Chapter 1

Gourmet Hunter, Cream

Someone once said. A long time ago, about five hundred years ago, a great war that lasted for 100 years was stopped by the ultimate ingredient; the legendary, GOD! The legendary Gourmet Hunter, Acacia, offered GOD to the leaders of all countries and the taste of it was so delicious, the leaders decided to share it with the people of their respective nations. Then, they declared that the war was a silly idea and came to an agreement for peace.

The world is in the great Gourmet Age. The age where people goes on a quest to seek many, undiscovered and wondrous ingredients!

The morning rose over the Gourmet City. The people started to wake up to go to work, school, and whatnot. At a small dormitory, a single boy was still sleeping until his alarm went off.

He looked at the time and gasped.

"Yikes! I am late…. again!" He jumped out of the bed quickly.

He rushed into the bathroom and fixed his hair that looked similar to the style of Princess Leia's hairstyle from Star Wars, except that his color was caramel-like brown, and brushed his teeth. He quickly changed his clothes to a clean, white cooker outfit and his red eyeglasses. He didn't have time to get breakfast, so with his outfit and backpack, he rushed out of the room. This boy was named Garry, a first-year student.

He ran as fast as he could, passing by other students who were mostly taller than him (his height was barely 5 feet for his age). He opened the door with the sign that says, "Gourmet High's Culinary Center". This here was the famous Culinary High Academy, a private high school designed for young generations to learn and someday become a chef themselves.

Luckily, the boy made it to the class on time. His classroom was actually a kitchen, and here he was being taught to how to cook and work in the kitchen.

"Good morning, class," announced the teacher as he was wearing a chef outfit. "Today, we will be preparing and cooking a rare ingredient; the Galaragator's meat!"

The students all looked surprised.

"Wow. Galaragator's meat!" Garry whispered softly to himself. "That's a very rare ingredient! Galaragator's meat becomes more delicious depending on how old it is, and it can live for over 150 years!"

"Fortunately, the IGO kindly donated some meats to our school and little note that they mentioned that it was captured by one of the four Heavenly Kings, that famous Gourmet Hunter…Toriko!"

The entire classroom gasped. Now that was even more surprising!

"Toriko! He's one of the famous Gourmet Hunters around!" Garry whispered excitedly to himself.

"With that enough said, let's prepare the said meat," the teacher declared.

So, the class began preparing and cooking the donated Galaragator's meat. The meat said to taste better as the creature, Galaragator itself grew older and older. Garry really wanted to cook it. His dream was to become the world's greatest chef, someday…but first thing first, he needed to wash the dishes.

"Garry, I need to ask you of something!" The teacher said to him loudly.

"Yes, sir!" Garry stopped the sink and wiped his hand before he walked over to the teacher. "Is there I can help you with, Chef Kakatori-san?"

During class, the students must address the teacher as "Chef", as if it was a real kitchen at a real restaurant.

"I need you to do me a favor. Apparently, I miscalculated and realized that we're running out of some spices for the class. Could you go and buy it for me?" the teacher asked.

"Sure thing, Chef Kakatori-san!" Garry agreed.

"That's my boy! Use this school's card and go on spending something else. Please get me some sweet tomato spice, jumbo dancing potato spice, and wasabi spice," the teacher said.

"Yes, sir! I will be on my way now," Garry said as he took the card with him and headed off after he changed his clothes. He put his outfit neatly at his locker and changed to his more casual look before he headed outside.

The teacher asked him to buy three spices. The best place to buy some were at the Gourmet Market. This was the most popular and busiest place for all kinds of ingredients, common and some rare ones gathered and sold at. People from all over the place gathered here to buy the ingredients and sell some, too.

This was actually the first time for Garry to visit such a wonderful place.

"Wow! This place is crowded and big! There are so many kinds of ingredients here!" Garry exclaimed as he walked around.

"Woah!" He turned over to one tent with a giant, blue tuna that shined like a rainbow color. "Is that Mermaituna!"

"That's right, kiddo!" The seller stated. "The one and only!"

"Wow! This is an extremely rare fish! It can be prepared into a dish called Bubbly Tuna and its meat only reaches its peak in 7 days after being caught," Garry said.

"That's right. You are smart there, kiddo," the seller chuckled. "It just got caught recently, so it is not that tasty yet, but I am hoping to make a good fortune out of it. Wanna buy?"

"Oh, um, no thank you. Actually, if you don't mind, could you show me where I can buy some spices?" Garry asked.

"Spices, huh? Sure thing," the seller said. "The spice shop is down this way and turn to your third left."

"Thank you, sir!" Garry nodded and headed off to the direction at running speed.

He didn't want to keep his teacher waiting, so he ran off to the direction that the kind Mermaituna seller pointed to, but then suddenly, he bumped into something.

"Oh! Sorry, but I didn't see….What the?!" In front of him was the face of a giant creature.

He screamed and stepped back twice to realize that the thing he bumped was a giant saucatopus, a kind of octopus that secretes different kinds of sauce, depending on its type. He recognized it as the soy-sauce type.

"Wow! That's a Soy-Saucatopus! That thing is also rare. Its capture level must be over 10 or something!" He exclaimed.

"Hm?" The giant octopus moved, making him think that it moved by itself surprisingly, but soon realized that someone was just carrying it and turning it around.

He soon realized that it was being carried by a young lady. She was a young lady with a strange mix of red and blue color for the hair. Her hair was long with two braids tied by a red ribbon to her head. Her eyes were a pinkish red color, and her skin was a milky white. She wore a white opened jacket with a black tank-top and pink heart on the backside of the jacket, short-shorts jeans, and brown boots with white socks. To the eyes of some girls, they could be envious for her shape.

"Oh!" Garry blushed to see a beautiful or cute girl. "Sorry to bump into you, miss."

"Hi there. What is a kid doing here at the Gourmet Market? Did you get lost from your parents?" Those questions staved Garry's heart like a sword.

"Hey, I am not a kid! I'm a high schooler!" He shouted.

"You're from Gourmet High Culinary Academy, right?" She asked straightforwardly.

Garry blinked and looked at her. "Huh? How did you know that?"

He was a bit surprised.

"Your hands. It smells all kinds of ingredients. I can smell some of the dishes from the school's menu, like the Eggargot Salad, Oranghimp Chelly, and Blue Appleberry Pies."

Garry gasped, with his eye wide. "Wow! I…had cooked and practiced in making those dishes and you guessed them all right!"

He just wondered who the heck this lady was. Then, he realized the reason why he was here.

"Ah! I forgot! I need to buy the spices, or my teacher will get angry!" Garry remembered, panicking.

"Spices? Are you going to cook something? Can I join you and eat it?!" The mysterious, young lady demanded as she partially drooled.

"Ah…what?" Garry asked, confused.

The next thing it happened, Garry returned to the school with the spices and also an unexpected guest. It was now lunch time, and today's lunch menu had an extra special menu; the prepared Galaragator's meat, prepared by Garry's class.

All the students enjoyed it…, but they were more intrigued to the unexpected guest that Garry bought or rather an unexpected guest who tagged along with him.

"Yum! This Galaragator's meat tastes so great!" Her eyes twinkled while her mouth was full.

"Um….I am glad to hear that, Miss," Garry said as he was surprised to see how many stuff she was eating at the table.

'Why did she tag along with me? And what's up with this appetite of her?!' He thought.

"Hey, kid! Give me another!" She demanded, showing her empty dish in front of him.

"Huh?! That was too fast!" He exclaimed.

Unfortunately, he couldn't argue with her and complied to her order. The other students watched as a single young lady devoured most of the menu, if not all of it.

"Hey, babe. You look fine." Garry turned to the three male students who approached them. Though, the mysterious young lady didn't pay any attention as she continued eating.

'Oh, crud! These guys again….!' Garry knew who these three were. They were senior, but troublesome punks who were basically bullies.

"Um, hi, ah, Zeus," Garry greeted.

"Get lost, pipsqueak! I am not here to talk to you!" He stated as he pushed him.

"Hey, get lost," said his lackeys.

"Ah! I only just said hi! Please don't hurt me!" Garry panicked.

"I will deal with you later! I just want to chat your friend here," he said before he turned his attention to the lady. "So, babe, what do you say? After your meal, you can hang out with me and I'll show you around the place."

"Buuurrrp!" The mysterious lady burped loudly, which surprised everyone, including Zeus and his lackeys.

Zeus coughed to keep his composure. "I see you enjoyed yourself. I can cook you some good friend if you would like to have some taste if you know what I mean."

"Gochisosamadesu," she said. She then stood up and looked at Zeus and his lackeys with her eyes all serious.

Zeus and his lackeys stepped back, looking intimidated as if they saw a monster.

"You know, boys. As much as I love eating and wants to try every food whenever I get a chance, there are three things I hate in this world," she said. "And one of them is bullying a fellow chef."

"Huh?" Garry looked up to the lady.

"Chef? You mean pipsqueak here?" Zeus asked. Then, he and his friends laughed hysterically.

"You're kidding me, right?! You think he is a chef! Huh! He has a lot to learn to become a full-fledged chef! In fact, this kid sucks at cooking, anyway!" Zeus laughed.

"Yeah! That's right!" His lackey added.

"Yeah! Like that time when he put the whole kitchen on fire one time!" Garry felt sad and couldn't even stand back up.

"And he did, did he?" She asked.

"Yeah! It cracks me up every time I hear it!" Zeus admitted as he couldn't stop laughing.

"Well, then. Was the fire strong like this?" She asked as she created a fist literally on fire.

Garry quickly noticed. She punched Zeus with a burning fist on fire, not only punching the jerk right in his fire but also burning him in the process.

"Stove!" She roared.

"Ah! Zeus!" His lackey cried.

She then moved passed so quickly with her legs up. The two lackeys turned back around, but when they did, their face was slammed by a powerful, yet strange cold sensation into their cheeks. Both of them hit each other into their cheek, slamming into the wall with partially frozen on their face.

"Freezer!" She yelled.

Garry and other students, including the cafeteria ladies, couldn't believe what they just saw.

"Ah…Ah…!" Garry was speechless, so surprised that he didn't soon realize that he was standing again. It was that shocking.

"Hey, thanks for the lunch and tell your teacher that your class makes an awesome dish. See ya," she said as she began walking away.

"Wait!" Garry shouted.

"Huh?" She turned around and looked at him.

"Um…Th…Than….Thank you!" He bowed to her. "May I just ask what is your name?!"

There was a moment of silence between them. The mysterious woman grinned lightly and said, "My name is Cream. I am Gourmet Hunter, Cream."

'Cream,' he whispered the name to himself. "Thank you, Cream-san! My name is Garry and it was a pleasure to meet you!"

She smiled and turned around, walking home as she waved her hand.

From this day forward, Garry will remember the mysterious lady, Cream who stood up for him, but this won't be the last time he meets her. It was the start of a long friendship and the journey ahead for the future.

- Toriko –

It was nighttime. Garry was in the classroom, working late on perfecting his cooking. This was his daily routine. He wanted to become a great chef someday, the world's greatest chef. Luckily, he met the greatest person he ever met, which popped up his interest in cooking.

He tasted the dish he made, with the soy sauce, a gift courtesy of Cream.

"Woah! This leftover Galaragator's meat with the Soy-Saucatopus match very well! It's perfect!" He said. "This must be the greatest dish I've made so far!"

He quickly wrote down the ingredients in his notebook. Throughout his life, since he was little, he wrote down every food that he cooked, including drinks, desserts, and others. Then, he briefly remembered the events that happened today.

"Ah…" He sighed. "I wonder if I will ever meet Cream again. Though, she may be a bit…OK, very big glutton, but she was so kind and incredibly strong. Like a superhero or something!"

He realized the time, so it was time for him to pack up and clean up. He cleaned up the counter, washed the dishes and utensils, put away his outfit into the lockers and locked it, and left the classroom.

As he walked back to his dorm room, he noticed a familiar person just standing alone in the light on his school campus's ground.

"Huh? Is that…Cream-san?!" He gasped.

"Yo, what's up," she greeted nonchalantly.

"Cream-san?! What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Actually, I want to see you again," she said.

Before he responded to how surprised he was to see her again, she sniffed him around, which made him jumped back.

"I see. You've been cooking with the leftover Galaragator's meat with the Soy-Saucotopus that I gave you as a gift," she said.

"Wow! Amazing! You have a really good sense of smell," Garry noted.

"Well, my sense of smell is actually better than a police dog," she explained.

"Really? Wow!" He said, but then remembered something. "Oh, um, but you said you want to see me again?"

"Yeah. Actually, I want to ask of you something," she said. "Would you like to come with me on a weekend tomorrow?"

"What?!" Garry gasped as his face turned red as a tomato. He never ever had thought that a girl would ask him fast before he did or ever in his life. It was all too sudden for him.

"I…I…" He didn't know what to say.

"I want you to come with me to the Emerald Plains," she said.

"Huh? Emerald Plains?" He thought that was a strange place for a date, but he also thought that this was not what he thought she was asking for. "Um, why, Cream-san?"

"You see. Right after I left after lunch, I just got a call from an old client of mine. They reported to me that it was ready," she said.

"Ready? What's ready?" He asked.

"The great and rare, Vanilla Bull!" She announced.

"Say WHHAAAAATT?!" Garry gasped, which echoed the entire campus.

Hello, everyone! This is NewComer1!

This is my newest and latest fanfic story, based on the anime series, Toriko! This story will be more OC-focused, but there will be some chapters based on the anime episodes. I will be writing mostly original chapters, but there will be chapters based on from the anime. The first couples of chapters will be original, but he will have the Regal Mammoth arc and others alike from the anime (and later from the manga, if we reached the last episode of the anime series).

With all that said, what do you all think of the story? Please let me know in your review, thought, comment, and if you have any ideas to share, like original characters, origianl ingredients, and whatever, go right ahead in the review or PM me.

See you guys soon with new chapter!