Chapter 6
"A Flower Blooms Before Humiliation…Again"
The last thing that Jane remembered was looking for her infant son who was with Naoh when a blast coming from a bomb knocked her out cold. When she opened her eyes, Jane found herself tied up to a chair and saw what appeared to be two young men guarding the entrance to the tent Jane now found herself in. Just then, a large man with a brown moustache and wearing a German uniform stepped into the tent.
"Leave us alone and return when I summon you," he barked and the two soldiers saluted their superior and left. Jane struggled to get herself of her bonds when the man began to eyeball Jane carefully.
"Where am I?" cried Jane. "Where's my son?"
"Your son is safe with us," said the German commandeer, rubbing his fingers through Jane's hair, causing the elegant bun to unravel. "We captured you because we need a couple of pawns to lure the British Army in Africa to this part of the jungle where we could destroy them."
Jane growled menacingly at the man, who only responded with a slap to her face. This caused Jane to wince in pain for a moment, but she was used to being the damsel in distress, so this was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Where are your manners, fraulein?" he hissed. "Show some respect for a military commander."
"I had an encounter with a man similar to you," cried Jane. "He was like you, a dirty man who didn't care for human life."
The commander then looked around the room and started to untie Jane from her bonds. Jane was surprised at this, but she knew that this would only mean one thing: that the man had the intent of undressing her down to her jungle garments in an effort to humiliate her.
"What do you plan on doing to me?" asked Jane, nervously. "I'll give you anything you want, just don't hurt me."
"Oh, I am not going to hurt you, fraulein," he replied, pulling Jane towards. "Why, I am going to have a little fun with you. You see, my men and I have plans to make this part of jungle a part of German rule. You English and your French friends have occupied this part of the jungle for far too long already."
He then spat in Jane's face, which caused her to flinch in surprise. At that moment, Jane heard a loud scream from another tent and Jane could tell that it was from Naoh.
"Something else I forgot to mention," continued the man, still holding his grip on Jane. "We found ourselves a little village that we think is in our way and we would like to send a message to its people that they too, shall leave. The age of English and French rule is over and the age of the German Empire will soon begin."
He then motioned for the two guards that had been guarding Jane to come back into the tent. A look of lust was on their faces as the man stepped away and the two guards surrounded Jane, but not before being joined by two other men who also surrounded them.
"It's time to send our message to the English and French," said the man, who raised his arm. "Strip her naked and then we can start sending our message."
At that moment, the men began to grab Jane and push her around like a ragdoll and it was only after the first rotation did the men start to pull at her blue dress. The first piece to go was one of her sleeves and then the men began to pull at her bodice, pulling off the collar and the gold broach that was the neck. The men continued pulling at Jane's top for a few more moments until her corset was exposed, then they began pulling at Jane's skirt, ripping away the dark blue peplum and eventually began pulling at the light blue skirt.
"Please, stop," cried Jane, but the men were not going to listen as they ripped away huge pieces of her light blue skirt before moving on to her petticoat, ripping off piece by piece as they pushed Jane to the ground and started pulling off her boots and stockings. "What did I ever do to you?"
"Nothing, fraulein," laughed the man, as his men began tugging at Jane's corset, trying to rip it off. "But, this is what happens when people stand in our way."
Jane felt a sudden draft as one of the men pulled on her bloomers, roughly pulling them off Jane's body and exposing her bottom jungle garments. When the man with a knife had trouble cutting off Jane's corset, he stepped forward and roughly pulled Jane to her feet.
"You schweinhund," said the man, snatching the knife from his soldiers' hands. "This is how you do it."
And he roughly sliced the knife down the back of Jane's corset, leaving the delicate Englishwoman in her jungle garments. The memories of humiliations were starting to come back and knew that this was the end when she saw the soldiers began to undo their trousers.
"There, you see?" asked the man, mockingly. "That's how you rip off a woman's corset."
Jane began to shiver with fear as the men began to surround her like vultures to a carcass. She also saw the commander loading what appeared to be his gun with bullets.
"Now, have your fun and then we can send out our message," he ordered and the four men were about to carry out their orders when they heard an all too familiar sound.
"Tarzan!" she cried and the commander walked out of the tent and saw Tarzan and several Wazari soldiers running towards the camp, but they weren't alone as the sounds of gunfire were heard.
"This isn't over," growled the commander to Jane as he and the young soldiers charged outside to counter this threat that was against them, firing their weapons as Tarzan and Basuli began searching for their wives. Finally, Basuli managed to find his wife in another one of the tents along with Korak, who was in small cage.
"Naoh, are you all right?" he asked, picking her up to her feet. Naoh nodded slightly as she struggled to get up. Almost as quickly before he went in, Basuli grabbed his wife and godchild and dashed out of the tent.
Meanwhile, Tarzan went into the tent after fighting off some soldiers and found his wife, standing in her jungle garments while pieces of her nice blue dress were scattered all over the ground. Feeling liberated, Jane ran over to Tarzan and hugged him before the two lovers dashed out of the tent.
"They're getting away," he yelled to his soldiers. "Stop them!"
The soldiers fired their guns and at that moment, several British and French soldiers came through the bushes and tackled the German soldiers to the ground. The commander growled as he saw his chance of having fun and spreading a message get away.
"You can run with your jungle man and his friends, you cowardly Englishwoman!" he screamed as he fought off several more soldiers. "But you can't hide, you hear me, fraulein? You can't hide!"
Just then, he felt the butt of a gun and fell down to the ground while Jane and Tarzan along with their son and their friends raced out of danger and back to the Wazari village.