Heavenly Chef

What if Komatsu wasn't the Head Chef of Hotel Gourmet but a young prodigy by the name of Lyranne? How will the journey of the Heavenly Kings turn out if their favorite chef was female? One with mysterious origins, and secrets unknown to even her. AU, Pairings up for discussion.

Chapter One- The Gararagator


Author's Note- This is the Re-haul of Heavenly Chef under the same title. Like before this is going to be a fanfiction where an OC replaces Komatsu's place in the story. Request and Suggestion for the story and pairings are welcomed, and if this isn't your cup of tea then you can just hit the back button and read some other fanfiction.

In a meeting room in Hotel Gourmet, three rather important people to the working of the hotel were sitting at a table in one of the ballrooms of the very hotel. First there was Manger Smith, a small , short , round man with a receding hairline and a rather low mustache that was nearly at his lip. Smith wore a nice black suit was a red bow tie. Beside Manger Smith was Head Chef of Hotel Gourmet, Lyranne. A culinary prodigy of 18 years old that graduated from the best school to go to during this age, Nakaume Culinary Academy, and the youngest Head Chef that the establishment had ever appointed, but no less reliable. The third member of the trio at the table was IGO Business Bureau Director, Uumen. He was a rather flamboyant middle aged man with a little bit of stubble and sunglasses.

Uumne was looking over a paper that Lyranne had presented to him just moments ago, a paper that head the suggested menu of the upcoming Gourmet Assembly. He was giving the two tisk of displease the longer he looked at the paper.

"This year's Gourmet Assembly is not only composed of not only the leaders of other countries. But our company's president will be in attendance." Uumen told the two. "This is not some common folk's party at some Gourmet Garden, you know. I want something with more IMPACT! IMPACT you got it? This main dish being the steak of White Haired Cinderella Cattle isn't enough!"

"But Sir! The Cinderella Cattle Steak is the best meat we can get at such short notice. The Assembly is in only a few short days! There's no way to get anything of higher quality." the white haired chef exclaimed.

"Can't you get me some Gararagator for the Assembly?" The Director asked.

At the request Manager Smith nearly fell out of his chair in shock while Chef Lyranne's eyes widen at the request.

"That's capture level five meat. We'll need a hunter for that!" Lyranne said nearly shouting. "We don't even know where one is! Much less have the manpower to take on!"

"Baron Archipelago. I know of a hunter who will be able to get what we need. I do believe you have heard of the Heavenly King Toriko? I do believe he's just outside of town by the Eastern cliffs fishing. Now off you go Lyra-chan! Also go with Toriko-san to get the ingredient so we can have some more information about the species."

The chef just let out a sigh as she started to walk out of the door to find the Heavenly King, who she was half hoping would be disinterested in the job offer. Her sword was with her brother Ren for maintenance. She really didn't have anything to defend herself otherwise.

Some time later Lyranne found herself nearly tripping over herself as she made it uphill to the Eastern Cliffs. She was in her usual day clothes that consisted of vertically striped pants, a belt with three large pouches, a mid drift shirt with a under bust harness, with three arm bands on her right arm, and a leather arm band on her left, her hair was in a braid tossed over her right shoulder.

With where she was going it might be impractical but she found it easy to move in and she knew how to deal with anything that might decided to latch onto her stomach. Once she finally broken through the underbrush she was at the clearing where Toriko was. He appeared to be a very tall muscular man wearing blue shorts and a orange shirt, he had long messy blue hair. Currently he was sitting on a rock with a large fishing rod that appeared to be made out of a solid steel rod with a large iron cable wrapped around it for the line.

"Hello my name is Lyranne and I'm here to offer a job for your skills as a Gourmet Hunter. The IGO is holding a party in a few days, but due to a change in taste we are in need of you assistance to acquire an ingredient." the young woman said to the man in a professional tone to the Heavenly King who was still mostly focused on his fishing.

'Is there really the best guy for the job?' Lyranne thought as she began to think that this Heavenly King was just a scatterbrain or even deaf. She then started thinking about other Hunters who could do the job. Just before she turned around to leave, Toriko then quickly stood up and began to pull on his line and pulled his catch up and throwing it to the ground. With the resulting crash nearly knocking her to ground.

Upon a closer look on what he caught she saw it was a Clawdad. While the level of the beast wasn't impressive it was more that the sheer ease he was able to bring the creature up to the top of the cliffs. Lyranne attempted to be quick to recover her wits only to once again be surprised when a Five Tailed Great Eagle came down from the sky out of nowhere and attempted to snatch up the Clawdad only to be stopped by Toriko who easily shown to have the strength to bring the large bird down, catching the Five Tailed Great Eagle with the Clawdad now.

"Toriko, I'm sure the Gararagator can be caught so long as you are on the job!" Lyranne shouted as she then found herself believing that this hunter could go get the ingredient that was needed. As she said the ingredient's name.

"What! The Gararagator? That's you ingredient?" Toriko asked with a rather predatory look.

"Yes besides being a rather difficult ingredient to find. It's biology is quite the mystery. I've heard that it's difficult for even a tank to take them down. Quite a dangerous beast wouldn't you say." Lyranne said to the hunter.

"That's a top class ingredient. Just a single slice is worth a small fortune. It's marbled throughout with fat, and taste like like deliciously tender high grade King Crab meat combined with the highest quality beef. It's irresistible!" Toriko exclaimed as drool began to drip off his chin.


"Full speed ahead!"

"Thanks alot Tom. Though why are you coming along with me again?" Toriko asked as he was eating a multicolored fish. "And are you sure you want to be coming along while wearing that? And what's with the goggles?"

Lyranne was sitting a few feet away from the Gourmet Hunter in what she had been wearing at the cliff, the only difference were the welding goggles that were now covering her eyes, and was writing in a notebook.

"I believe I told you this already Toriko-san. My boss told me to come with you so I can record some information that I may gather on the Gararagator first hand." Lyranne explained. "As for the goggles. My eyes go through periods of time of sensitivity, so the goggles I wear them to block out most of the light."

"I see. It's good that you understand the risk. You are quite the interesting chef." Toriko said after he had a rather thoughtful look on his face.

"How did you know that I'm a chef? I never said or hinted anything about me being a chef, it is true though. I'm the head chef at Hotel Gourmet. But how did you know that?" Lyranne questioned as Toriko's eyes widened at the mention of her work place.

"The Hotel Gourmet. That's a five star restaurant. Anyway I could tell because of the smell of your hands, handling high grade spices and ingredients all day they tend to get absorbed into your hands." Toriko said as he began to eat on a rather large rice ball. "You got cook to cook for me sometime."

"There goes to show that Toriko's sense of smell is better than any police dog out there!" The brown haired man, Tom explained sounding highly impressed with Toriko's sense of smell, even though it seemed that this wasn't the first time he had witnessed the display.

"Wow. That is highly impressive, such of smell be quite a gift while hunting. Truly worthy of your reputation." Lyranne said more to herself than anyone in particular.

"Just how much are you going to eat?" Lyranne deadpanned as he finished off his giant rice ball and then began on some almond cabbage. "You've been eating for six hours."

"Looks like we're here. The Baron Archipelago."Tom said they were nearing land. As they were passing by the rocks that surrounded the Archipelago they saw a bunch of skinny yellow wide eyed mammal like creatures on top of the rocks.

"Toriko. What are those things?" Lyranne asked while trying to remember what they were herself, the only thing she could remember was that they were harmless.

"Friday Monkeys, they are extremely wary and cowardly beast. So we don't need to worry about any attack from them. But why are they in a place like this? They usually live in caves." Toriko explained but the last part seemed to be said more to himself than her.

The boat then stopped at an opening of the mangrove trees.

"So this is the only entrance to the Archipelago." Lyranne said as Toriko put a row boat in the water and jumped in with Lyranne at his tail.

"Hey Toriko! Make sure Chef Cutie come back in one piece!" Tom shouted to the hunter as he rowed away.

"OI! My name is Lyranne! Use it!" she shouted back at the tanned man. "I can take care of myself!"

"Will do Tom!" Toriko shouted back as he rowed them into the Archipelago.

As Toriko rowed them through the waters of the Archipelago, Lyranne found herself watching the waters that seem to be swarmed with various low level Baron Sharks with the highest Capture Level being a three if she had to take a guess.

"So Lyranne? What did you mean when you said you could take care of yourself? If that is the case why didn't you take the job for your hotel?" Toriko asked as Lyranne just let out a sigh wishing that he didn't ask that.

"That's more of a habit by now. I used to live in Gourmet Town with my Dad and brothers so needless to say they were rather protective of me. Always trying to protect me, always trying to get me keep me out of trouble but they are all idiots with their concern for shows up." Lyranne explained with a fond look on her face. "So Dad taught me how to use a Katana, but took it a few days ago for it's sharpening. He has to take it to the man who made it to sharpen it for some reason."

"Your family is full of hunters are they. But if they are like that relax I'm sure they just had your best interest in mind. If you are the youngest it will be like that. But in the end it's just a sign that they care about you a lot." Toriko said with a laugh.

"That's only two of them to be technical. My dad is a chef and a Gourmet Hunter. My eldest brother, Natsuki he's a hunter as well, then my middle brother Nezumi he's a chef. He works with dad in his restaurant, then my youngest elder brother is Ranmaru and last I heard he's been a Gourmet Reviver. Can't be for sure, I haven't seen him in nearly two years, he's been really busy. Last time i actually saw him was when I graduated from school."

"A family of Chefs, Gourmet Hunters and a Reviver. You have quite an interesting family." Toriko said. "Why not form a combo with your brother?"

"Natsuki has a combo with Nezumi. It was something they had promised to do when they decided to become a hunter and chef. That idiot just loves teasing me saying that my cooking wouldn't be any good for him. But I know he's just pulling my leg." Lyranne said with a shrug, as Toriko gave her a knowing look. "Those bumble head I call brothers love my cooking. They just don't like breaking promises."

With that said they fell into a silence as they headed deeper into the Archipelago.

While walking with Toriko along in the forest Lyranne couldn't help but walk a little bit closer to Toriko as she was beginning to feel rather uneasy about this place.

"This place is starting to give me the creeps." Lyranne said she had one hand on the odd brace like thing on her arm as she soon began to walk ahead of Toriko not seeing that he had stopped.

"Wait!" Toriko yelled at her resulting in her stopping and turning to look back at him.

Lyranne was just about to question him about what was wrong when the sound of something coming out of the bushes. Looking back in front of her she stared with wide eyes at the giant tiger like creature that appeared in front of her, and just before Toriko or the Tiger made a move the tiger fell to it's side seemly unable to move.

"What was that? I didn't even see you move?" Toriko asked the chef a little shell shocked about what the chef just did.

"I failed to to mention I had some tricks up my sleeves well technically my belt." Lyranne said as the motioned to the gauntlet like weapon that now adorn her arm. "It shoots small very thin needles at what I what I point it at, also have a very light coating of a muscle stimulate that stiffens the muscles for at least 10 minutes, on top of being poked at a point in the neck that can force the body into a near death state. But once they are removed it does take time before the animal is able to move around."

"You are full of surprises Lyranne. Never would have thought you would have something like that on you. Though the fact a Baron Tiger was this close to the edge of the Archipelago is worrisome. They are beast that live in the mainland of the island. It was the same with the Friday Monkeys, they usually spend their lives deep in caves and are cowards by nature so are rarely ever seen." Toriko said looking around sounding serious before turning to face her. "The only way for this to be plausible is if they were driven out of their homes by a overwhelming predator."

Lyranne frowned at what Toriko was implying at. The interference in the Baron Isles ecosystem was likely being caused by a Garagator or something equally strong or maybe something stronger. While Toriko was getting pumped about his upcoming fight with the Garagator, Lyranne was hoping and prayer to any god or goddess that would listen that she wouldn't be regretting her life choices.

Soon afterwards they continue to walk but Lyranne soon stopped when she yelled in surprised as something stuck to the back of her neck.

"Gross! A Leech."

"A Barron Leech to be more precise. It's just sucking your blood, nothing to worry about." Toriko said to her like it was nothing.

"Oh, okay so let me get this straight you expect me to let a damn leech suck on my blood? AS IF!" Lyranne replied calmly before yelling the last bit, as she dug in her belt to look for something to get the small blood sucker off.

"Make sure not to pull it, you may open a gaping wound that way." Toriko told the chef (who was only half paying attention to what he said) as he began to look around at the trees for something.

"What is it?" Lyranne questioned to herself as Toriko squeezed the juice out of some leaves resulting in the small bloodsucker to detach itself from her arm and left a shallow red mark on the back of her neck.

"Thank you Toriko." Lyranne said with a small bow to the hunter unaware of the light blush that was decorating his face, "So the leaves her have large salt content."

"Yeah the Mangrove here absorb high levels of salt water, so the leaves are something the leeches, like any can't stand it." Toriko explained while Lyranne bandaged her wound

"So Toriko you think that the Garagator is responsible for the Isle's other beast being so out of character behavior?" Lyranne asked with a neutral face.

"There's not doubt about it, the Garagator is responsible. Heh, It's been awhile since I had to use the good silver, Fork and Knife." Toriko said sounding rather confident about what to come though she really didn't know what the hunter meant by fork and knife.


"Lets eat!" Toriko said while he picked up a serpent frog from the fire and began to eat it. "Tasty right?"

"Quite, but don't you think it's a bit quite?" Lyranne question as she looked around her as she ate. Her and Toriko were camped right by the river and there was not an animal in sight, she couldn't even hear any animals around. "We must be nearing the Garagator if not already in it's habitat. There are barely anything around her and it frankly it's getting really creepy"

"That's probably because all the creatures around here have already been eaten." Toriko replied with no problem.

"What?"

"We don't how big it's appetite is, but it looks like that it could pretty much eat anything and everything on the Baron Archipelago." Toriko said as he saw a spider's web but no spiders were in sight.

"So that would mean every creature's life and way of life is in danger. Lyranne said as she was checking the the bandage on her shoulder. "By the way I'm still bleeding where the leech bit me. Is that bad or something?"

"That's because leeches secrete a substance called Houdini when prevents blood from clotting, but it'll stop bleeding eventually" Toriko informed her.

"And just when is eventually?" Lyranne shouted at the man making him laugh, only to stop at the sound of a crash or something big falling, which due to the ground shaking she only guess how close it was.

It has caused the two to stand up to be prepare for whatever had caused it. Just moments after the tremors stopped a giant serpent like creature shot out from the water.

"A swamp snake." Toriko said as the serpent suddenly collapsed right next to Lyranne who was frozen with surprise from the just how close she could have been squashed like a bug.

"What's with this wound?" Toriko said causing Lyranne to snap out of her shock haze and look at the park of the Swamp Snake he was inspecting, which was a giant bite out of the side of the large serpent. "It was killed by one bite."

"There's no way that this could have been down by a Level five Garagator. The Swamp Snake and Garagator are the same capture level." Lyranne said feeling like she was about to have a melt down.

"Yeah, but look at this jaw size, it's at least twice the size of average Garagator." Toriko stated. "But the question now is how did it get to the swamp snake? They are extremely elusive creatures, meaning that they are hard to find much less track"

Toriko's eyes then widen at something on the creature's skin. "You see those?"

Looking where Toriko was pointing Lyranne's eyes widen at what was on the creature's skin as the pieces were coming together"Those are Baron Leeches!"

"It follows it's prey by the smell of the blood sucked out by the leeches" Toriko said as the swamp snake was dragged back into the water and moments later their target burst forward from the river as Toriko turned to her.

"Speaking of which, you were bitten by a Baron Leach earlier. So that would mean ever since we were on the Archipelago We had also been targets" Toriko said as the gator drew closer. "Isn't that right Garagator"

As Toriko turned fully around to face the beast it let out a huge roar, which had no effect on Toriko but for Lyranne the sheer force of the roar pushed her back all the way to a tree.

"There is no way this is a level 5 Garagator, I would peg this on about three hundred years which should make it close to about level 8." Toriko said sounding rather eager. " Three hundred years, just how much tastier is that matured meat of yours."

"Toriko-san! I really don't think this is the time to think about how tasty it is!" Lyranne shouted in exasperation.

"You may help me decide something." Toriko said as he faced off against the Garagator. "to ass to my Full Course Menu!"

The Garagator then roared as it headed for Toriko who was quick to evade it's charge but wasn't quick enough to stop the Baron Leeches from clinging to his arm. The gator then swung its tail towards Toriko which he quickly dodged and then grabbed the tail of the beast and swung it back. The Gararagator then attempted to lunge for Toriko but missed which resulted in a dust cloud to form before it tried tried to quickly bite at Toriko but the Hunter was evading its powerful jaws with ease. Toriko then pulled his arm back and delivered a firm punch to the Gator's jaw sending the large beast back. The beast then quickly swung its tail at Toriko sending him through several trees.

"Toriko-san!" Lyranne shouted in worry, as the Hunter stood up.

"He drawn to the smell of blood and then he attacks everywhere" Toriko examined as he brushed the leeches off his arm. "It's not going to be a good idea to draw this fight out any longer"

"The Garagator, Those super sharp fangs and not to mention your steel hard scales." Toriko said as he looked at the six legged reptile beast, "and that jaw probably has three tons of power with them, an appropriate look for the King of the Baron Archipelago"

The reptilian beast just roared in response.

"I offer my respect as I wield the most sacred tools humanity has ever known" Toriko said as a gigantic red demon appeared behind the hunter and was holding a fork and knife.

"A demon." Lyranne said in amazement.

"I give humble thanks to the vast blessings this world provides. Now Lets eat" Toriko said as he put his hands together as the red aura surrounding him began to glow even brighter.

The Gararagator roared yet again and charged head on towards Toriko.

"FORK" he yelled as he jabbed his left hand at the beast's underbelly.

"KNIFE" was what the blue haired hunter yelled as he brought down his right hand on the beast's head resulting in the beast to go flying.

"Thank you for this great feast." Toriko said at the gator landed behind him dead.

"Amazing. So This is the power of Toriko, one of the four Heavenly kings."Lyranne said, while at a distance a small robot was flying going unnoticed by the two of them.

"Should we really be eating the food for the party?" Lyranne asked as she roasting the Gararagator over a fire.

"Relax it's not like we could carry the whole thing back with us" Toriko reassured her as he gestured to the Gararagator Meat that was circling them.

"I guess you're right." she said while eyeing the giant pieces of meat.

"Check it out! The Marbled fat is sparkling!" Toriko said sounding like a kid in a candy store as he drooled over a piece of meat he had in his hand.

"It's just like the stars." Lyranne commented.

"Let's Eat!" Toriko then proceeded to gobble down an entire piece of meat, and got stars in his eye from the taste. " It's incredible! After just one bite of this tender meat It just melts in your mouth. It's a flood of favor! Here try some it's amazing." Toriko offered to the chef.

"Okay, Itadakimasu!" Lyranne said before she ate the piece given to her. "The texture of the meat, and the fat. It's almost like it's melting in my mouth"

The chef was pretty much singing as she ate the meat, before she snapped out of it as she had an idea.

"Wait, if we stone grill it this way, I'm sure the taste will increase!" Lyranne said as she place a slab of meat on a rock close to fire. "Cook it this way and the juices will be trapped inside"

Once she flipped it and let it finished cooking she cut the slice in half and gave one to Toriko.

"The is crisp and fragrant!" Toriko said

"The inside trap the juices perfectly!" Lyranne exclaimed

"YUUM!" The two shouted

"So tell me why someone like you who can cook as good as you come to a place as dangerous as the Baron Archipelago?" Toriko asked

"I actually have two reasons for this. My first is becuase have a dream to make it into the top 100 chefs of the world. I believe that I need to see my ingredients in their truest form to really know how to prepare them at to their fullest potential. That became even truer when I first saw you hunt at that cliff, so I came here even though I knew that their was a chance that I could get hurt or worse Killed. There are just somethings worth the risk, like for filling a dream." Lyranne explained with a passion that caused the hunter to grin at the chef. "Second would just be a bit of teasing my brother and father at my part. They would tear the world apart if they knew I was here without them.

"When we eat delicious things, power flows through your whole body. That's because when you cook and eat something means that you are receiving it's power of it's life. This is why we give thanks"Toriko said

Toriko-san, what's your dream?" Lyranne asked

"My dream is to complete my Full course menu of Life"

"Full Course Menu of Life?" she repeated "I would have thought with how many ingredients that you have discovered you haven't completed your full course.

"Yeah" he started "you start with hoes-d'oeuvre, then soup, a fish dish, a meat dish, a main dish, a salad, a dessert, and a drink. I've actually only decided on one of them, , right now my menu is full of nothing but blanks. But someday I'm sure I'll complete it. There are still plenty of delicious things in this world that no one knows about. And those delicious things, all with different lives,and I want to meet every single one of them."

"You're full course" Lyranne repeated with a smile on her face, "Toriko-san, Next time you go on a hunt would it be possible if I could come along with you.?"

"Do what you want." Toriko replied without even looking at her. " There's no time like the present."

"And anytime afterward is the wrong time, right?" Lyranne laughed with a large smile on her face.

"Come on keep cooking." Toriko said as they got back to eating the Gararagator.

"Sure thing Toriko-san"

"It's awesome! Once you start eating you can't stop!" Toriko yelled as he ate.

"Yes, you're right It's delicious!" Lyranne said as she continued to cook.

"Come one fry it up faster!"

"Sure thing! Leave it to me!"


Lyranne paled at the sight before her, the Skeleton of the Garagator laying around her and Toriko with no meat left.

"You shouldn't have eaten it all Toriko-san!" Lyranne yelled at Toriko who was laying on the ground on his back with his stomach swollen like a blimp.

"Listen Kid, Never waste food. That's one of my cardinal rules" Toriko said in a real serious voice before his face turned into a jokester grin. "Aw, Man I'm stuffed!"

"I told you I needed the Garagator for the party. What am going to tell my boss?" Lyranne cried.

"Tell them the truth. It was delicious!"

"What good is that going to do?" the black haired woman yelled at the hunter. "Forget about being one of the top chefs, This is going to get me fired!"

"It sure was delicious, but not quite good enough to be on my Full Course" Toriko said as he patted his stomach.

"So after all we're ending on a downer!?"