Disclaimer: I do not own Toriko or RWBY. Toriko belongs to Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro and RWBY belongs to Monty Oum as well as Rooster teeth.
"Ren, Ren!" Nora excitedly shouted as she pushed the foliage in her way, her hands waved back and forth to her companion.
She showed Ren what she carried, much to her companion surprise.
It was bacon, handfuls of it. But it was green in colour, yet the smell was intermixed with green vegetable. It was appetizing and he could feel his mouth water slightly.
"Is...is that bacon?" He asked hesitantly with a raised eyebrow, partly his mind wandered as to who would coloured bacon into green of all things.
"Yup! And they taste just as good!" Nora said as she offered one to him. "Try it!"
Ren hesitated for a while, he eyes glanced at the sides before a weird looking bird landed on his shoulder and took a bite instead. He watched the bird before he too sunked his teeth into the bacon.
And good god, it was tasty! The springiness of the meat and taste, combined with the fresh texture of a vegetable. It was a perfect combination of both world.
It was delicious.
"Its tasty." He said with an wide eye expression as he took another bite from it. "Where did you find it?
"I know right! They were growing from the trees! Let me show you!" Nora grabbed Ren hand and pulled him along as she made her way through the forest. The bird that landed on his shoulder was startled from her movement and flapped away.
Ren followed along but kept his eye at the bird, his nose picked a familiar scent when it flew away. It smelled exactly like chocolate milk and its feather had gold color streak at the tip of it. He never seen that type of species, let alone one the bacon leaf that he just ate.
The forest was also much more different when they went through the weird looking cave. Granted, it wasn't a cave so much as a tunnel but he felt a crawling sensation that went over his entire body before he arrived to this...place.
So far, there was no Grimm present. Or perhaps they have yet to appear.
"Look, look!" Nora pointed her finger to a tree, Ren mouth opened in shock as he realized that Nora wasn't exaggerating.
There was plenty of those bacon growing from the tree like leaves, almost naturally. He scrambled to think on how, why and who would be so insane to do that.
His ears picked a sound and he snapped to attention. His weapon flicked out of his wrist and he turned around. Nora followed suit as she had her grenade launcher out and readied.
A rumble and growl echoed as a huge form pushed one of the tree aside, as it stepped into their view. Ren eyes widened as he was taken aback from what he saw.
"W-what?" Ren muttered as he couldn't believed what he was seeing. Nora however smiled massively as she wiped the drool that came from her mouth.
It was a large bull, but it had its entire body was covered in rainbow rice that he would see sprinkled on top of cakes.
He thought it was a cruel prank but he could see that the rice was growing from it. In addition, the strongest scent of dark chocolate flowed from it. More so when the bull seemed quite mad as he saw the two near the bacon tree, its agitation made the scent stronger.
He never realized chocolate scent can be so...rich and fragrant. It made his experience of tasting other chocolate seemed stale in comparison. And this was just the smell.
How would it taste? His mind idly wondered.
"Hey, Ren. Can you smell it?" She calmly said with a grin as she looked at him, the two shared a look with one another.
Ren nodded his head at that, he felt his stomach stirred. His appetite grow as they readied themselves.
"Want to eat it?" Nora smiled mischievously.
Ren clicked his dual pistols as his answer.
Someone once said, that there is a field of wheat that shined brightly as the most polished gold and would grow all year round.
"Let's do it!" Nora shouted as she jumped upwards, Magnhild unfurled to a hammer. She raised it high before bringing it down with a force of a meteor.
That there are high quality meat that would sparkled like the greatest jewel in the world and a phantasmal taste.
The bull snorted and charged head on, accepting the interlopers challenge. It horns reared and aimed straight for Nora.
A waterfall of clear vodka that look no different that the clearest and purest of water, that one can drink their fill and never finish it.
The two met head on, it created a force that shook the very forest itself. A spectacle of nature's most primal fight. Eat or be eaten.
This is the Gourment age, where new and undiscovered taste still lie out there. Waiting to be discovered!
"And so! We did battle with that rainbow rice bull!" Nora emphasized as she mimed the action of fighting and added sound effect in each of her movement. "And pow! It went down like a cake to the floor!"
"It charged and accidentally slammed into a few trees." Ren succinctly added to the story to help his other companions that sat around the campfire understand.
Eight pairs of eyes shifted to one another, disbelieved, humored and amused.
"...Okay, so this cow-" Jaune started.
"Bull."
"This bull covered in sprinkles that also smelled like chocolate ran into a tree."
"A few trees." Ren extrapolated. "It tore the first and second tree before it slammed into the third."
"To which you two then proceed to eat it all up." Jaune slowly finished to which Nora nodded proudly. "I think i need a moment."
"Well, that is quite the tale." Pyrrha said, unsure of the authenticity but kept her smile up. It was one of the more intriguing tale so far.
"I am still trying to imagine that really, you sure that someone didn't coat it?" Yang said with disbelief, she knew Nora storytelling can at times be exaggerated but this seems down right bizarre.
"Nope!" Nora smiled at that as she held both hands together and dreamily remembered the taste. "And it was sooo good!"
"The meat tasted like dark chocolate, but certain parts like the tenderloins and fillet tasted like chocolate milk as well. The rice coating added flavor to it." Ren closed his eyes too before he shook his head in regret. "It was extremely unhealthy, delicious it may be."
Weiss and Blake shared a look with one another, if Ren is saying that then it must be true. But still, chocolate bull and bacon that grew on trees?
"Oh, oh! What about cookies! Were there any?" Ruby excitedly said with glee, paying rapt attention to the their tale the whole time. More so when she heard the bull description. "Was there a cookie tree?!"
"How about chocolate banana tree?" Sun added in with interest. At least it relieved the boredom.
"I wouldn't be surprised if those grew in the wild." Neptune replied in good humored.
"Hey, least that way i pick as many as i want."
"Hah, saddle up then! For this is just the appetizer." Nora waved her hands dramatically as she stood back up. " Afterwards-"
"Look, this tree is leaking honey!" Nora said as she explored the forest. Eager to see what else weird creatures that lied here.
Ren took a look at the burgeoning tree, it was indeed leaking honey profusely. The bark was coated so thickly that it created a glossy sheen over the tree.
He wondered, just what exactly is causing these unnatural things? Nothing make sense at all, almost like if they're in a different world altogether.
Briefly, his mind wandered around and recalled old fairy tales of delightful world but having a sinister dark to it.
Perhaps they shouldn't stay here for long.
"Nora, let's go back." Ren firmly said, much to her disappointment as she was about to use her finger to take a taste of the honey.
When he turned around, he heard buzzing sounds. This alerted him and the two immediately drew their weapons.
The buzzing, far at first, slowly got louder and closer. Ren moved backwards in the opposite direction of where the noise came, a gestured followed by nora.
Not too soon as hordes of bees the size of a small cat flew in their sight. The buzzing and snapping of their mandibles can be heard as they swarmed to the tree, ignoring the two as they focused on the honey instead.
Ren looked at it with fascination but at the same time, kept retreating backwards. No need to provoke the bees into thinking they are competition.
He did note that the bees, instead of the yellow and black color, sported a white and red color instead.
"They look like candy canes." Nora said with wonderment. "Big flying candy canes!"
"Candy canes with stingers." Ren followed up, as they left the bee to their own device. Once they were far enough, they placed their weapons back. Ren looked around to determined the cave they came, only to realized that they wandered even further from it.
"I am going to take a look." Ren curtly said before he leapt upwards swiftly, his leg dashed from one branch to another until he reached the top of the tree.
From his vantage point ,he finally was able to surveyed the entire geography around him.
There was the forest, lush and green. When he turned to the east, he could see a open plain field that seemed to stretched as far as the eye can see.
He looked around a bit more before he was joined by Nora at his side.
"Wow." Nora placed a hand above her forehead to give her a clearer view. "This doesn't look like where we came."
Ren nodded mutely to that, the differing geography confirmed his suspicion. If the local fauna hadn't already did that.
He looked back and forth to get a bead on the cave before he heard a loud scream that echoed throughout the forest. A very human scream.
Ren and Nora turned to the direction it came from before they sprinted off with all their might as their surroundings blurred past them. The two moved with haste as they climbed over any obstacle in their way, anxiousness crept upwards in their veins.
He hoped that they were not too late, Ren grimaced to himself.
"Come on, Komatsu." Toriko sighed as he dropped a huge wild boar the size of a house down to the ground. "You already seen worst, this kind of thing shouldn't surprise you."
"I can never get used to this sort of thing!" Komatsu said with frustration and terror. "I thought this was a peaceful place!"
"Well, it is a peaceful place but we already pass through it. This is the danger zone even though majority of the beast here aren't meat eaters." Toriko explained curtly as he examined his kill with a grin. "Though i wonder how this celepig taste, this one must have been gorging on the forest for awhile."
Komatsu let out a resigned sigh, he supposed he gotten his hopes too high in this trip.
He had leapt for joy when Toriko planned to head to the Boulanger forest, a heaven for every bread and cake maker as plenty of ingredients was supplied from there. He also knew that the place was relatively safe.
At least, until now.
The forest then echoed with sound and movement, he let out a yelp as he took cover behind Toriko as he realized that something was approaching them fast.
The latter took a look behind as he stood up and prepared himself, he wondered what new threat would come after them.
His nose picked up the scent in the air, he frowned as he realized that he didn't recognized the scent.
A new kind of beast? He thought warily before two young teenagers crashed into the clearing.
Bishokuyas, here? Toriko wondered but didn't let his guard down.
One them was a male dressed in green clothing and white pants, his hair was black and had a thin strand of pink at the side. The other was a female in black collared vest mixed with white and black, pink skirt and orange hair.
He glanced over to their weapons, a pair of pistols and a large hammer.
Yet he didn't smell the familiar gunpowder scent, there was something mixed in it as well but he couldn't place it. A new compound or chemical?
As the two pairs stare at each other, the black haired one glanced towards the large boar before to him.
"H-hello there! Nice to meet you!" Komatsu gratefully said when he realized that it was people and not wild beast.
Hello, this is my first work with Toriko and RWBY cross. Criticism and comments are welcomed so that i can further improve my work.