This Story shall be a mixture of the original Tarzan novels and films Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes, The classic Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller and the Jungle Book from 1942. Jane's hair will be blonde like in the original novel and she and Archimedes will also be Native Americans, there will also be two graphic love scenes between her and Tarzan. I will also use the original characters Tarzan, Jane, Cecil, Archimedes, Paul d'Arnot Esmeralda, Kerchak and Kala, I will also use some original characters of my own. The Mangani will large Gorillas they are in most Tarzan stories and Sabor will be joined by her mate Numa the Lion, Kerchak will also be Kala's mate only he'll be a good guy so enjoy reading this story and please comment on it Thank you very much.
One more thing I do not own Tarzan, Jane or any of the characters they are strictly property of Burroughs Inc.
Chicago, November 26th 1912
That night Burroughs woke up with a start. He had just had a dream about some Wildman living in the African Wilderness and he dreamed that he had carried of a beautiful young woman from Baltimore named Jane Porter, now many would say that it would be a complete myth but it wasn't. He looked at the clock on his bedside table, it was half past 2 in the morning.
Currently he and his wife Emma were renting the spare room in their house to Archimedes Q. Porter, a famous Zoologist teacher at the University of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. Prof. Porter was staying with them until the next night when he was to get on a train that would take him to the harbour in New York where he would board a ship bound for Africa. Emma had noticed her husband's gasp of fright and woke up to see if he was okay.
"Ed are you okay" Emma asked.
"I'm fine love" Burroughs said as he turned to face his wife and he gave her a reassuring smile.
"What caused to wake dear" Emma asked with concern.
Ed stayed quite for a few moments before speaking again "it was about that Wildman you know who was named Tarzan who was said to be living over in West Africa".
"You mean the same one that you being having ever since that story in the papers two years ago" asked Emma.
"Yes the very same" Ed told his wife.
"Well surely it could have being just a story that the papers decided to make up" Emma told him.
Ed then pulled a serious face "Oh no Emma it was no story it was truth, Prof. Archimedes and Cecil Clayton said so themselves".
"So what are you going to do then" asked Emma.
"Well I think that I should ask Prof. Porter tomorrow and ask him if the story is really true" Ed told his wife.
"You should do that then" Emma told her husband.
Ed smiled at his wife, just then he got out of bed and put on his slippers and dress gown and headed for the door.
"Where are you going Ed" asked Emma.
"I'm just going down stairs to make myself a cup of tea to help me get back to sleep dear" said Ed as he looked at his wife "you go back to sleep"
"Okay then Ed" said Emma as he went out the door and Emma lay back down again.
Ed crept silently pass his sleeping children's as he did not want to wake them up. He went down stairs and past the families sleeping dog as he entered the kitchen. Inside was a fifty three year old balding man with a moustache wearing a dressing gown and glasses who was also making himself some tea, he heard the door open and turned to see who it was.
"Oh Prof. Porter I didn't know you were up" said Ed has he entered the kitchen.
"Neither did I Ed" said Archimedes with a smile "what are you doing up this late at night if I may ask".
"I was just coming down to make some tea to calm my nerves and then I was going to go back to bed" Ed told the balding Professor.
"Still thinking about your next book" asked Archimedes.
Ed nodded and the responded "yes I need to get one out soon".
Archimedes just smiled "don't worry Ed I'm sure you'll think of something good, if I recall your first novel A Princess of Mars was an all-time best seller".
"Why thank you Archie" said Edgar clearly touched by the man's kind words.
"Anyway would you like me to make some tea too Ed" asked Prof. Porter kindly.
"Yes please thank you Prof. Porter" said Ed.
As Archimedes was letting the water for the tea to boil he and Ed sat down by the table.
"Say Archimedes" asked Ed.
"Yes Ed" Archimedes replayed kindly.
Ed stayed quiet for a few moments before speaking.
"Is it too late to hear the story about your daughter and that Wildman Tarzan of the West African Jungle, I know because you were there about three years ago".
Archimedes just smiled and then spoke "not at all Edgar and you're right I was there, in fact would you also like to hear it now".
Edgar's eyes widened "really".
"Of course said Archimedes smiling "but first would you like me to tell you about the life and inhabitants of that jungle".
"Lay it on me then" said Ed with interest in his voice.
Archimedes drew a deep and then he started too talked "imagine yourself standing in a jungle clearing near a waterfall and a silence so vast that even the ear can hear it."
The scene then changes to a beautiful view of the jungles of West Africa. It is nothing but a sea of green with a water barely seen and an erupting volcano in the background (I'm using this scene from Greystoke) and with the calls tropical birds being heard, now we are in the rainforest. Tropical trees and plant life cover the area in a carpet of green as the sun shines down through the canopy and tropical birds take flight whilst monkeys swing on vines and pick fruit of the branches of certain trees.
"Imagine the jungle so quiet and peaceful with only the calls of tropical birds being ringing out through its vast green sea, the giant trees soar up to heaven and furs and leaf litter on the floor like a carpet covering the room, at first you would think that nothing lives here but that is where you would be wrong"
A group of Mountain Zebras are seen grazing by the side of a river, a foal leaves its mothers sides and plays with the other foals.
"This is the tribe of Pacco the Zebra, eaters of grass and leaves in a world of torn flesh, early in its life the little foal must be constantly on the lookout and must also learn the lesson, hooves that make no noise and eyes that see in the dark and ears that listen".
As the Zebras eat their greens minding their own businesses we see a male Leopard with his mate and their four cubs emerge from the bushes nearby, the cubs are hungry, not for their mother's milk but for meat. The leopard family see the Zebras and the male creeps silently towards them.
"For if they do not learn when Sheeta the Leopard, once he come out of his lair will feast on their lifeless carcass".
The Leopard is now quietly stalking the Zebras who are now becoming weary.
"But even Sheeta the Leopard lives by the Law of Claw, Horn and Fang, he will kill only to satisfy his hunger but he will never kill for killings sake, the one law that all humans seen to break but the jungle folk follow without question".
The Leopards are still stalking the Zebra but then the lookout sees them and lets out a warning bark, but it comes too late as the Leopard leaps onto his back and brings him down as the rest of the herd flee in terror, the Leopard then gives a growl that tells his family come out now that dinner is served, as they come out to feast we then seen the Zebra herd fleeing into the jungle from the side of the river.
Next we see a small herd of Elephants stomping through the bushes and through a swamp, the calves are holding onto their mother's tails as the leader a large male with his left tusk broken off leads them to find food.
"These are the lords of the African Jungle the tribe of Tantor the Elephant, they go their way eaters of grass and leaves in a world of carnage".
The Elephants then come to a pool where some go swimming in as the others eating the leaves from a tale tree nearby, the calves play in the mud whilst their mothers hose themselves down in the pool as their leader watches his beloved herd enjoying themselves.
The scene then changes to a vast savannah just outside the jungle, yellowish grass and umbrella thorn acacia trees, a loud snorting is heard and a Black Rhinoceros comes into view as it stops to graze on some of the grass.
"Out of all the jungle folk none are as ill-tempered as the second largest inhabitant of the jungle and that is the tribe of Buto the Rhinoceros, for he is the most unsociable member of the jungle menagerie you could ever meet in the as he charges at almost everything even other rhinos, except only when time comes to breed".
The Rhinoceros is busy grazing on the grass minding its own business and then it charges off into the distance.
Next we see a tribe of large Mountain Gorillas who are seen eating leaves and fruit on the bank by the river. The adolescent male's battle each other for females, the younger ones play as their mothers and fathers groom each other as their leader, a large and scared male watches his tribe whilst eating some bamboo growing by the water's edge.
"Yet jungle the jungle folk say the wisest of them all are the Mangani, they live in closely knit tribes who enjoy each other's company, they travel and forage close to their tribe with a strict regard for family and tribal laws, sometimes a young male will battle the already leader for dominance over the tribe and they may battle until one cannot fight anymore and then the tribe is theirs, yet sometimes they can quarrel amongst themselves until one backs down".
As the Gorillas continue to enjoy each other's company a young Gorilla, the child of the leader goes down to the river and splashes the water but it can be a very bad thing to get careless at the water's edge as what the poor infant is about to meet its end in the jaws of a killer.
In the other side of the river a large Nile Crocodile is seen basking on the bank when it sees the young Gorilla playing by the water, it crawls into the water and then swims unseen towards the young Gorilla on the bank its eyes are complete focused on it.
"Yet out of all the jungle folk there is one who knows no law and that is the barrel bellied killer, the Crocodile, with his chin in the shallows and lust in his cold heart hoping to drag down to the depths all those who wander along his river bank".
As the young Gorilla continues to play with the water his father, the leader realizes that something is wrong and hoots for the child to come away from the water's edge, the young Gorilla hears his father's hoots of warning but too late. Suddenly the water explodes and the crocodile erupts from the deeps and snatches the young Gorilla in its mouth and flings it into the water and then going after it, the leader hoots and roars in anguish at what's just happened his mate, the young Gorillas mother tries to go after the crocodile but he holds her back as the Gorillas and all other primates cannot swim, the female then calms down and starts to cry as the rest of the tribe watch on in sadness except for one large and scarred individual.
The crocodile is seen just finish eating the unfortunate young Gorilla, however it hears an angry bellow and splashing as a herd of Hippopotamus enter the water, the crocodile knowing better to take on a herd of the most dangerous animals in Africa quickly swims away in defeat as the Hippos lounge in the cool water.
"Yet despite being around since the age of the mighty dinosaurs, even the crocodile would not dare to take on the tribe of Duro the Hippopotamus, they are the true lords of the waters of Africa though they may look like eaters of flesh they are in fact eaters of grass".
As the Hippos lounge in the water and graze on the underwater vegetation with their new-born calves a loud roar is heard from the river bank and a large scared Lioness emerge from the trees to take a drink from the river.
"And now behold Ed the villains of my tale the killers, the man-eaters, the assassins who first bought murder to the jungle clans Numa the Lion and his savage mate Sabor the Lioness, shunned and feared by all including the other lions, it is said that when they first killed, when they were Cain and Lady Macbeth to some poor Duncan and Abel of the glades and ran from the scene of their crime the trees, creepers and the spirits of Lions of the past scratched their hides and marked them with the sign of Cain and Macbeth, these evil lions must have their minions, the dish lickers of their kills, their bullies for attendants".
A Spotted Hyena is gorging itself on the corpse of a dead Zebra presumably killed by either Numa or Sabor whilst a Vulture watches from the trees watching for the Hyena to leave so that it can help itself to whatever scraps the Hyena leaves behind.
"Dango the Hyena is the most pitiful, wrenched and despised creature in all of the jungle, hated by all of its inhabitants even by other Hyenas and the most repulsed of all the jungle folk is the Vulture, both of whom are hungry for scraps of their murderous master and mistress's feasts".
Next a large African Rock Python is seen coiled around the branch of a tree, it slowly raises its head and sees a lone Bongo feeding on some berries nearby, the Python then starts to slither down towards the ground and towards the unsuspecting Bongo.
"But my tale is not only about heroes and villains for let me tell you Ed of Histah the great Python, the wise and old snake that has seen many changes in the jungle over the years and the one whose people taught mother Eve the menus of treachery and sin".
The scene of the jungle pans over the tops of the trees until it reached the overgrown ruins of an ancient city, statues of Elephants, Lions and Warriors. Temples and buildings in ruins and being chocked by forest vegetation
"What is the story of life but man's war with nature, in the jungle itself many a ruined city lies forgotten in the pages of time, where once a thousand war chariots proclaimed the might off a great and powerful king to whom all men bowed their heads who built this once great city of an great and powerful Empire now faded into the pages of history"
In and around the ruins of the city lots and lots of Monkeys and Chimpanzees play and hide as their hoots ring out through the ancient abandoned ruins.
"The mighty then left such a palace to his kin the tribe of Manu the Monkey and the Chimpanzees, the outcasts of the jungle. They claim themselves to be a cut a above the jungle folk due to their relation to man".
Next the village of an African Tribe is seen. The people who live in it are dressed in a variety of wondrous clothing, the men wear loincloths, tunics and wear magnificent headdresses, whilst the women wear skirts and go either topless or cover their breasts with necklaces whilst the children wear dresses and loincloths, their weapons include shields and spears.
"And yes there are humans in the jungle, but just a few tribes scattered all over the place including the fabled Waziri tribe, the best warrior tribe in the whole of Africa".
The scene then changes back to Edgar and Archimedes as Archimedes pours the tea for them to drink into some cups and putting in some sugar and milk and getting out some biscuits and then bringing the lot over to table on a tray.
"Now that you've told me of the jungle and its inhabitant's can you please now tell me of your daughter Jane and her Wildman lover Tarzan" Ed asked eagerly waiting to hear the story.
Archimedes looked at Ed and smiled "would you now Ed"?
"Yes I would" said Edgar with keen interest.
Archimedes just smiled and sat back down again "well now you can hear the story now since you said please".
Ed edged over eagerly waiting for Archimedes story to begin "so when did all this start".
Archimedes just thought for a moment before speaking again, "did you ever hear about Lord John Greystoke and Lady Alice".
"Yes didn't they disappear back in about 1888" said Edgar with interest.
Archimedes then took another deep breath and began to tell his story "it all began the year Lord John and his received a letter from the Colonial Office in London back in February 16th 1888".