Disclaimer 1: I do not own "Tarzan," or its characters. They are property of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Walt Disney Company.
Disclaimer 2: I do not own "The Lion King," or its characters. They are property of the Walt Disney Company.
"The Jungle Book of Jane Porter: Part 6"
By TwilightSparkle3562
Chapter 1
"An Assassination in Sarajevo"
In the two years since Archimedes was killed in the sinking of the Titanic, the lives of Tarzan and Jane were filled with ups and downs. Jane had since become pregnant again and although it was bittersweet since her father wasn't here to witness his grandchild being born, she made a promise to herself that if it was a boy, it would be partially named after him.
However, while the king and queen of the jungle were preparing themselves to welcome an heir to the jungle throne, the world around them was about to be changing. It would all start in a small city called Sarajevo on an early summer's day in 1914. A young man and his friends were preparing to carry out a senseless act of murder that would turn the entire world upside down and start a war to end all wars. His name was Gavirio Princip, an idealist who was inspired that he could change the world by helping create a new republic.
For years, Princip and his peers had objectives that the South Slav provinces of the Austria-Hungary Empire should be united to form a new republic called Yugoslavia. However, in order to make their case known to the world, they would have to kill the heir to the kingdom's throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
On the afternoon of June 28, 1914, Princip sat in a Sarajevo café waiting for the moment that the Archduke's procession would come. The young man and his friends had attempted to kill the archduke earlier in the day by placing a bomb at a spot in the motorcade route, but it failed and several of his friends were arrested.
"Would you like some coffee, sir?" asked a waiter as Princip sat a table reading one of Archimedes' books on the longevity of gorillas. The young man waived his hand away and the waiter left.
"If Professor Porter could prove to the world that the Gorillas deserve to expand," he thought to himself. "Then why can't we form a republic and expand?"
For a while, Princip continued to read the book that was written by Archimedes before they left for Africa. Gaviro remembered meeting Archimedes a few years earlier when he spoke at the university of Sarajevo. He could well remember how enthusiastic Archimedes was as he spoke and how beautiful his daughter, Jane looked as she stood next to him.
"If I can prove to the world that I can make a difference," he said to himself. "Then I can make Professor Porter proud of my accomplishments."
However, what Princip failed to understand was that republics and communities grow naturally in time. But, he and his comrades were not going to listen; they had their own agendas to follow. An hour later, Princip had just finished reading the book when he saw the crowds gathering in front of the shop and knew that his target was coming.
"The time has come," he whispered as he pulled out his gun and loaded the bullets into it. With his gun loaded, Princip walked outside and came towards a clearing in the crowds where he could get a clear shot of the Archduke's motorcade. Soon, he saw the car come and with the Archduke and his wife inside, he stepped forward and drew the gun from his pocket.
"DIE, YOU PIGS!" he screamed and fired two rounds, hitting the archduke and his wife. The crowds began to scream wildly as several policemen ran forward and tackled Princip to the ground. The young assassin tried to fight the policemen off, but he couldn't and his gun had been knocked from his hands the moment he was tackled.
"Help! Help!" cried Princip, but more and more policemen surrounded him as he was dragged away from the scene.
Meanwhile, the archduke and his wife were bleeding profusely and Ferdinand was pleading for his wife to survive.
"Sophie, Sophie! Don't die! Live for our children!" he begged, as his blood began to cough up from his chest. The beautiful countess looked back at her husband with glass eyes as she felt her life slipping away.
"It's nothing," she gasped and the sounds of a death rattle were heard as saliva and fluids came out of her mouth. Ferdinand could see that his wife would not live and knew that he was to be joining her soon. Indeed, Ferdinand died ten minutes after his wife.
As news of the Archduke's assassination began to spread, the coffee waiter who had come to Princip earlier had spotted the book that Professor Porter wrote which he had left behind before the Archduke and Countess were killed.
"Excuse me, sir," he said to a policeman, handing him the book. "I found this book at the assassin's table. It was written by Archimedes Porter."
The policeman looked at the book and noticed that there appeared to be a serious of markings that Princip had made in the book. After a moment, the policeman thanked the waiter and immediately took the book back to the Sarajevo police station where several detectives were looking at it.
"Could this man have been influenced by the professor?" asked one of the detectives, walking over to a window. "According to some eyewitnesses, Professor Porter was very influential when he visited here before journeying to Africa."
"Now, this is how he is thanked after all he has done for the world?" remarked another detective. "I fear there will soon be severe consequences as a result of what happened today."
"What do you mean?" remarked yet another detective. "Are you saying that…?"
The detective was still standing at the window when he looked down at his colleagues with a grim expression on his face.
"Yes," he said. "What happened here today is only a sign of events to come. The world will take note and all countries, especially Germany, will fight in a war that will change the world forever."
"The entire world?" gasped the detectives.
"Yes," he replied, looking over towards a map of the globe. "Europe, the Middle East and Africa will be targeted. The only thing we can do now is pray that a war does not happen. If it does happen, then we will play out the game and leave the decisions to God."
Of course, that wasn't the outcome, but the detectives prayed anyway and in the days that followed, countries everywhere declared war on one another and the country leading the charge was Germany, who had a colony in the jungles where Tarzan and Jane were.
The outside world would soon come down on the home that Tarzan, Jane and their newborn child lived in drawing them into this conflict that would change the world forever…