Tarzan in the Heart of Darkness by Walter Donway

Author:Walter Donway [Donway, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781719400190
Google: vBmjtwEACAAJ
Amazon: B07D6MC3GN
Goodreads: 40191766
Publisher: Romantic Revolution Books
Published: 2018-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

To the Death

Tarzan was moving before he turned his head to take in the scene. So, too, was N’Kimba. When they did look, they saw Kakenya, a spear in one hand, a flaming firebrand in the other, jabbing at the snarling, enraged faces of two lionesses. They heard Elena scream.

The Maasai are legendary for fighting full-grown lions, using only their heavy spear with its elongated, razor-sharp steel head. Upon conquering his first lion, the Maasai boy receives a second name in recognition of slaying Simba with a spear.

That would not avail him, or Tarzan, if Sabor’s dozen or more sisters came bounding into the clearing to join the hunt. On shore, Tarzan scooped up his father’s knife, his only weapon. Then, as he charged, his voiced a roar and rising scream that was the challenge cry of the bull ape. Tarzan’s presence, the baffling cry from this human, and the fire that faced them in Kakenya’s hand, seemed, for a few moments, to alarm the lionesses.

With a last snarl, one twisted about and bounded into the brush. Kakenya seized this moment of advantage, hurling the firebrand directly into the face of the remaining lioness, and, in the same second, throwing his arm far back to drive the spear forward into Sabor’s neck. Without its steel head, which Kakenya could not make in the jungle, the spear was less deadly, but its sharpened and fire-hardened point lodged just when the lioness’s throat met her chest. She raised up in fury and pain. It was then that N’Kimba, who had reached her bow, shot a poisoned arrow into the lioness’s left side just behind her shoulder. As the arrow pierced the lioness’s heart, Sabor screamed and rolled over.

Tarzan knew that at best they had won a few minutes. The screams of the lionesses, the smell of blood, would draw the others, who, by now, could number two dozen.

N’Kimba, Kakenya, and Hasana were hurrying toward the safety of the trees, Kakenya carrying his spear, N’Kimba her precious poisoned arrows. But Tarzan, heard Elena’s scream and her pleas for help. She had gotten a thoroughly panicked Charles to the shore and was standing beside him, crying for help.

Charles was staggering to where his rifle lay. His left wrist dangled uselessly from his arm, so he picked up the gun with his right hand.

Tarzan, still naked, took Elena’s arm and pulled her toward the trees. She held herself back, calling to Charles. The ape man cast one glance at his erstwhile attacker and waved for him to follow. Already, Tarzan heard all around the clearing the roars and coughs of Sabor. The beasts would be cautious moving to the clearing; when they saw the puny humans, they would charge.

They had only seconds. Tarzan lifted the still dripping body of Elena and tossed her over his shoulder. He ran for the trees, where N’Kimba and Kakenya were boosting Hasana into the lower branches.

Three things, then, happened virtually simultaneously.

Elena screamed, “Charles! No!”

Tarzan, as he ran, turned to see Charles’s rifle lifted and aimed at him.

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