohhh, no!" the gossiping elephants exclaimed in unison.

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

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

"I'm not a weed!" Viper objected, glaring at Luna.

"Well, she wouldn't expect to admit it," Aurora said to the three good fairies.

"Can you imagine?" Belle said to Jasmine, who nodded to her.

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

"Don't go to seed here!" Pocahontas scolded Viper, frightened by Luna's assumption that Viper was a weed.

Viper felt herself being pushed by one of the female characters, who told her to go on, and she stumbled into the squirrel scouts.

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

"We don't want weeds in our bed!" the squirrel scouts all said in unison, as one of them pushed Viper up. The female snake then scurried away from the squirrel scouts, only to be pushed by the hand of Tiana who told her to move along.

As Viper made her way through the garden, the pink and purple snapdragons blared in her ears, and Bambi and Faline bleated ferociously at her, and even Percy was barking at her.

"All right!" Viper 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!"

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were giggling to one another, as if they had something in store for Viper. They pushed down a blade of grass with a drop of water on it like a bucket, and the water spilled onto Viper, 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 Viper then grabbed hold of a small weed's stem. Her whole body was wet, and 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 flowers, Viper shook her head and the rest of her whole body rapidly like a dog getting out of a bath to remove the water before fixing her flowers back on her head. When she was all dried up, Viper then made her way to find Jiminy...if only she knew where he would be going next in this odd world she was in.