Part 2: The Transformation
Chapter 17
"Becoming a Jungle Woman"
Upon hearing the news that their luggage had been brought ashore and their camp had been set back up, Jane returned to the camp and went back inside her tent to change out of clothes. While the temperature had cooled to an extent, her yellow dress and petticoat were still wet and heavy on her causing her to roast even more. Jane would always be dressed modestly in any kind of weather, but this was something completely different.
"At last," she thought to herself. "I can finally get comfortable."
In her tent, Jane stripped off her dress and undergarment and grabbed her white bodice and red wraparound skirt that she wore when she met the gorillas as well as pull off her hot stockings and confining ankle boots. It was Tarzan's personal favorite outfit of hers next to the yellow dress as her legs were free to being seen by him and her white bodice emphasized her delicate upper body. Curious to find out more about Jane's body, Tarzan crept into the tent while she wasn't looking and saw her yellow dress scattered on the ground and grabbed her white petticoat and smelled it, curious if it had Jane's scent on it. Suddenly, she turned around and screamed upon seeing Tarzan in the tent and he ran out of the tent in fear. Jane stormed towards him and looked down crossly at him.
"Tarzan, where are your manners?" she huffed. "You know better than to be in a person's private area, especially if I am dressing."
Of course, Jane couldn't be ticked off for very long for she knew that Tarzan had never learned anything major about civilization. Besides, he never really worn anything aside from a loincloth and that she could still remember the first time Tarzan crossed personal boundaries when they first met.
"Oh, well," she said. "I guess you didn't know that people need to have privacy when they are dressing, which means that when then need privacy, they cannot be seen by anyone."
Tarzan was still confused, but being a man that was raised in the jungles by gorillas all his life, he couldn't help but feel curious about Jane's body. Most gorillas in the jungles would have their own way of mating and the word 'privacy' was absolutely unheard of.
"Nevertheless," she sighed. "I guess that maybe you probably still don't understand, but that is okay, I will teach you eventually."
Tarzan nodded at this and followed Jane out of the camp and back to the gorilla nests and came across a horrifying site as the gorillas panicked all around them.
"Good heavens," Jane cried as she ran over to her father. "What is going on here? Did something happen while we were gone, Daddy?"
"I don't know," said Archimedes. "One moment we were just settling down for a rest when a loud explosion came out in the distance."
The explosions frightened the gorillas as they were still feared by the recent attack on their nest by Clayton and his men. Tarzan ran over to a tree and climbed up it to reveal what appeared to be a building being built on the edge of a river.
"What is it, Tarzan?" called Jane.
"It's humans," he said. "Come to hurt the gorillas again."
He climbed down and grabbed his spear that was lying beside a tree and with a look of anger in his eyes, Tarzan ran to the scene of the bombing. Upon getting close but hiding in a bush, they all saw a group of men, wearing clothes similar to Clayton's walking around with dynamite in their hands. This made Tarzan cross and wanting to attack them, but Jane held him back.
"Wait, Tarzan!" she whispered. "They may not be here to attack the gorillas like Clayton and his men did. They could all be here for something else."
"All humans who have weapons are a threat to this jungle," said Tarzan. "I must stop them."
Jane wondered if maybe Tarzan was being too overprotective of his jungle territory since he was easy with meeting her and Archimedes. Nevertheless, being someone who had come to admire the gorillas for who they are, Jane was also being very protective, but was not someone who would use violence to protect those who were closest to her unless that the moment calls for it. So, she pulled Tarzan away and they returned to the gorilla nests.
"Jane says that the men who launched those explosions may mean us no harm," said Tarzan. "We must trust her as she is a member of this family."
But, some gorillas chose to disagree with Tarzan as a true Gorilla leader would always put the family first and not anyone or anything else. Now that Jane and Archimedes were in the family, there was a sense of doubt in the air on whether they would both be trusted.
"I don't trust the fact that Jane is in this family, Auntie K," said Terk, Tarzan's ape friend. "Tarzan may love her, but I am not so sure."
"We have to accept Jane for who she is, Terk," replied Kala. "She is going to live with us now and eventually mate with Tarzan."
The thought of Jane mating with her best friend, seemed to not sit well with Terk as she took an enormous gulp and smiled nervously.
"I guess you are right," sighed Terk. "But, Jane needs to prove that she is capable of being in this family or I get my buddy back."
Kala nodded her head in disappointment as Terk watched Jane and Tarzan walk off into the jungles together. To her mind, it would be a matter of time before she would accept Jane for who she was and why Tarzan would love her. Just then, another gunshot was heard and Tarzan immediately grabbed his spear again and raced off to the site of the gunshot with Jane trying to run as fast as she could behind.
But, the two lovers were in for a surprise upon who was ordering the gunshot…
