Once it got dark, they started to show Tarzan everything that he would need to know about being like the human he was born as even though he spent most of his childhood believing he was also an ape, but just different from the others. Jessica remembered how that felt, especially when they had a journey with the tales of a monster called The Zugor who was actually an old ape who lived alone in the Dark Mountain, and where the lessons seeemed to go along well. Tarzan enjoyed the activities, even if it meant sneaking off from Kala, Terk, Tantor, and Kerchak.
And where he even got to spend much more time with Jane than the others. Clayton thought most of this was just a waste of time as they didn't know when the boat would be here to take them back home. Jane was slowly and surely falling in love with Tarzan as he showed her how to survive in the jungle, especially by swinging on vines, and he even got her to see more birds that she was sketching.
"We've wasted all this time," Clayton complained. "The boat could arrive any day. Now ask him straight out."'
Patch came behind Clayton and lifted one of his back hind legs, but Atticus shook his head. Patch soon pouted as he couldn't pee on Clayton.
"Tarzan, will you take us to the gorillas?" Jane asked the feral man as he played with the model solar system. "Do you understand?"
"I... Understand." Tarzan replied softly.
"Good work, Jane." Professor Porter said.
"Well?" Clayton asked Tarzan.
"I can't." Tarzan replied.
"What?!" Clayton and Professor Porter asked.
"Why not, Tarzan?" Jane added.
"Kerchak." Tarzan replied.
"Ooh, right... He doesn't really trust humans." Jessica told them.
The others didn't understand and Jessica then explained to them why they couldn't go and who Kerchak was as Tarzan was on his way back home with the gorillas.
"Well, I have a feeling the boat back to London might be here tomorrow." Emily sighed.
"I have the same feeling, Em." Patrick agreed with his wife.
"Aww!" Darla frowned.
Later that night, Atticus was falling asleep, but he hid a smirk as Tarzan looked at the moving pictures one last time until he came to one of a man giving a woman flowers and decided to do the same for Jane, and where the feral man was gonna go into the jungle to get plenty of wild flowers.
The men had come to take everything away as it was time to go back home just as Tarzan was coming for Jane with the flowers.
"Come here, ya mutt." A man glared at Patch with a carrier for him with a muzzle.
Patch began to growl and bark at the man and wasn't afraid to use his strength on him.
"Easy, pooch, easy!" The man glared.
Patch barked with a glare back as he didn't like how this man was behaving toward him. The man then took out a pill to make Patch take it so he would fall asleep. Patch simply smacked the pill away.
"Get back here, you mongrel!" The man glared.
Patch ran from him and rushed to find his family, and where luckily, he found one of them which was his boy.
"Patch, there you are." Atticus hugged his dog.
"That man was trying to get me in a pet carrier and he was going to put a muzzle on me!" Patch told him.
"He did, did he?" Atticus glared. "Seems like they have no respect for us or our stuff."
"You can say that again." Patch huffed.
"Hey, be careful with that!" Emily chased after one man who had a golden box that she brought for personal reasons. "That's really delicate, it was a gift from my sister! Oh, hello, Tarzan, how are you? STOP! SCOUNDREL!"
Patrick soon helped his wife out of her predicament.
"Oh, hi, Tarzan," Darla greeted the ape man before pointing to Clayton as he was talking to the ship's captain while Jane stood beside him. "Jane's over there."
Tarzan bowed his head with a smile as his way of saying thank you. Darla smiled back, but firmly pouted to the ship hands who seemed rather rude.
"You're the ship's captain," Clayton told the man in charge. "Just tell them you've had engine trouble and give us two more days."
"And be late at every port from here and to London?" The captain replied.
"If we leave now, the trip will be all for nothing." Atticus said as he came over with Patch by his side.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Fudo, but I simply can't do it." The captain told the boy.
Jane sighed in dismay and Jessica gently patted her on the back.
"This is all your fault," Clayton groaned to the girls. "I should've followed my instincts and set traps for the beasts."
"What?!" Jessica glared. "How is this our fault?!"
"Don't you think we're a bit disappointed about the gorillas?" Jane added as she slammed shut her suitcase. "You are absolutely impossible!" she then walked off, accidentally running into Tarzan and his flowers. "Oh, Tarzan! I was so afraid that you wouldn't come in time. The boat's arrived, the boat that's come to take us back home to England."
"And where Jane was wondering if you would like to come back with us." Atticus spoke up.
"Won't you?" Jane smiled hopefully.
Tarzan paused to think about it before smiling back. "Go see England today, come home tomorrow."
"Ooh, I'm afraid that's a tad bit difficult." Jessica said.
"Not come back...?" Tarzan asked as he felt his heart sink in his chest.
"I know it sounds awful, but you belong with us," Jane told the feral man. "With people..."
"Jane must stay here with Tarzan!" Tarzan smiled as he bent down on one knee and showed the flowers to her.
'Well, this is now a hard decision for Jane to make.' Patch thought to himself.
"Jane?" Jessica asked her dear friend.
"No, I can't stay," Jane frowned as she collected her laundry. "Look, I've got... I'm with my father, and..."
"Jane, stay," Tarzan took her hand. "Please..."
"But... I can't." Jane told him before running off in tears.
"If she could just follow her heart." Jessica frowned.
"Women... How typical," Clayton chuckled before he took wine off of a passing man. "Thank you, Jones. Even if you hadn't grown up a savage, you'd be lost. There are no trails of a woman's heart." he then took a glass for himself and gave the other to Tarzan.
'What is he up to?' Patch thought to himself.
"Jane is going." Tarzan frowned sadly.
"Yes, if only she could have spent more time with the gorillas," Clayton sighed. "She's so disappointed... Crushed, really... Sorry, old boy." he then clinked glasses with Tarzan before taking a sip of his own wine.
'Oh, no, he wouldn't.' Patch thought to himself.
"Oh, well, I'd best get Jane's things to the ship." Clayton said to Tarzan.
Tarzan put his wine glass down and hung his head slightly. "Clayton... If Jane sees gorillas, she stays?" he then asked.
"Say, that's why she came, isn't it?" Clayton replied innocently.
'Yep, he would.' Patch thought to himself, now knowing why Clayton did this.
"I'll do it." Tarzan soon gave in.
"Good man!" Clayton patted his arm. "Snipes!"
"Yes, sir?" A man replied.
"Get the boys together," Clayton told him as he handed Jane's luggage. "There's been a change of plans."
"Tarzan, what about Kerchak?" Atticus whispered to the feral man.
"I'll ask Terk for a favor." Tarzan whispered back.
"Perfect." Atticus said.
Tarzan nodded as he decided to go just that. Patch had a sinking feeling that Clayton might have a map with him to make sure he would mark where the gorillas lived.
"I know what you're thinking," Atticus said to Patch. "Because I have the same feeling."
"It's like you're a dog too sometimes." Patch replied.
"I know, right?" Atticus smiled.
"We better keep an eye on Clayton." Patch then said firmly.
"I'm right behind ya, buddy," Atticus agreed with his Dalmatian. "And if he tries to use his gun; I'll tie it into a loop, so then no bullets come out."
"Good, because I hate guns." Patch agreed.
"Who doesn't?" Atticus asked.
Patch and Atticus then smiled to each other.
"DON'T TOUCH THAT! DON'T EVER TOUCH THAT!" Darla glared at one man and she held the copy of The Frog Prince that she grew up with before she moved to Hollywood that her mother used to read to her.
"What is going on here?" Patrick asked.
"They tried to take my Frog Prince book." Darla replied as the book was very important to her.
"It's just a dumb little fairy tale." One man scoffed.
"My Nana gave it to me." Darla frowned.
"Leave her alone, that book is important to her." Patrick told the man.
The man then shrugged and walked away. Darla hugged the book as she felt like it was a security blanket.
"Is your book okay, sweetie?" Emily asked.
"Yes, it's fine..." Darla replied. "They were just gonna throw it in like it was nothing."
"Those men must have no heart." Patrick said.
"They don't, we don't trust them at all." Atticus said, referring to himself and Patch.
"At least we'll get to see the gorillas now." Emily tried to make light of the situation.
"That's right." Patrick said.
After Terk and Tantor distracted Kerchak, Tarzan was leading the others into the jungle to see his gorilla family up close, and where nothing was going to ruin this moment.