Transition Plan Chapter 34 - First Homecoming Part 21 - Reunion
In the morning, the Destiny approached the shore of the homeland of the Mangani. Tarzan and Jane could hardly contain their excitement because the land now belonged to them, and especially since the learned from the Nigerians that their gorilla family had a honorable and respected name: the Mangani. It was a beautiful name for their people. They were within a few hours of being home with their jungle family. The crew had never seen the couple so excited. Even knowing Tarzan's story of being raised in the jungle, and understanding that Jane gave up her easy life of nobility to be here with him, the sailors could barely comprehend their intentional desire to live completely alone in the midst of a land full of wild, dangerous animals - most of whom were their friends - with no comforts of English life. But they greatly respected the couple, and took care of their needs as best they could. If anyone could live successfully in the jungle, the sailors were convinced it was these two.
After bidding d'Arnot goodbye for the month they'd be separated until the final part of their plan culminated, they departed the Destiny. The flotilla going ashore was composed of several rowboats, carrying Tarzan and Jane, a number of sailors, and the scant luggage they brought with them. The sailors brought their belongings ashore and helped put everything safely in their treehouse. The men were amazed by the hidden home in the trees Tarzan's father had devised from ship parts that kept them safe from harm for awhile, but were sad to learn he and Countess Alice had met their end there. The crew was glad that the new Count and Countess had a refuge they could use when they wanted a taste of civilization. Tarzan and Jane were relieved that the treehouse remained undiscovered and unharmed.
They parted company with the Destiny's sailors until the freighter would arrive in about four weeks for a final confrontation with the oil explorers. The crew of the arriving freighter would send off a signal for everyone to gather for the final confrontation. The oil explorers would think it was a signal for the next load of drilling equipment to be unloaded, for more men to augment replace the workforce, and for those who were finished, their ride back home to England. And as had been rumored by those close to Cedric, prostitutes to take care of the men's needs.
For a few precious days it would be Tarzan and Jane's time to get totally reconnected to their gorilla family, before gathering a united army of their animal friends and the sailors and rid themselves forever of the oil explorers. Alone together on the treehouse balcony holding hands, they saw the last rowboat hoisted back on the Destiny, and admired the great ship as it turned and headed over the horizon to begin its at-sea wait. Truly alone at last, they embraced each other, surrounded by the long-missed sounds of the jungle, and kissed.
They then took the next much-desired step of their transition back to jungle life – their first homecoming to Africa. Tarzan and Jane stored the last vestige of their stifling hot and confining English apparel in the treehouse, and chose to be completely unclothed like their new Igbo and Oyo human tribal friends and their gorilla family. They did so for comfort and to become even closer to their family by being natural with them all the time, especially after their long absence. It wasn't that much of a change, but it was subtle and important. The gorilla family saw them bathe and make love often, and Jane had gone without the upper piece of her loincloth for months to strengthen her bond with the female gorillas. Tarzan had been naked as a boy. Even loincloths still made them feel too 'human', and for the time being, humanity was something they wanted to totally escape from.
Because of all the violence and treachery directed at them by their human enemies, they were thoroughly disgusted with English society except for their immediate family and friends. Tarzan and Jane were perfectly happy to reject modern civilization's ways for that of the Mangani and their Nigerian neighbors. Withdrawing totally from society and disappearing into the wild without a trace with their animal friends to live like them and look like them was just fine - at least for now, knowing there was still work to be done.
They reached for each other's hands and admired their attractive bodies. They finally felt comfortable in the oppressive heat. Only their wedding rings set them apart from their gorilla family, and they would never give those up. Before they left, the pair danced to the sound of the music box in happiness at being free to live their jungle life together after more than six months in England, and chattered in the gorilla language about all the things they wanted to do with the family. They laughed about her baby bump keeping them further apart than the last time they danced tenderly in the treehouse.
"Get used to this 'problem', husband, it only gets bigger," she giggled.
"I am used to this. And it is no problem at all. I can't get enough of you being pregnant."
"You are so sweet," she said, leaned over her bump, and pecked him on the nose, which was actually getting harder to do, making them laugh more. They danced until the music box ran out.
"Are you ready to go find them?" Tarzan asked eagerly.
She gave him a total look of commitment, "Yes dear, I am. You look so handsome this way. You are truly the Mangani Silverback, Tarzan."
"Well, I'm not really silver yet, but will be soon enough, but I am their leader, and we'll grow old together, Jane dear. And look at you! No one is more naturally beautiful than you. I noticed that when you were dancing with the other women at the Council fire. They were all just… ordinary… compared to you."
She blushed at his praise but was very happy. Feeling more and more bloated in her pregnancy and uncomfortable by the restrictions of the now-stored maternity clothing, every loving compliment from Tarzan about her true appearance boosted her self-confidence.
Her uncovered pregnant body truly showed all her changes, accented only by the bow and arrow slung over her shoulder with her loincloth tied around the quiver. Tarzan loved everything about her, even the beginnings of stretch marks forming on her - a sign to Tarzan of her maternal beauty. His handsome, chiseled frame only had his knife sheath slung around his shoulder with his loincloth used as a strap harness for now. If they accidentally encountered the English or other Europeans and needed modesty, they were prepared. Otherwise, it wouldn't be necessary. They would blend in completely with their new human allies, the Igbo and Oyo, and their gorilla family, and were very happy about that. The Nigerians and their family would be too.
"Do you think Terk and your mother will notice I'm having a baby?" she posed her expanding belly and growing bosom for him like a fashion model.
"Uhh…" he said with a very distracted but pleased look.
"Oh, you… You're completely no help. I'm so big that they may be able to see me from here, Tarzan dear."
"Don't say that. You are always beautiful to me."
"Thank you, dear husband. But you are very prejudiced. One thing for sure, I know how much bigger I am. My loincloth hardly fit me underneath my dress when we visited the tribe."
"And that's a problem?" he smirked. In response, she pinched him playfully and gave him a fake scowl.
He carried her in her arms as they took the vines to their normal nesting grounds. It was hard to keep his eyes off her as they swung. Her changes were fascinating, but she was in fact ten pounds heavier already. Finding ways to hold her without compressing her stomach was getting challenging. Jane was a very sturdy and healthy woman at her pre-pregnancy weight of 120 pounds. The doctor told her she could gain nearly 30 pounds by the time the baby was ready to arrive. Tarzan was excited to help her through every stage of her pregnancy. Both were fully prepared for and wanted their baby's birth to be in the jungle.
They alighted from the long vine swing from the treehouse to the highlands and stood in the midst of the jungle in the usual vicinity of most of their nesting places.
"Now if I was our gorilla family, where would I be after six months?" Jane pondered and looked around.
"I could just call for them," Tarzan suggested.
Jane observed, "Yes, but we don't want the oilmen to know where we are with that call of yours. Besides, we agreed we wanted to surprise them. How about this instead?"
She sang a cape parrot's greeting song. Soon a little yellow and green bird descended on her shoulder and squawked happily.
"Noni!" Jane exclaimed.
The little bird nuzzled Jane's cheek with hers, "I have missed you, friend Jane. Terk told me you went far away to where all the humans live. I am happy now that you have returned."
"I missed you too, little friend," Jane replied and smoothed Noni's feathers, eliciting a happy squawk.
Noticing Jane's pregnant body, Noni chirped excitedly, "Oh! I see are about to have your first brood. I am so happy for you and Tarzan! But I still think it is strange for you humans to have your hatchings inside you all the time until they are born."
Jane soothed her belly, feeling her child flutter again, "Less than six more months, dear Noni. It's not so bad. I feel the baby inside me all the time this way. And I don't have to make and protect a nest."
"Having them inside would be fine for mother birds, too, Jane, if baby birds didn't have such sharp beaks," Noni wryly.
They all laughed.
Becoming more serious, Noni asked, "You called me, Jane. May I help you?"
"Do you know where our family is, Noni, dear? We've been gone a very long time."
"I will in a moment, friend Jane."
Noni warbled loudly, and waited for her fellows to respond. A set of squawks from a long distance away told her everything. Tarzan and Jane remembered this was the way the horses of Greystoke village communicated their horses too. There were many repeated miracles in this world of men and animals.
"This way," Noni called and flew off.
They followed Noni on the vines. They were joined by her mate and her nearly full-grown first nest of chicks. The little parrots all flew around Tarzan and Jane as they swung, fascinated by the humans, who had no fur or feathers or scales like the other animals in the jungle.
Letting Noni's brood follow closely and petting them when she could between swings, Jane noted, "They are all beautiful Noni, and just as nice as you are."
"Thank you Jane. They have been anxious to meet you and Tarzan."
Tarzan and Jane arrived near the family's nesting site with Noni's family close about them. It was in a remote part of the jungle far up the mountain slopes they had been to only a few times. Noni and her entire family alighted on Jane's head, outstretched shoulders and arms, and she giggled at Tarzan's amused smile. She had birds gather on her before, but it was even more special now as she knew all of them, and could talk to them. She coaxed the birds to move to one side of her, freeing an arm, and she grabbed a handful of writhing, juicy bugs from a rotting stump to feed Noni, her mate, and family a reward for their help. They all chirped happily and returned to the high tree canopy above them. Jane had a couple left-over bugs that she offered Tarzan and finished the last one herself.
Tarzan smacked his lips, "You know these are my favorite snack, Jane. It's the little cream-filled kind. Thank you."
"I do remember, love," she grinned, licking her fingers from the one she just finished. It was delicious. Dipped in aphid honey it was even better. Her favorite Italian dessert, cannoli, was a poor second place to this delicacy.
There before them were all the Mangani, engaged in a typical day's activities - mostly napping, lounging, playing, wrestling, grooming, digging into stumps and snacking lazily on insects. Finally hearing Tarzan and Jane's very stealthy approach, their family stopped what they were doing, were startled for a moment, and stared open-jawed at the pair in very happy surprise.
Immediately the the gorillas' faces lit up with joy, and they all started hopping and leaping about at their leader's return. Some swung on vines and jumped on branches joyfully, doing flips and cartwheels to celebrate the return of Tarzan and Jane. Former infants who were now juveniles didn't understand what was happening, but joined in on the celebration by jumping, tumbling, and rolling on the ground. Excited whoops, screeches, and calls of the gorillas greeted the pair as they walked the trail hand-in-hand toward the family's nest, smiling broadly as they saw the others. As they approached, the couple responded back to the family's calls with their own greetings – identical in tone and timber to the others.
Very close now to the family nest, both Tarzan and Jane crouched into gorilla stances, though Jane was more cautious not to strain with her baby. The couple knuckle-walked, bobbed, hopped, and weaved in displays of friendship and familiarity with their ape brethren. The entire troop and their human brother and sister were dancing and sounding out in unison. It was a truly a festive reunion ritual. Other animals turned and stared at the troop. They saw Tarzan and Jane had returned and added to the noisy chorus with their happy 'welcome home' calls to the couple. Word traveled fast everywhere in the jungle that the Lord of the Jungle and his mate were home.
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At the oil exploration site, the men and guards heard a swelling cacophony of animal sounds suddenly peak and wane in unison. It was like a wave travelling through the forest. They had never heard anything like it before.
The oil boss asked, "What in blazes was all that about?"
"I don't know Wallace, but I don't like it," the security chief cocked the trigger of his rifle for any animal attack. He was pretty good at killing the beasts of the jungle.
The oil man agreed, "I hate this place. That freighter can't get here soon enough. I have to get away from this Godforsaken place."
Quentin observed, "What makes you think they'll let you go home Wallace, when we haven't found anything yet?"
The men just shook their heads sadly and endured another interminable day of heat and frustration in the jungle.
…
It was not possible to distinguish between human and gorilla behaviors in the happy frenzy in which the reunited family greeted each other. Jane's father would have been overjoyed seeing the joint mannerisms between all of them and with Tarzan and Jane as contented mates fully re-immersed in their world of gorillas.
Their hearts had ached for this special moment with the gorilla family, and now it was finally happening. A trickle of happy tears trickled down Jane's cheek and she clutched Tarzan's hand and kissed him, and he returned the kiss enthusiastically. The gorillas whooped in excitement at seeing their leaders' affections for each other as strong as ever. They loved seeing them kiss.
The gorilla troop surrounded Tarzan and Jane on all sides and hugged together as a group with them in the center. The young couple looked, sounded, and acted just like their brethren - merely paler, hairless Mangani. The humans' natural freedom was wonderful for the apes to see, as they all embraced. Tarzan and Jane felt the caresses of the soft fur of the apes all over their bodies and the gorillas sensed the smoothness of the humans' warm skin. The musky smell of the gorillas was invigorating to the young couple, more pleasing to them than any European perfumes worn by the English gentry. Jane's singular scent, never tainted by perfume, was the sweetest of all, and Tarzan could always sense her.
The 'experiment' Jane and her father had embarked upon had come to its pinnacle, but it really hadn't been an experiment for a long time. This was merely the continuation of Jane's life in her jungle home with her husband at a new level. A civilized woman had immersed herself totally into a gorilla family and become readily accepted and loved as one of them, and Tarzan had returned to his family that raised him in the wild since he was an infant.
Terk was the first to speak, holding her squirming little girl Jana, and exclaimed, "You're back! Wow! I'd almost forgotten how handsome and beautiful you guys are."
"Thank you, Terk. We are so glad to be back," admitted Jane confidently at Terk's praise in her fluent command of the language of the gorillas.
Tarzan was extremely proud of Jane, seeing her acclimatize again with the family so quickly. Jane was a vision of beauty to him as much naked as in her finest English dresses. As impressive as Jane's ape-mimicking behavior was, even more astonishing was that she matched Terk's look and stance exactly, face to face with the gorilla she considered her best female friend and sister, chattering non stop with each other in their ape language, grooming each other excitedly in their reunion joy, and showing identical body language. Their sisterly smiles for each other were endearing.
Terk looked intensely at Jane, scrutinizing her from top to bottom and pondered, "It is so great to see you both… But something else is different…"
It was a little hard for her to see Jane's belly in her crouch, so with Tarzan's help, Jane stood fully erect and arranged herself, caressing the undercut of her pregnant stomach with one hand, as expectant mothers often did, with a very wide smile of happiness. That elicited another of the baby's flutters. It usually did, knowing his mother's touch more and more each day. Terk and all the others around Jane immediately noticed as she stood among them.
Terk's eyes flashed open, "Oh my gosh! It's finally happened!"
Terk hugged both of them but concentrated on Jane's new appearance, exclaimed loudly, and leaped around her gleefully, shouting and pointing animatedly, "Whoa! Jungle Woman – you are simply glowing! You go, girl! Hey look everyone! Jane's preggers!"
A happy chorus of whoops and calls erupted from the family in Jane's honor as everyone began to realize her condition.
Jane rolled her eyes in amusement. Terk was always so delightfully - but sometimes embarrassingly - blunt about everything, which is why she loved her gorilla sister so much. The collective pleasure of the family for her first pregnancy made Jane very happy. Jane reached out to Terk affectionately with her hands outstretched, and placed the gorilla's hands around her bare belly. The two females, one a mother already, and the other a mother-to-be, exchanged sisterly looks only mothers can know that transcended their species.
Jane was very pleased at the Terk's reaction to her having a baby, and responded, "And you, Terk. A proud mother. Just look how much little Jana has grown since we've been gone."
"She's a handful but Kirok and I love her so. It will be nice to see you holding yours in your arms soon. Jana can be 'big sister' to your baby like I was to Tarzan."
Jane was very pleased with that thought, and nuzzled Jana affectionately as Terk held her. The little girl gorilla smiled back at Jane, grunted and hooted, and climbed into Jane's inviting open arms. Jana investigated very curiously the new, strangely furless, pale-skinned gorillas in their family. She'd been a newborn when they left. Jane's long auburn hair, tan-white color, large bosom, and mostly hairless body fascinated little Jana. So did Tarzan's larger but similar hairless physique with his male attributes, like Jana's father and the other males, only bigger. She climbed all over Jane, ending up on top of her head, playing with her hair and comparing it to Tarzan's hair crouched next to her. He groomed Jana, who enjoyed his gentle touch much like her father Kirok, and she smiled at him.
Since gorillas matured faster than humans, Jana was starting to talk at six months, and her simple words to Terk said it all, "Na-kee apes, Ma-ma."
Jane snickered at all of Jana's candid observation and antics, "Yes we are, little Jana! You're a smart, busy little girl!"
Jane tried to keep wiggly Jana from falling off her head and shoulders as she explored. She was fascinated by Jane's bigger breasts than her mother's, and poked at them to see what would happen. The adults laughed.
"My turn now," Tarzan whispered to Jane, but Terk overheard him.
Terk doubled over in laughter, "Now there's the Tarzan I know!"
Jane's cheeks turned bright red and she scolded him, "Shush, Tarzan!" but winked slyly at him but whispered, "For you, dear, later…"
As the rest of the troop went back to their own business, Terk stood back a few steps with Jana back in her arms, and admired all Jane's changes, smiling, "Gosh, Jane. You're beautiful. For a human, anyway… You women carry your babies differently. You are like… all baby…"
Jane laughed, "I'm only three months along. I'll be a lot bigger yet. Unfortunately… Our babies are pretty large in comparison to our body size. Especially this one."
They both looked at Tarzan accusingly.
"What? What? Hey. It's not my fault," he shrugged.
"Wanna bet?" smirked Terk, noting how tall and muscled Tarzan was in comparison to Jane and everyone else.
Jane mused, "In a word, 'genetics' dear."
"I hate biology," he sighed with a grin.
"I feel like I am as big as an elephant already," Jane lamented.
As always, munching on the grass nearby the family with his mate, Tantor looked up indignantly and snorted, "I beg your pardon! You apes all get pregnant and then all you can ever do is compare your enormous bloated bodies to our svelte elephant physiques. Hmmpf! Elephants are so special that you can't even hardly tell when our mates are pregnant. And neither can predators."
"Thank you dear," Habika, Tantor's mate, praised and caressed him with her trunk, who was showing the subtle signs of her first pregnancy.
They all laughed with Tantor's mate and offered her congratulations too.
Terk wasn't done examining all of Jane's new features, "And, whoa, Jungle Woman, your belly is not the only part of you getting huge," noticing her enlarged bare bosom more closely than before, and remembering her bust being being smaller before they left, though Jane was always larger than the gorilla females, "Both of those things are as big as tropical 'lopes! Tarzan must love that!"
"That kind of happens to human women too, Terk, and Tarzan… he… uh… well…" Jane stuttered, a little awkwardly.
"And yes, Terk. Tarzan does love them bigger," Jonathan interrupted just a little too loudly with a smirk.
Both females had a great laugh, and Jane kissed Tarzan's cheek, making sure she brushed against him and watched him blush.
Terk just rolled her eyes at their affectionate behavior, and scoffed, "Woo-hoo! Hot stuff there, guys! You need to go get a private tree branch, people!"
Tarzan and Jane snickered at each other, realizing how much they missed Terk. She always said what was on her mind. Not like the 'proper' English.
Terk was still very curious about her friend's changing body, "Does anything else happen to you, Jane, that I should know about, now that you have a 'coconut roasting in the campfire'?"
Matter-of-factly, Jane explained, "In the eighth month I grow horns like a kudu, fangs like Naima, and breathe fire to protect my child from predators at birth."
Tarzan just had to turn away and bit his lip hard to keep from completely losing it. Jane winked at him.
Terk's eyes grew very wide, but then she stared at Jane hard imagining her with horns, and exclaimed, "Wow! That's going to be amaz-!" but instantly got a very doubtful scowl on her face, "No, wait. You're just kidding, right?"
Jane started laughing hard with Tarzan, and Terk realized the joke, and faked a scowl. "Hey! No fair! You're the scientist; you know all these things, not me!"
At just at the right time to keep Tarzan from laughing even harder, Kirok came back from foraging and hugged Tarzan in the male-to-male gorilla way. Tarzan's friend congratulated him on the coming baby.
But quickly Kirok tended to family business, "I am so very glad you are back. We have spent all the time you have been gone keeping far away from those oil men."
"It looks like you got along just fine," praised Tarzan.
"Some of us have been sick with the fouled water and putrid smoke from their machines. Some needed many medicine herbs to return to health."
"I am sorry, Kirok."
"It's all right Tarzan. We know to solve the problem of the humans you had to stop them at their home. Fortunately, they were not curious about us or dangerous like your cousin. They keep to themselves and their job, but it seems like they have not found what they are seeking in the ground. They have many guns, and they protect the land they are nested in all the time, Tarzan. They have killed a number of animals for food. There is much fear everywhere in the jungle that more will come. I am not sure how to get rid of them. They have fouled their nest and the land around them terribly."
Tarzan was very upset but knew the time for confrontation was not yet at hand, "We can force them to leave. This land is mine now. I can order them to leave our territory or fight them to leave. It's like when the great cats and hawks define – and defend - where they live in the jungle."
Kirok accepted Tarzan's explanation, "I have never understood how the land of our ancestors can be owned by anyone, but you humans have different ways, and I am glad you understand all that. When can we be free of them?"
"In a few weeks. When the next freighter ship arrives. It will come with many human friends to help us. The bad humans and their noisy, poisonous drilling equipment will be compelled by our friends to go back - never to return. The bad humans are not expecting this – they think their friends are coming to help. But they still may not go home peacefully."
Everyone was happy about them leaving but concerned about violence with humans. They already had a bitter taste of that.
Kala also returned from foraging, dropping her handfuls of fruits and roots to rush to them, "You're back, my dear children! I have missed you so."
She hugged and kissed them both, and they lingered in their family embrace.
Immediately noticing and being excited about Jane's maternal curviness, Kala praised her daughter-in-law, "And just look at you, pretty Jane! A baby on the way! Congratulations! I am so happy for you. You tried so hard for so long. You must be very pleased."
"Thank you Mother. Yes, we are!" the couple said in unison, squeezing each other.
Jane showed off her pregnant stomach to Kala's proud gaze. Jane took her mother in law's hands and placed them gently on her baby bump, and let her feel all around the warm belly holding Kala's grandchild-to-be. Kala smiled in happiness, though there was no noticeable outside movement yet. She knew all about gorilla pregnancies, but had never touched an expectant human mother. Jane's smoothly stretched skin was fascinating to Kala, as were her developing breasts. Kala had tears in her eyes.
"I love you, Mother Kala," Jane said softly with a catch in her voice and moist eyes, giving her gorilla mother-in-law another hug.
"I love you too, Jane dear. You two have made this old gorilla very happy today. I have touched your future. I will be here to deliver your future to your breast when your time comes, daughter Jane."
Jane got misty-eyed at Kala's loving offer of midwife help.
Kala gave her son a mother's concerned look, "I am so glad you took Jane's father's advice to you. You both look so happy now. You are taking care of her well, I hope, son?"
"Of course Mother. I love her. She is my mate. I saw how Kerchak took care of you."
Jane reassured her, "He's the best husband and father-to-be any mate could ever want, Mother. Human or gorilla."
"Such a good boy," she praised and she hugged her son, then asked, "But… where's Porter?"
"Mother, he had to stay back for awhile with the affairs of men. He won't be gone forever," explained Tarzan.
"I miss him so very much. I want him to come back to me," Kala said with sadness.
"I know Mother. I miss him too," said Jane hugging her mother-in-law, "He promised me he'd come later."
The family was so joyous no one knew where to start. Everyone wanted to know what happened to Tarzan and Jane in England, so when the family gathered for their evening meal, there were a million questions and everyone paid rapt attention. They collected and shared an insect and fruit meal together with the others to celebrate their return. Jane herself assembled all the courses for the family from the foraged food all had brought. Tarzan was captivated. Jane was the perfect hostess as much here as in their Castle.
As they consumed their meal, they told their stories. Jane and Tarzan never uttered a single word of English, except when there were no words of translation in Mangani, and groomed many of their friends as they shared their experiences. The family was amazed with the world of men, its homes and castles and cities and inventions, and its intrigue and treachery as well as families' love for one another. The gorillas could not comprehend that some humans, especially family members, could treat other humans so terribly, but they remembered the experience here between Clayton and Tarzan, who were cousins.
The gorillas were most proud to learn the fact that the nearby Nigerians, who Tarzan said would never harm them, gave the family a name of great respect – the Mangani. The family adopted the name instantly, and were humbled that these humans accepted the gorillas' existence as their own tribe and honored their right to roam free from interference.
The meal tasted very good, but nothing was better for Tarzan than being back among the gorillas and surrounded by his family. Jane beamed at her husband's happiness to be back where he grew up. The evening with the family had just barely begun.
As the Nigerian principle Chief had put it, the man-spirit of the Mangani had returned to the jungle.
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Authors Notes: For those of you who have waited patiently for Tarzan and Jane to return to the jungle, I hope you found it worth the wait. I gave you all a double chapter this time. Terk and Tantor, of course, were being… Terk and Tantor. I rewrote this a bit to stay T rated. The next chapter is devoted to the rest of their first day back. I hope everyone caught my direct allusion to Disney's Lion King movie with Tarzan saying Pumba's famous line about the grubs… In the next chapter, Terk has a little fun with their new everyday appearance, however, and of course at Tarzan's expense. She loves her cousin but can't help herself teasing him.