Another One (Tarzan)

Chapter One

Put your faith in what you most believe in...

Kala trekked across the jungle with the rest of the troop, head low. A clear sign of a mother in morning. But she was suddenly broken out of her thoughts with a cry. One that she had never heard before in her life. Her still fresh maternal instincts kicked in, she had to find the source.

She ran across the jungle, until the source of a cry came from a tree. But something had happened to this tree that Kala had never seen before. It was as if something took other parts of trees and stuck them together to modify the way the tree looked, almost creating some sort of wooden cave in the sky.

The ape slowly peeked her head in. The area, even she could tell, was in disarray, as if a storm had come in and wrecked havoc. And she smelled the stench of death.

She slowly crept in, warily eyeing all of the strange objects that she had never seen before. The wind whistled in the distance, and the sounds of the jungle seemed to be lost inside.

Kala looked over to where the overpowering stench came from, and saw two strange creatures in the corner, clearly mauled to death. They were oddly colored, and unlike any ape she had known. Her eyes soon reached the bloody paw prints that were left in the floor, which made her panic. She knew Sabor had been there, and done her work disposing of these innocent lives.

She was about to flee, when the cry sounded once more, seeming to come from the end of the room. Curiosity came to the better of Kala, so she crept towards the source of the sound, eventually coming across some sort of crib, with a blue blanket covering some sort of struggling mass, the size of a watermelon. Kala reached a hand forward, and slowly pulled the cloth away, to reveal two creatures, tossing their limbs about.

They seemed to be juvenile versions of the corpses in the corner, with pink chubby skin. As soon as Kala saw them, they seemed to cease their fussing and just stare at this foreign entity that had just found them.

At this point, her defenses were down, so Kala reached down a sniffed their hairless bodies, noting how one was male and one female, the male having darker hair, only on the top of his head. Her inspection caused the female to let out a sneeze, startling Kala for a brief moment and backing her head away.

This had triggered some sort of humor to the twin babies, and they started giggling, and flailing their arms towards Kala. Glancing around one more time, the large ape picked the two of them up, holding the male by his leg, and the female gingerly placed on her lap. She promptly started the normal act of blowing bubbles with her own saliva. As babies do.

Kala inspected the white fabric that was strangely wrapped around the two, by peeling part of it back on the male, and giving a small sniff. She instantly regretted that decision.

She pulled him out to a normal distance, and noticed both twins were gazing at her with wide eyes, fascinated. Kala's heart melted, as she saw they put their tiny hands on her chest. While they were hairless and pink, they were not unlike her own.

She held the small creatures in her arms, just as she had done with her own child, when he was still alive. She knew what she had to do.