I don't own anything in this story I own myself for this is a self insert story, and the OCs.
Everyday adventures with Gourmet Hunter! A Daily Life with a Monster Girl X Toriko special. This chapter is based off of the One Piece x Toriko collaboration special.
Inside a theater a row of people began to take their seats, waiting for the show to start. Then multiple flashes of light were turned on and the red curtain before them rose to reveal the host of the theater, Estevan Martinez. The audience began to cheer and clap as the fire user took out a microphone and waved at the viewers.
"What's up everybody this is your host for today's special Estevan Martinez aka Asura94!" Estevan said to the viewers. "Now I know you FanFiction viewers out there have known me for my other work, but I want to thank you all for reading my top story Everyday adventures with Monster Girls!"
The audience in the theater lets out another round of applause. Estevan then laughs into the mic and motions the people to settle down. "I mean out of all my stories I have never seen so many favorites, reviews and followers in my time here on FanFiction. So again I wanna thank you all for reading my story, now I know many of you think I have to many girls in the story. And I know the saying 'too much is a good thing', but I still want to try my best."
Estevan then clears his throat and takes a sip of water. "Now before we begin I wanna bring in my girls who'll help me in this event, so let's hear for 'em folks! Let's give 'em a big welcome!"
The audience explodes in cheers as Miia, Papi Cera, Suu, Mero and Rachnera came out smiling and waving at the viewers. Each girl took their spot with their host and Miia took the mic from Estevan. "Hello, and welcome everyone to our first annual crossover special!" Miia shouts aloud and the viewing public lets out another cheer. "Today we'll be featuring a crossover between Everyday adventures with Monster Girls, with an anime you all know as Toriko!" The lamia girl flashed then a wink and a toothy grin.
Cera then takes over the microphone. "So to help us with this little project, please welcome our special guest Toriko!"
The audience went into a frenzy as a familiar man stepped on the stage, the special guest for today is none other than Toriko! Toriko is an extremely muscular and exceptionally tall 25-year-old man with somewhat messy blue neck-length hair. He has three scars running from his left ear to just under his left eye which he was born with. He has strong, angular facial features and somewhat catlike eyes. He is wearing a tight muscle orange spandex jumpsuit consisting of tight spandex orange cargo pants with pockets on the legs, dark blue knee-high boots, a black belt, a thin tight muscle black t-shirt with a tight muscle orange sleeveless vest both tucked in, and a red arm band on his left arm. The gourmet hunter lets out a laugh and waves at the viewing public.
"Hey everyone, thanks for having me for today's crossover special!" The blue haired hunter spoke out to the viewers. "For today's special Estevan and his whole family goes on vacation to the Caribbean, when they were hit by a violent storm which blew them into my world."
Estevan then takes over. "The reason why I wanted to do this crossover, is because ever since I watched Toriko and got into it. I swore that I'd make my own story of it, so I decided to do a crossover with it. The crossover will act as a hint for the upcoming story."
Soon all of them huddled together."So without any further ado, we now present Everyday adventures with Gourmet Hunter! Please enjoy the show!"
The whole audience erupted in cheers as the lights went out.
In the country of Japan the Martinez household was in a state of peace, after nearly losing his life and losing his girls, Estevan was trying to figure out where to have their vacation. He had talked it over with his mother Annabel behind the girl' backs, they wanted to surprise them after the event from last week they felt they deserve a little break. "I think I know where we're going."
Inside the kitchen were Annabel and her son's houseguests eating dinner. After the house was remodeled to be bigger everyone welcomed their new homestay students to their home. Rachnera the arachne who was almost kidnapped by Prism after she ran from MON squad before capturing her, her time with the Martinez family was difficult at first, but she then adapted to them quite well.
Alexis Bodewig a long legged breed and the second homestay student, who hails all the way from Germany, she lived with a militaristic family when she was young and when she got older she decided to enlist for the Inter-Species Exchange program to learn more outside of Germany.
Sabrina Zeddemore the large breed and third homestay student who lived in California. Now Sabrina was tough challenge since her kind were considered more aggressive than the other arachne species, still with a little hard work, time and patience Sabrina was beginning to warm up to the fire user, little by little.
Miya Sahashi the ookumade and third homestay student, she comes from Hokkaido her first time with the Martinez family was stressful for the timid centipede but in time she then got over her shy nature, and became more open with them. Both her and Kagura quickly became friends since both of them were born in Japan. And lastly Flay Ali Akbar the girtablilu and the last homestay student.
Flay comes from Egypt, even though she has an Arabic accent. During her time with her host family it wasn't easy for both her and Miya since their housemates were arachne, and since scorpions and centipedes eat spiders the three arachne women felt they were a threat. However both Estevan and Annabel played peace keepers and soon any hostility the three arachne had for Miya and Flay were gone.
As they were eating Estevan walked right into the dinning room. "Everyone, if you please." He spoke getting their attention. "Now, as you know we've had a long week for us, especially with that man Prism."
The mere mention of that man's name sent shivers down the spines of Miia, Cera, Shaia, Ryuko, Kagura, Cathyl and Haru for almost getting kidnapped. And Rachnera lowered her head in self guilt for almost falling for his silver tongue words, and almost ended up like the others. During her time with Estevan and his family made her feel safe. More welcomed than anyone would ever do for her because of her appearance.
"So, my mom and I have talked things over, and I think it's time...for a vacation. For all of us."
This sparked the girls interest. In their time living with their host family, they have never, been on any vacations before. "A vacation? My that's very interesting... Honey." Rachnera purred with delight, thinking of ways of getting the fire user in her clutches.
"So, where we vacationing at Bud?" Ryuko asked with a smirk.
"The Caribbean." He said with a smile. "Finish eating, then start packing we leave first thing in the morning."
The next day had arrived and out on the open sea was a large boat sailing across the ocean. The boat was all white with dark blue tidal waves printed on the sides, and pictures of suffers on the waves. Up at the nose of the boat was Estevan gazing at the vast ocean seeing the seagulls flying above the sky. Behind him was his mother sunbathing in a two piece dark violet bikini putting sun tan lotion on her pefect dark skin.
On the other side were the other girls either sunbathing, reading a few magazines, looking at the ocean or playing games, like Papi, Mako, Suu, Jelli and Quess are.
Miia, Ryuko and Kagura were in their pink, red and green bikinis he got for them when he and Miia went out on their date. The three serpentine girls were sitting on lawn chairs after putting lotion on their tails and leaned back to catch some sun.
Cera and Shaia were in their dark blue and orange bikini tops, extra large he might add and in their pareos, the same can be said for Serena, she wore a pure white bikini top and pareo, Tsen wore a yellow bikini top with pink lining. The centaur women mostly Cera, Shaia and Serena were sitting near a table reading books while Tsen was doing a few exercises.
Haru in a silver and gold bikini standing on the sail of the boat looking over the horizon. Papi and Mako wore standard school swimsuits while the slime trio wore their rain coats, they were playing a game of volley ball laughing and giggling as they had their fun with one another.
Rachnera wore a light purple bikini top with a specialized undergarment, she was sitting neat a table drinking a cold glass of tea. While behind her was Alexis in an olive green string bikini, the long legged arachne was relaxing on a hammock listening to Der Freischütz reading a thriller book. Sabrina however was in her black leather biker coat just sitting back and listening to heavy metal music.
Miya was sitting on the wooden floor of the boat, her lower body coiled around in her kimono drinking a cup of green tea. And Flay wearing a black Egyptian cotton bikini top and bottom was sitting next to Miya drinking tear with her. Cathyl was wearing a red one piece and Maggie wore a light green one piece bikini, both minotaur girls were sitting near a table playing a game of cards And Mero, Airini and Aashi were sitting at the edge of the boat's pool wearing their two piece blue, orange and dark blue swimwear.
And lastly Smith and MON squad were sitting together near the boat's bar table. Estevan had called Smith yesterday to see if she and her group wanted a little vacation time, which the coordinator happily agreed to. She wore a black sundress with a light blue jacket, black pants and sandals.
Manako was wearing a white sun blouse with blue jeans and sun hat over her head, Tio wore an extra large yellow and white sundress and coat, white pants and a red beret hat, Zombina wore a black tank top shirt, blue jeans with a few tears and a red aviators jacket while Doppel wore nothing at all.
"I wanna thank you for giving us a ride to the Caribbean for us, Mako." Estevan said thanking the captain of the boat.
Mako Tsunami was a well built sailor in his forties with lightly tanned skin, wearing dark blue shorts with a swordfish picture on the right leg, a short sleeved shirt with an anchor and seagull on top of it and a tattoo of his namesake the mako shark. He had black spikey hair, a long scar on his right cheek and ocean blue eyes. "Ah, it's nothing. After all you helped me and my crew before, it's the least I can do to give you and your girls a ride." He said with a slightly deep voice. "We should be there in a few hours."
Esetvan then walked back to his lawn chair and decided to relax by napping, things were looking good for them the sun is shining, the gulls are flying overhead and the sounds of the ocean waves filled his ears. Its days like this he rarely ever got to relax. However fate, had other plans. Clouds started blotting out the sun, the wind was starting to pick up speed, and a rumbling sound was heard.
This snapped Estevan out of his nap when he heard the rumble, and so did Mako and the girls. They all turned their gaze at the clouds and saw a flicker of light, which meant only one thing; lightning.
"This isn't good." Mako uttered under his breath. Putting the boat on auto he went down to his passengers and called out. "Everyone! We have a storm coming in, I don't know how bad it'll be but I suggest you all head below deck where its safe. Estevan I need you out hear to help keep this ship under control!" Some of the girls protested and wanted to help, but with some convincing Annabel and the girls went below while Estevan stayed behind.
Eventually the storm started to hammer the ship hard, as rain, howling winds and flashes of lighting were seen and heard. The waves began to rise and lightly tossed the ship side to side. Mako and Estevan held onto the wheel trying to keep the ship steady.
Then the loudest thunder roared in the air, like a mighty beast roaring at the top of it's lungs. Estevan and Mako gritted their teeth using all their strength to keep the ship from going out of control, until they saw a very large black storm cloud before the ship itself. The current of the ocean was rolling the ship towards the cloud and the two men tried to turn the ship to avoid the storm cloud but it was for naught.
"We...can't get clear of the cloud! The currents too strong!" Mako growled under his breath.
"Keep trying Mako, I'm gonna try something." Estevan lets go of the wheel and stood at the nose of the boat. Eyes glowing red the fire user took a deep breath as a flash of lighting hit Estevan fired his Hellfire breath at the cloud hoping to disburse the cloud.
But by doing so it had a violent reaction as fire and lightning raged within, soon the boat went inside the raging storm clouds. Both Mako and Estevan screamed at the top of their lungs and then everything went dark.
Darkness. Nothing but darkness, is all Estevan could see. He could also hear the sound of waves washing over land. Groaning he slowly opened his eyes, and his blurred vision was beginning to clear. And when it did he saw it was day time the storm that hit the boat had died down and everything went back to normal. Slowly getting up he placed his hands on his head to keep himself steady, feeling the dizziness wash over him.
Lying three feet from him was Mako who was knocked out like he was. He looked ahead and saw a vast jungle before him, he looked left and right and saw nothing but row upon row of trees.
Turning back to Mako he went over and gently shook him. "Mako. Hey, Mako wake up."
A groan escaped the captain's lips and his eyes fluttered open. "Estevan?" He said. The captain then sat up rubbing his face.
"Hey, don't over do it. You alright there, Mako?"
"I'll let you know, as soon as my head stops spinning." Mako slowly stood on his feet and saw it was day time. "Where the hell are we, exactly?"
Before he could answer Estevan heard a muffled scream and banging coming from the edge of the beach. Both men looked and saw it was the ship on it's side. The ship itself was really banged up, it had holes, dents and tears all from storm from yesterday. The screams were coming from the boat's lower deck which made Estevan gasp. "Mom! The girls!" Rushing over Estevan hopped on the boat he went to the door and tore it open, only to be tackled by a teary eyed Miia.
"DARLING!" The lamia cried out as she buried her face on his burning chest.
"Master/Milord, are you alright?"
"Danna-sama/Aruji-donno, daijoubu?"
All of the girls who came out voiced their concerns for their host, as did Annabel, Smith and MON. But Estevan assured them he was alright. Mako then checked his boat for anymore damages and looked over the ship's engine. "Well, aside from the body the engine seems to have some superficial damage, but I'll need to look it over again. Incase I miss anything."
Suddenly everybody's stomachs began to growl, indicating that they were hungry. Unfortunatly most of the food on the ship was lost during the storm so there wasn't any left. Mako told them he'd get to work on fixing the ship as best he can, while Smith, MON squad and some of the girls stay behind to help while Estevan, Annabel, Miia, Papi, Cerea, Rachnera, Flay, Sabrina, Shaia and Cathyl went to look for food.
Walking through the jungle all they saw were nothing but tress on all sides, most of them who're not used to the heat were sweating. "Phew, sure is hot out here in the south. It's almost hot enough to be like an oven." Cathyl said wiping off sweat from her forehead.
"Indeed. In all my time in England I have never encountered such a heat wave like this." Shaia said with her fellow centaur agreeing with her.
"This heat is nothing to me. Back in Egypt my kind can withstand the rising temperatures of the desert." Flay said taking the heat in stride.
Suddenly the shouts of Miia caught their attention. Up ahead was Miia standing at the opening of the path standing still like a statue. "Miia? What is it?" Annabel asked.
"Me- Meat!" The pink haired lamia shouts her arms high in the air. They looked ahead and what they saw completely stunned them. Out in the wide open space were trees, not any normal trees. But trees that bears meat. Honest to god meat! Instead of wood the body of the tree was all bone, there were more of these meat trees surrounding them. Miia who's eyes sparkled like stars was drooling at the meat before her.
"A tree that bears meat?" Sabrina said completely flabbergasted at the site of them. They have seen many trees before but none of them ever had any meat before. Estevan walks up to the tree, grabs one of the ham-bone meat and plucks it off. Sniffing it, it smelled like regular meat so he decided to taste it and when he did his eyes widened with surprise.
"Holy shit! This tastes like the real deal meat!" He said with awe and took an even bigger bite.
"Let me try Darling!" Miia grabs one of the meat from the tree and sank her teeth in. "Hmm. This tastes like nothing I had before!" Miia beams at the wonderful taste of the meat from the tree.
Sabrina walks up next to them and takes one of the meat herself, taking a bite her eyes widened from the incredible taste. "My god, this is the best meat I ever had!" The large arachne cleans the bone of meat and takes another.
"That's a pretty carnivorous kind of thing for a plant to have. Don't you think?" The minotaur said which the others nodded.
Then Papi walked across them with a white fluffy cotton ball in her wings. "Look at this mushroom! It's made of cotton candy!" The harpy exclaimed with a wide smile. This made everyone look at her with surprise as she took a bite of the cotton candy mushroom. "Yummy!"
Annabel then notices long yellow noodle like grass and went over. "This grass..." Kneeling down she took a string of the yellow grass and gave it a nibble. "It's perfect lightly boiled al dente pasta." She said with amazement in her voice.
Cathyl looks all around them gazing the area with curiosity. "What the hell's going on with this island?" She asked aloud.
"Well, doesn't look like we'll have any problems with stocking up on food, but..." Flay stated as she and the others watched Estevan, Miia and Sabrina eating a feew more of the meat tree. Papi then saw these long tall grass with a an opening at the top, she finished her cotton candy mushroom and flew over. "What's this?" She peeked into the leaves that were opened and saw clear fluids inside. "Hey, Annabel, what's this stuff?"
The dark skinned beauty walked over and immediately recognized it. "That's pseudopyxis depressa. It's a type of medicine that can help with stomach pains. But this isn't like any type of plant I ever seen before." She placed her chin between her thumb and index finger.
*Rustling*
Papi heard something moving in the tall grass, then suddenly something grabbed her. "HA!" Her cries caught everyone's attention and froze when they saw what, or rather who has Papi.
The man standing before them, holding Papi in his two hands was an extremely muscular and exceptionally tall 25-year-old man with somewhat messy blue neck-length hair. He has three scars running from his left ear to just under his left eye which he was born with. He has strong, angular facial features and somewhat catlike eyes. He is wearing a tight muscle orange spandex jumpsuit consisting of tight spandex orange cargo pants with pockets on the legs, dark blue knee-high boots, a black belt, a thin tight muscle black t-shirt with a tight muscle orange sleeveless vest both tucked in, and a red arm band on his left arm.
The man was holding Papi with this wide grin on his lips, then more rustling was coming from behind him. "Toriko!" A voice called out. Then another person came out from behind the tall man who's name is Toriko if they heard correctly. Then something else came from behind, what they saw was something that was amazing. A large wolf had leaped out of the tall grass landing next to the shorter man. It's fur was pure snow white in color, with two blue markings on each side of it's face resembling scars below it's eyes. It's eyes was all black with pink pupils.
"Please don't leave me behind!" The shorter man complained to his friend.
"Check it out, Komatsu. A rare animal!" The short man Komatsu is a short, thin, and light-skinned young man with short black hair, large black eyes, and a rather wide nose with large nostrils. He appears to be wearing khaki shirts and pants.
Komatsu looks at Papi who was still trapped in Toriko's grasp. "This Hungry-La island sure is incredible. It even has some weird looking creatures, this one looks almost human!" He said with amazement.
"She sure looks delicious, doesn't she?" Toriko said which made Papi's blood run cold when she saw a hungry look in his eyes. "I wanna eat her!" This made the poor harpy shake in terror, she was about to become this guy's meal until.
"LET PAPI GOOO!" Estevan roars as he jumps in the air, and shoots a fire-based ki attack at them.
Toriko was able to jump out of the way while the wolf grabbed Komatsu by his backpack. Just in time as the ki sphere struck the ground creating an explosion. "Did he just shoot a fire ball?!" Komatsu exclaims in disbelief.
Snarling angrily Lands on the ground and looks up to see Toriko high in the air with Papi in his grasp. Jumping back in the air Estevan reached Toriko and launched a hail of punches at him. Surprisingly Toriko was able to block all of them with just one hand! No one has been able to block his punches with one hand, except of course his masters who taught him how to fight. "What's with this guy?!" Toriko said aloud as he and Estevan slowly reached the ground. Once on the dirt Estevan threw a right backwards heel kick, but like with his punches Toriko had blocked it.
Miia, Annabel and the others only watched on as the fire user and the blue haired man glared at each other. Komatsu and the wolf had landed safely behind Toriko watching him fight the stranger who had attacked them. "Darling!" Miia called out which made Toriko throw Estevan's leg away.
Regaining his footing, Estevan stood his ground with eyes burning red. "What the hell are you doing with Papi?" He asked him with steam rising from his body.
"Huh? It shouldn't be a problem. I'm the one who captured her. So she's my prey." He told the fire user which made Papi shrieked.
"Eh?! Prey?!" She said with dread. "You're really gonna eat me?!"
"Yep."
"Hey, hey, I'm- I'm not really tasty! I taste awful really!" She said to him flaying her wings, hoping to discourage the man from eating her.
Which it worked when he had this shocked expression. "What?! You don't taste good?!" He asked with a disappointed tone. "Well then, I guess I don't really have a choice... Hey, wait, what if... SHE TALKED!" He exclaims with disbelief while Komatsu was stunned to hear the human looking bird actually talking to him.
Estevan only raised a brow in confusion. What's with this guy? Hasn't he seen a harpy before? Apparently not since he was going to eat her. "Wh-Why can this girls talk?!" Toriko asked pointing at Papi.
"What do you expect? She's a harpy, dumbass!" Estevan retorted at this man's stupidity not even knowing what a harpy is.
"I'm asking why she can talk!"
As Estevan and Toriko argued lurking in the shadows of the trees, multiple yellow eyes were shining through the darkness. This made Toriko and Estevan sensed them, while the white wolf let out a growl as it sensed danger was coming.
"What?" Cerea asked.
"These are..." Flay said as they saw the yellow eyes that are surrounding them.
Then one by one the eyes stepped out of the trees and into the open reveling themselves. The creatures surrounding them are large vicious-looking furry pink hog whose hairless brown torso resembles grilled pork. Around their eyes were flame like patterns and for some strange reason the red stripes on their backs were letting out heat and smoke and a sizzling sound. As vicious as they looked, they small really good. Almost like...grilled meat! The smell alone was making the fire user salivate.
"Oh, boy! What a delicious smell... What kind of pigs are these?" Estevan asked with his red eyes staring hungrily at the large pigs.
Toriko put Papi down and turns his gaze at the pigs. "Looks like at some point we accidentally entered their territory." Soon more of these pigs came out to join their kin, glaring angrily at the intruders. "They're Barbecue Pigs." Some of these Barbecue Pigs snorted and pawed at the dirt, moving closer to the group of humans and non-humans.
"Awesome! The pigs are still alive and walking while they're being barbecued!" Miia and Papi exclaimed in amazement. Never in their entire lives at they ever seen pigs like these before, they seen regular pigs and barbecued pigs, but nothing like quite these pigs before. Just what kind of island did they land on?
"Barbecue Pigs. Ferocious pigs that mercilessly bring the heat on anyone who trespasses on their territory." Toriko explains with a smirk forming.
"Bring the heat?" Annabel asked in disbelief. " They're already on fire!"
"If you feed them some sweet herbs or ghost truffles right before eating them, that gives them the best taste. But their capture level if 1." Komatsu told them as he backed away while the wolf stood there growling at the pigs.
"Capture level?" Shaia asked the little man.
"Yes. They're set by the International Gourmet Organization, the IGO. It indicates how difficult it is to capture the prey. Capture level 1 prey takes about ten professional hunters armed with hunting rifles to take them down." He explains to them once more.
Barbecue Pig [mammal beast] capture level 1.
"Although it's not a high of a capture level for Toriko to handle, but with this many it could be dangerous."
Looking back at said man, all Toriko did was staring at the pigs with his mouth wide open, and drool falling his jaw. "He doesn't seemed to mind, thought." The dark skinned beauty said with a small sweat drop forming on her head.
"They look so good!" Is all he said.
Then without warning the Barbecue Pigs charged at them intending to kill them. Estevan got into a fighting stance ready to face these pigs, when he saw Toriko clasped his hands together and bowed his head. He recognized this sincehe lives in Japan it's customary for the people of Japan to bow their heads to give thanks for the food, it seems Toriko knows this as well. "It's time to eat." With that said Toriko charges along with Estevan fists engulfed in fire.
One of the pigs went for Toriko but the blue haired man gave a mighty punch knocking the pig down to the ground. Estevan back flipped and threw a fire-based ki sphere at one of the pigs causing an explosion and sending it rolling on the dirt. The wolf also charged in, leaps in the air and grabs one of the pigs by the throat and throws it on the ground.
The others were fighting these pigs as well, Cathyl used her minotaur strength to easily manhandle them, Miia using her snake like speed to easily dodge them and lashing her tail in a whip-like motion sending the pigs flying back. Sabrina was like an animal, using her teeth and claws against these Barbecue Pigs and tossing them aside like they were toys.
Rachnera used her webs to easily bind them and using the tied pigs like a mace by hitting the other pigs. Flay used her tail and pincher claws to take care of any of the pigs that got to close to Annabel, Papi and Komatsu while Cerea and Shaia used their swords and centaur strength to kick the attacking pigs. Two Barbecue Pigs jumped over the two centaur to punch on them, but Estevan got in between the two pigs, grabbed them and slammed them face first on the dirt.
Then suddenly black smoke was coming from were the pigs landed. "What is that foul smell?" Shaia asked holding her nose along with Cerea. Estevan also held his nose from the bad smell. "It smells like burnt meat!" He then saw that the two pigs he brought down were really angry, their red stripes then turned orange and their eyes glowed yellow, and black smoke came from their stripes. The smell of burnt meat was coming from them!
Two more Barbecue pigs were thrown on the ground, only they were dead. Toriko lands on his feet and went for the ones Estevan angered. "Don't get them mad! If they get mad, they heat up until their bodies get totally burnt! You've gotta finish them instantaneously!" He said while punching the angry pig.
"Right!" Estevan dodged the other angry pig and threw a fire ki sphere in it's face.
"He sure knows a lot about the biology of animals, huh?" Annabel said amazed at Toriko's knowledge of these creatures.
Komatus however corrected her. "Well it's not so much animals, it's ingredients he knows a lot about. That's because Toriko's a Gourmet Hunter." He told them smiling at his friend as he fought the pigs.
Papi having a confused expression tilts her head and asked. "What's a Gourmet Hunter?"
"A Gourmet Hunter is someone who goes after unknown tastes, searches out and eats undiscovered ingredients. Almost like a food investigator. Toriko has discovered about 2% of the approximately 300,000 known types of ingredients worldwide. That's about 6000 varieties. He's the charismatic Gourmet Hunter." Komatsu finished explaining which left Annabel and Papi stunned on how incredible Toriko is.
"He sure is amazing." Annabel said aloud.
Toriko punched another Barbecue Pig, then looks behind him to see Estevan taking a deep breath and spews his Hellfire breath at one of the pigs causing an explosion and sending the pig flying. This left the blue haired Gourmet Hunter stunned, in all his years of traveling the world to discover the unknown culinary delights the world has to offer, he has never seen a human who's body glowed burning red, throws fire-based energy attacks and even spewing fire from their mouths. 'This guy's really something.' "Hey, I've been wondering about it for a while now, but your body, it's like it's made of fire, huh?" He asked dumbly at the fire user.
"Yeah, I was born like this. My body has an internal heat source which allows me to use fire attacks, even absorb fire and other sources of heat to make me stronger." Estevan told him.
"Absorb fire?! Now that is interesting, what does fire taste like?!" He asked right after he punched a pig that tried to sneak attack him. "Does fire taste good?"
"Eh," Estevan kicks a pig that blindly charged at him, then turns back to Toriko. "I guess it all depends on what makes the fire, I guess."
"Oh? Is that so, huh?" Toriko asked while stretching his right hand out to stop a pig by the snout.
"Yup." Estevan told him while mimicking the hunter by stretching his right hand and stopping another pig.
Looking at the Barbecue Pig Toriko cocks his left fist back ready to finish it off. "Well, with that said, what do you say we take care of these guys?"
"Happy to oblige!" Both Estevan and Toriko then simultaneously punched the last two Barbecue Pigs and with that the fight was over. Dusting his hands off Estevan turns and faces Toriko who in turn faced him as well, both men stared down at one another until Toriko smiled and gave a thumbs up. Estevan smiled back and gave his own thumbs up at the Gourmet Hunter.
"DARLING!" Miia tackles the fire user on the ground and wraps his legs in her tails. "Darling, you were so incredible! Facing those oversized pigs and protecting us, you were like a fire knight saving the princess! I love you even more, Darling!" Miia exclaims rubbing her face in his neck. While everyone in Estevan's group were used to Miia's open affections Toriko, Komatsu and the wolf were flabbergasted by the scene before them.
Suddenly the sound of multiple footsteps were coming from the main entrance of the forest, the familiar forms of Smith, Mako and the rest of the girls came rushing out in the field no doubt they heard the explosions from the fight and knew something happened. When they saw Toriko, Komatsu, the wolf and the pigs Smith demanded an explanation. An hour or so all the Barbecue Pigs were cut up, cook and served on large leaves that acted like plates for them. Everyone clasped their hands together and bowed.
"Time to eat!"
Soon everyone were gorging into the pig meat and the moment they tasted it, it was simply divine. The meat was unlike anything they ever tasted! It was so juicy, so tender and crispy it put any pork meat they had before to shame. Estevan was eating the pig meat with gusto as did Mako , the meat was so delicious they couldn't get enough. "So, good!" Mako sighed before going back into the meat.
"Barbecue Pig. It's got sweet trickling top-quality fat. And the smell of this appetite-whetting spice is irresistible!" Toriko commented the meat with a mouth full before swallowing and biting another piece.
"We've got you to thank for being able to eat something this good. Thanks!" Ryuko said before taking a bite off her fork.
"Indeed this meat is unlike anything I ever tasted, it's as if kami-sama himself had blessed us with this bountiful feast." Kagura said as she chewed her food and sipped her green tea.
Komatsu and Annabel had made plenty of salads for those who're herbivore which they took a real liking to this new type of vegetable. Papi and Mako were sitting next to the wolf who they found out was called Terrycloth or Terry for short, both harpy girls took a real shine to the wolf. Terry was licking Papi's face causing the harpy to giggle which caught Toriko's attention. "Oh? You two got Terry to open up to you. You two sure are interesting little girls." Toriko said before placing a slab of meat in his mouth. "She's a Battlewolf. That's pretty rare, they never get attached to people. Sorry for trying to eat you before."
"It's ok, Papi and Mako are friends with her, right? Terry?" Papi asked Terry who nodded.
Smith finished chewing her food and drank her beer and had this bewildered look. "Still, I can't believe Darling-kun and the others got attacked by pigs that were pre-barbecued. Just what kind of island is this anyway? It's totally surreal."
"That's because this is Hungry-La island." Komatsu told her bringing more food.
"Hungry-La island?" The coordinator repeated.
"It's an island that's known for being teeming with plenty of ingredients. Its existence used to be legend, but..."
"That's this place?" Smith asked briefly interrupting Komatsu.
"Yes." He said.
"How'd you two find such a tiny island in a vast sea like this?" She asked Komatsu.
Then Toriko decided to tell her. "Well, when we were traveling the ocean, I smelled the sweet aroma of food. And we found this place."
"Just what kind of nose do you have, anyway?" She asked him. Before he could continue eating, something hit Toriko like a ton of bricks. "Oh, yeah, that reminds me." Turning to Estevan who also stopped eating to see what the blue haired man wanted. "I've been meaning to ask, but where are you guys from exactly? I mean Komatsu and I travelled the world and seen strange things, but never once have we meet anyone who's born with fire abilities. Or those who're half human and half animal." He then sat upright and crossed his arms with a small frown and hard look in his eyes. "So, you mind telling us where you're from?"
Smith and Estevan began to explain to Toriko that they came from Japan and had told them that were they're from, there were no pigs that were pre-barbecued or trees that bored meat or anything like they found on the island. Just regular plant and animal life. They then told them about the non-humans who've been in hiding for years and that the government decided to reveal them to the world, and created the Inter-Species Exchange Bill for those who wish to live among the humans and to learn more about each other.
Smith told Toriko that Estevan was apart of that program as a host family and that the girls are his homestay students, she even told Toriko that if a human were to harm the non-human in anyway it would cause a diplomatic problem and that the human would be in jail for life.
Which meant that if Toriko had eaten Papi, then he would be in a hell of a lot of trouble with the government if he did. "Consider yourself lucky, if you had eaten her Toriko then my squad would have no choice, but to arrest you." She said with a massive killer intent around her which made the Gourmet Hunter and his little friend shiver in fear.
"I see, but still this is the first time I heard of such a thing like this. A place were there's only normal animals and plant life, non-humans who've been hiding for years? That's just so weird!" Toriko said rubbing the back of his head.
"What do you mean?" Haru asked him.
Toriko and Komatsu began to explain to their new friends that the age they're in is known as the 'Gourmet-Age' and that about every animal and plant life are all edible and that almost all of them look like food in appearance. They also told them the world was divided into two different world; the Human World which is where they're in is where humanity lives in even though there are plenty of wild beasts in the human world for Gourmet Hunters to go and capture, and then there's the Gourmet World a place that is so dangerous and fold of life threatening perils the animals there have immensely high or unknown capture levels and the environment in the Gourmet World was even more dangerous if you're not built for such a place.
This left Estevan and his group speechless, a place that was full of monsters and dangerous environments? That sounded like something from a story, or a fantasy movie. "Guys, this may sound crazy but. I think we're not in the Atlantic Ocean anymore." Estevan said with an uneasy tone.
"Eeeeehhhhh!"
This bit of news left the girls and Mako stunned beyond belief. "Not in zhe Atlantic Ocean?! Are you sure, Mein Fuhrer?" Alexis asked him, in all her lifetime never had she thought it possible to be in another world so different from theirs.
"Yeah, I mean think about it for a sec, that storm that appeared and me using my Hellfire breath on it must've transported us from the Atlantic Ocean, to Hungry-La island." Estevan could think of any number of theories but found none and went with the only thing he could think off. No one said anything and left this new information sink in and went back to eating the food.
Moments later all the meat was gone and everyone were full completely. Mako told them that he was going to go back and finish repairing the boat with what little he had, fortunately Toriko told him that a couple of his friends would be arriving soon and would bring some repair kits and fuel for the boat.
Smith and the other went back with Mako to help him, Estevan, Annabel, Miia, Papi, Cerea, Rachnera, Shaia, Flay, Sabrina and Cathyl tagged along with Toriko, Komatsu and Terry to gather more supplies for when they leave the island. As they walked through the jungle Annabel decided to ask Toriko his reason for coming to the island. "By the way Toriko, exactly what brought you and Komatsu all the way to Hungry-La island anyway?"
Toriko flashed her a toothy grin. "The Hungry-La Bird."
This made everyone look at him questionably. "Hungry-La Bird?" Rachnera asked him, of all the birds she heard of this one is something she or anyone in the group never heard of.
"Yeah. The legendary ingredient, Hungry-La Bird. We came to this island for the purpose of catching it. 'Course, if we come against it, there's no guarantee we'll come out alive." He said but the way he said it so casually wasn't really encouraging. "But they say its meat melts the moment it touches the tongue, that it has a rich sweetness, and exudes an indescribable fragrance."
"It has a complex wealth of varieties in it. People who've eaten it are forever enraptured by it." Komatsu said taking over for Toriko. "So much that it brought about the rumor that "All tastes lead to Hungry-La." There are stories that people who have eaten it can never forget its taste, and when they realized that, they begin to swim through the seas looking for this island."
The way Komatsu was explaining about the meat of the bird was enough to make Estevan's and Miia's mouths water, just thinking about how it tastes makes them hungry all over again. "Hungry-La Bird? Just how delicious is it, Toriko?!" Miia asked with a wide grin wanting to eat this bird.
Toriko flashed her an eager grin. "Yeah, just thinking about it..."
"Makes me hungry!" Both hunter and lamia said in unison, the funny thing about this, is that Toriko had such a round pot belly from eating earlier had shrunken down rather quickly.
Such an action completely weirded them out. "Just what kind of stomach do you have?!" Cathyl asked Toriko in disbelief of the man's gluttony.
"Seeing as it's the legendary Hungry-La Bird, maybe I can add it to my Full Course Menu." Toriko told them ignoring Cathyl's question.
However when they heard him say 'full course menu' got them tilting their heads. "'Full Course'?" Cerea asked.
Komatsu decided to fill them in. "Toriko is making a lifetime Full Course Menu from hors d'oeuvre to dessert."
"Toriko's Full Course?! Oh, I wanna eat it!" Papi said with excitement and a beaming smile.
"Though I still haven't decided on it at all." He said to the harpy.
Then Flay asked. "But how do you know the Hungry-La Bird is on the peak of the mountain?"
The blue haired hunter looks over his shoulder facing the mountain. "Take a look. The plants of the Hungry-La Island grow extraordinarily fast. But despite that, there isn't a single blade of grass growing on the mountaintop." To prove his point he showed them the mountain in question did not have any grass or tree on it, leaving it completely bare.
"So that means there's something with a big enough appetite to eat all the plants before they finish growing, which means that without a doubt, the legendary bird, the Hungry-La Bird is there."
Sabrina slightly impressed crossed her arms and gave a small smirk. "Oh, is that so?" Suddenly Terry tensed up and let out a snarl, this made everyone rush to the battlewolf only to see what she was growling at.
"This is bad news." Is what Toriko said when he laid eyes on two larger than life muscular bears with a single purple horn on their heads.
"What in tarnation are these guys?" Cathyl exclaimed when they found themselves by more of these bears leering over them.
"WHAT ARE THESE GUYS?!" Papi screamed in fright hiding behind Annabel.
"One-Horned Bears." Toriko said.
"Toriko, you said each creature has a capture level, right? So what capture level are these guys?" Rachnera asked the hunter.
"They're capture level 2, a level higher then the Barbecue Pigs."
One-Horned Bear [mammal beat] capture level 2.
The bears started growling at the group of humans and non-humans making them tensing up. "What're you growling at? You wanna fight?" Snarled Estevan. Before he could strike Toriko stops him.
"Stop. Their meat is tough and totally inedible." This made Estevan raise a brow, is this guys serious? Did he really think he was gonna eat these bears?!
"So.." Toriko said before taking off. "Run away!" This made everyone look at him completely stunned with his action. Wasn't he supposed to be this great Gourmet Hunter? If so, why is he running when he can easily fight these bears? With no choice they ran after him before the bears could swipe them with their paws.
They were able to catch up with Toriko which gave Annabel the chance to question his behavior. "Wait! Why are you even running? Couldn't you beat those guys up like you say you do all the time?!" Estevan was in agreement with his mother, he was stupefied by Toriko running from the creatures. even before coming to this strange world, Estevan was hardly anyone who'd run from anything especially from a fight.
"Outside the purpose of eating them, I don't take the prey's lives. That's my rule!"
'So that's it then, huh?' The fire user grunted not really liking the idea of running away. "DARLING!" The sudden cries of Miia snapped Estevan out of his train of thought and turned only to gasp when he saw Miia and the others being surrounded by the bears. Anger coursed through his being and his body engulfed in his flaming aura. Turning back Estevan leaps into the air and lands in the circle where the girls are when the bears were closing in.
Letting out a growl Estevan's body was engulfed in fire forcing the bears to step back as the intimidation demon appeared before them snarling angrily at the bears. Toriko and Komatsu gaped at the sight of the demon, in all his years as a Gourmet Hunter Toriko has never seen anyone out of those he knew with an intimidation demon of their own. 'This aura, it feels...hot and there's an overwhelming amount of anger in the air, like a roaring fire setting everything ablaze!'
The bears slowly backed away from this hideous demon before them, as it glared white-hot daggers into their souls. Raising it's muscular arms the demon slams it's fist on the ground sending the bears flying. Estevan charges at the bears and began to fight them. Using the demon he grabbed them either punching them or throwing them away. Some of the bears tried to fight back only to get blasted by his fire attacks.
Both Toriko and Komatsu watched on as the fire user defeated the One-Horned Bears with such ferocity. Deciding to cut their loss the bears had to flee before the demon before them could do far worse to them. Estevan was panting heavily from fighting the bears and calms down thus making the intimidation demon vanish.
"You girls ok?" He asked them which they nodded. However he wasn't very happy at all when he turned his red gaze at Toriko who flinched at his burning eyes. Slowly walking to the hunter Estevan snarls. "Listen and listen well, Toriko, I don't give a rat's ass if these animals are edible or inedible, if they so much a present a danger to my girls, I. Will. Kill. Them! And I don't want to hear any of it from you. Are we clear on that, Gourmet Hunter?" He asked with a mocking tone from what he saw he was not impressed with Toriko's way of thinking when he made them run from the bears and in doing so got the girls almost killed.
All Toriko could do was nod slowly, feeling guilty that his action could've gotten the girls killed and in trouble with Smith from what she told them about the non-humans being harmed in any way. Suddenly the winds started picking up forcing everyone to brace themselves, then they heard loud flapping sound. Flapping sounds that could only come from a really huge flying animal.
And there hovering over them was the creature Toriko and Komatsu spoke of earlier. The bird was enormous about twice as big as those bears, it had four six-clawed legs, blue-grayish feathers and white feathers at the tail feathers, wing feathers and head. Its beak was a bright orange beak, yellow eyes and a red crest. "This intimidating air... There's no mistake, this is the Hungry-La Bird!" The Gourmet Hunter exclaimed.
"Exactly, what capture level is this one?" Shaia asked over the winds.
"The Hungry-La Bird, is a capture level 3!"
Hungry-La Bird [bird beast] capture level 3.
The bird let out a loud caw forcing Estevan and Toriko readying themselves to fight. The bird went in on the offensive and charged with its claw stretched out it struck Toriko who held onto the bird's claw leaving trenches in the dirt. With a burst of strength Toriko heaved the bird over him crashing on it's back and rolling on all fours. Then the bird turned it's gaze at Annabel and the others and flew towards them.
Annabel got the girls out of the way while Shaia was able to jump to her right and kicked it in it's neck. However the bird tossed the centaur in the air Rachnera acted quickly and used her web to lasso Shaia and bring her back, Cathyl leaps in the air ready to attack but the bird used it's right wing to whack her down. "Cathyl!" Cerea cried out after seeing her fellow housemate fall on her side.
Eyes glowing brightly Estevan charges at the four legged bird and threw a straight left punch but when his fist connected his hand felt like it struck metal. Getting a quick look he saw that most of torso feathers were steel-like which made the perfect armor for it.
"This bastards hard!" Estevan growled.
"It's like the bird's covered in steel armor." Flay said after looking over Cathyl for wounds.
The Hungry-La Bird flew around in the air letting out a cawing screech before going for a nose dive. By the time it flew close to Estevan and Toriko the bird started pecking them with its beak with surprising speed. "It's pretty quick for something wearing steel armor, don'cha think?" Toriko commented while avoiding the bird's beak. The bird then flew up once more and used its wings to blow powerful winds forcing Toriko and Estevan to anchor themselves on the dirt, Annabel and the girls used Rachnera's web to hang onto the trees to keep themselves from being blown away also.
"Isn't there anything we can do, to bring this thing down?" Estevan asked glaring at the bird.
"What makes him so hard are those feathers that cover his whole body." Toriko explained while eying the steel-like feathers on the bird's body. "However, the fact that he goes as far as keeping himself covered with something so hard...means that what he's hiding inside is just that soft and delicious." He said with a grin and small drool escaping. Honestly what is it with him and food?
"You still going on about how it tastes?" Estevan asked him. "You do know I'm still pissed off at you for earlier."
"Look, I know what I did was a mistake and could've gotten your mom and housemates killed, for that I'm sorry, but we can worry about that after we get this guy. Deal?" Toriko said still feeling guilty for nearly getting the girls hurt, he may be a gluttonous eater but he wasn't a heartless man. After they get the bird he swore he would put the lives of others first, before his own needs.
Estevan still upset for putting his mom and housemates in danger for not fighting those bears, knew that he can't stay angry with him for long as it would get them no where. So he decided to bury the hatchet, for now anyways. "Alright. It's a deal."
This brought a smile to Toriko's lips then turned back at the Hungry-La Bird."But, ya know... With him flying around like that, we can't lay a hand on him."
"So we need to bring him down, huh?" Estevan questioned the Gourmet Hunter then stood on his feet with a look of determination. "Then leave it to me!" Body engulfed in flames Estevan jumps in the air using the flames to propel himself like a rocket, when he got close to the bird his fists were covered in fire and delivered a hail of burning punches.
The Hungry-La Bird let out pained cries as the fire fists left nothing but scorched feathers and skin. Then bring both his hand over head and clasping them together he brought his fist down on the bird sending it face first in the dirt. "Not bad." Toriko said when the large bird crash creating a dirt cloud. However the attack wasn't affect as the bird flew out of the dirt cloud and towards Toriko. However, the blue haired hunter only had a grin etched on his lip. "Hungry-La Bird. I'll show you my respect."
Everyone including Estevan who landed on his feet looked at Toriko with questionable expressions, just what does he mean by his respect? With a toothy grin Toriko spoke. "I'll let you see my human weaponry." Suddenly Toriko was surrounded by a reddish-pink aura and a large muscular demon appeared above him. The demon's skin was a dark red color, with long flowing white hair, two pointed ears, a wide toothy smile and two beady white eyes.
This left everyone stunned, Estevan was even more stunned to see another user of the intimidation demon, aside from him and Prism Estevan wasn't even sure if they're were others who can use it also. Toriko then struck both his hands and somehow made a metallic sound, which confused everyone within an earshot. Then placing his palms together the blue haired hunter closed his eyes and bowed his head. "I give my humble thanks to all the bounty this world provides."
The bird with it's claws wide open was dangerously closing in on the hunter. However this did not bother Toriko what so ever. "Thank you for the food!" Eyes snapping open Toriko let out a low but powerful shout slowly building up. Surrounded by the same aura his body suddenly began to bulk up.
His muscles from his legs expanded moving all the way to his arms, his left hand opened with his thumb tucked in and his four fingers curled like hooks as a faint image of a fork was seen over his hand. The same thing happened with his right hand except it was in a flat knife position as such an image of a knife was seen over his right hand.
'So that's what he meant by his human weaponry.' Estevan decided to stand by and see just what kind of attack Toriko plans to use on this bird.
"FORK!" Toriko shouted as he thrusts his left hand into the bird piercing through its body. Feathers flew off the large bird as everyone watched with awe struck faces. "KNIFE!" Using his right hand, Toriko sliced through the bird's body delivering the final blow.
"Amazing." Estevan mumble under his breath.
"Incredible." Miia said with amazement. While Papi watched on with stars in her eyes."SO COOL!" She exclaimed.
"That's Toriko for you." Komatsu grinned, leave it to Toriko to amaze others aside from him by using his natural hunting skills.
Toriko then struck his hands together making another metallic sound then placed his hand together and bowed. "Now that was a feast." The Hungry-La Bird lands on the ground creating a large dirt cloud. With the bird dead they can now relax and head back to the boat with fresh food. Looking over at Estevan Toriko was hoping that Estevan had forgiven him for his mistake earlier by showing him just how capable he is at fighting. Estevan wordlessly smiled and nodded at Toriko who in turn smiled back.
It was evening as the sun was staring to set, after killing the bird and bringing the body back to the others Komatsu and Annabel began to cut up and cook the bird. Once it was done everyone got together and began to eat after a day's work on the boat and fighting they deserved a break. The meat of the bird was like nothing they ever tasted, this meat was ten times better than the Barbecue Pig meat in ever taste.
Especially for Zombina who was gorging herself on the tasty bird meat. "This fragrance is indescribable," Toriko said looking over the meat. "and spreading below it, a marbled meat dripping with bouillon like that of top-quality wagyu beef...that melts the very instant it touches your tongue!" Toriko had a pleasant smile with closed eyes savoring the flavor. "It's just like some superb high-quality tuna with plenty of fat. S-So good!"
"Don't worry, there's plenty more coming." Annabel told them bring two leaves with more meat while Komatsu was pouring soup in a bowl.
"The soup's ready, too."
Tio gladly took a bowl of the soup and took a big whiff. "What a nice smell." She took a sip of the soup and recoiled with a large smile. "So good!"
"This stuff's the best!" Toriko said chewing the meat in his hands.
"Well, it's thanks to you guys that we've got plenty to eat, Toriko." Zombina said before taking a large bite of the tasty meat.
"Indeed we're entirely grateful for this food you've given us, Toriko-san. Arigatou!" Miya thanked the blue haired hunter who rubbed his head sheepishly.
"What're you talking about? It's thanks to you guys for being here that we can eat a Hungry-La Bird like this, Miya."
Annabel after grabbing a bowl of soup decided to ask Toriko a question. "Tell me something Toriko, as something as good as this, you'd put it in your Full Course Menu, right?"
"Hm, I dunno about that..." He said.
"But wasn't this the legendary ingredient you were looking for?" Haru asked him. Everyone couldn't help but agree with the raptor harpy. After all that he wasn't gonna add it to his Full Course Menu? Toriko however assured them of his reasoning. "Don't get me wrong. It's excellent, without a doubt. But there's still plenty more delicious things out there in the world. It's not a decision ya rush." Then he wrapped his arm around Estevan's neck and said. "Come on, let's eat our fill!"
This made Estevan smile. "Yeah!" Soon everyone was laughing and having a good time at this little picnic of theirs and soon it was night fall. While everyone was sitting around the bond fire telling stories or laughing at jokes Miia with an empty bowl in her hands slithered next to Komatsu. "Hey, Komatsu, could I have some more soup?"
"Ah, sure. Just a second." He reached inside his bag for something and pulled out a clear container with a yellow lid, and on that lid was a smaller one. The chef opened it to reveal white seeds."What's that?" Miia asked him curiously which he showed her. "These are Spice Seeds. I picked them up before. If you add these, they work as a spice and give the soup different additional flavors."
*Rustling*
The sound of the leaves suddenly caught their attention and saw dozens of small yellow eyes, glaring at them they barely had any time to scream when the shadows moved with lightning speed towards them. The container with the seeds fell and spilled out it's contents leaving the soup to boil unattended.
Back the bond fire the bones of the Hungry-La bird laid bare stripped of any meat as everyone were full from eating. "Man, I'm stuffed. If I eat anymore I'll die." Zombina said rubbing her stomach letting out a happy sigh.
"But aren't you already dead?" Doppel asked her teammate rhetorically.
"Mein gott, zhis vas an excellent meal, I have never had anything zhis good!" Alexis sighed blissfully from eating the bird.
"Gochisousama deshita." Miya and Kagura said in unison thanking for the meal in the traditional Japanese style. Papi, Mako, Suu, Jelli and Quess let out a belch from eating so much, while Cerea, Shaia, Cathyl, Maggie, Tsen, Keros and Serena finished their salad along with Mero, Airini and Aashi. Ryuko, Flay, Rachnera, Sabrina and Haru were relaxing after a big meal.
"That Hungry-La Bird was delicious!" Toriko exclaimed with a round pot belly once more.
"So you're really not putting the Hungry-La Bird on your Full Course?" Manako timidly asked Toriko.
While this went on Terry suddenly sensed something was wrong and was letting out a small snarl which was slowly growing to a growl. "Yeah, pretty sure." Is what Toriko said when he and everyone else heard Terry growling loudly. "What's wrong?" Toriko asked.
Estevan walked up to Terry and looked at the direction the wolf was facing. He suddenly got a very cold chill down his spine. 'I got a nasty feeling about this.' Looking at Terry Estevan said. "Show us what you see." The battlewolf did so and lead the fire user in the direction she was facing with everyone else in tow. Eventually they found the pot with the soup from earlier and the fire had died out, but noticed something wrong; Miia and Komatsu weren't there. Keros looked down and saw footprints, multiple footprints that almost look like hands. "What kind of animal leaves footprints like these?" The unicorn centaur asked.
Manako then smelled something in the air and started sniffing. "Something smells nice around here."
Toriko with his powerful heightened sense of smell was able to figure out what the mooneye smelled. "It's the smell of high-quality cocoa. These footprints, without a doubt, belong to Cocoalas." Now this was a real head turner. Was he serious? Koalas made of cocoa?
"Cocoalas?" Smith repeated.
"I've never really seen one before, but they're capture level 3. Their meat tastes bad; so they're inedible. But I heard they have top-class sweet cocoa beans growing on their backs." Toriko explained while looking back at the footprints.
Suddenly the air was heating up everyone turned and saw Esetvan with eyes overshadowed and a rage aura engulfing him, the air around him was becoming so hot they backed away from him as steam and smoke was rising from his being and the grown was starting to melt from the increasing rise in temperature. "So...what you're saying is,, that Miia was taken by some group of koala bears with cocoa beans on them?" Estevan asked in an eerily calm voice.
Then the aura explodes forcing everyone to back away and what they could see is that his red eyes were slowly turning white-hot his skin slowly turning a darker shade of red. "If they so much as touch Miia in a way I don't like, then they will BURN!" Estevan's snarling voice was changing from human to almost demonic.
The girls in their time living with him have seen him angry before, but never had they seen him this angry before. And to be honest it was scaring them.
Before things could go out of hand Annabel was able to get close to him despite the heat, and placed her hands on both sides of his face. "Estevan, sweetie it's ok. Nothing's going to happen to Miia, we can still save her but you have to calm down." She spoke with the same motherly, soothing voice. "So please honey. Calm down, don't let the fires consume you. Please...calm down." Her words seemed to break through him as his skin was returning to normal, the aura surrounding him was dying and his white eyes returned to a calm orange-red color.
Estevan was panting heavily trying to control his anger, the sheer thought of anything bad happening to Miia brought painful memories to him and he didn't want a repeat of what happened years ago. And the fact that she and the others were almost taken from him because of Prism, he swore that no one, neither man nor beast will ever take his girls away. Ever!
Letting out a much need breath Estevan looked into his mother's chestnut eyes and seeing the love and peace in them. Smiling he nodded. "Thanks mom, and sorry about earlier." Looking over to Toriko the Gourmet Hunter nodded and went on ahead following the trail of the Cocoalas. Smith had sent both Zombina and Tio along for extra help while the rest stayed behind. Along the way Toriko had told them that the Cocoalas make their home near trees called a Multitude Fruit Trees. A fruit tree that is said to have all the different flavors of every fruit known to man, thus it was given the nickname "Fruit Parlor of the Earth."
The only reason why the Cocoalas took Miia and Komatsu was because their omnivorous, they'll store anything away as food which meant Miia and Komatsu will become food if they don't hurry! Toriko mentioned that the Multitude Fruit Trees tend to grow at a location that gets the most sunlight. Soon they saw a tall mountain and at the top were to trees with large fruit. No doubt about it, that's where those Cocoalas are heading, and they need to get their fast!
As they were running they came upon an open field and before they knew it dark brown water started to erupt from the ground. From what they found out it was a geyrser field, they were hit by the hot fluids only to later discover that it was water it was chocolates, hot chocolate! a chocolate geyser field if they had to guess. Then a really big one erupted sending them flying and having them land in a river and for some strange reason it was white.
They soon found out it was a whipped cream river. While it did taste good they still had a job to do. Estevan grabbed the edge of the rocky ground and climbed out while holding onto a thread line made by Rachnera and used it to haul everyone out of the river. "Once we get through this forest, we'll arrive at the Multitude Fruits." Toriko said after looking at the mountain.
Then Estevan heard a deep growling sound coming from the forest. Out of the shadows came a car sized lion with a mane made of castella instead of hair. Toriko had told them that it was a Caste Leo, a capture level 4 beast.
Caste Leo [mammal beast] capture level 4.
When they fought the lion they found out it used an actual sound shockwave, Toriko had Zombina and Tio distract it by running straight for it. They took the shockwave bying Toriko enough time to use a move he called The Spiked Punch. When he used it on the lion he said his punch was like hammering a nail which meant his punch was similar. However they saw five more Caste Leo but these ones were of larger size than the one they fought. Since these lions were like pack hunters they would send the smaller member first before the rest moved in. They Caste Leos were closing until...
"Spatula!"
A shout was heard from above and a flat yellow object flew in and struck two of the Caste Leos sending them flying back. This left everyone including the lions shocked, they looked up and to everyone's surprise excluding Toriko they saw a tall, 24-year-old man with a very effeminate appearance. He wears a pink shirt, covering it with a navy vest, while his bottom outfit is the same color as his shirt. His face has sharp, defined features, making him rather attractive, if not pretty. His hair is long, flows downwards and is colored white, blue, green and pink strands of hair. "What a beautiful way to appear." The man spoke in a somewhat flamboyant voice.
"Sunny!" Toriko exclaimed. The man Sunny simply grinned and flicked his hair back. One of the Caste Leos was about to attack when...
"Poison Rifle!"
Another shout was heard and something struck the lion as purple clouds were seen and suddenly the lion froze as if it was paralyzed.
"Endorphin Smoke!"
A third shout was heard this time a woman's voice as white smoke filled the area surrounding them and then the Caste Leos suddenly fell asleep. "Now what's this?!" Flay asked in bewilderment. Then two more people landed before them.
The first one was a very tall, muscular 27 year old man with a striking face. He has black hair the style of which fluctuates frequently; it is straight naturally and choppy and fluffy when cut short, he has prominent sideburns running down to the angles of his jaws, and short bushy eyebrows. He has piercing brown eyes and wears an all black suit with green bands wrapping around it at the wrists, elbows, waist, neck and an additional one on top of his head. On his turban he wears a purple pin in the shape of the letter "P". His ears are pierced; his right ear sports gold stud in the lobe and what is either two purple studs or an industrial piercing in the scapha, and in his left ear is a single gauged plug from which dangles a fuchsia chain that attaches to a clasp worn on the helix of the same ear.
Beside him is a light skinned girl with short black and blue eyes. She wears a red gi top with green boarders and no sleeves and a pair of short tights. She had large thighs with a scarf on the left one. She also has a single scar on the right side of her face
"Hey, Toriko." The man greeted.
This brought a wide grin on Toriko's face. "Coco! Rin!" The man Coco simply waved at his old friend while the girl Rin placed both her hands over her mouth and almost got teary eyed. "Toriko, I'm so glade you're safe!" Rin said with a blush forming on her face.
"I take it, these three are the friends, you mentioned, Toriko?" Estevan asked.
"Well, sorta. Say, why are you guys here?" He asked them bewildered at their sudden arrival.
"We heard from Tom that you'd departed to go capture the Hungry-La Bird." Coco explained to his friend. "So we came here to tell you the secrets of the Hungry-La Island-"
"Anyway, you're so mean to leave me behind!" Rin interrupted Coco by getting all gushy with Toriko. "Searching across this island was really hard! It was totally frustrating!" She chides him for not bringing her along. Coco then took notice of Estevan and the others, and was a little surprised to see humans with animal like traits except for Zombina cause of her stitches and different skin color and Tio for her height and black horn.
"Speaking of which... Where's Komatsu?" He asked Toriko after noticing that Komatsu wasn't with the blue haired hunter.
"Well, he got carried off by Cocoalas." Toriko bluntly answered him.
"What?!" Coco gasped.
Cerea then walked next to him and said. "Komatsu wasn't the only one taken, one of our friends was taken also." Her speaking is what caught both Rin and Sunny's attention and both were stunned to see a horse-woman.
"Is that woman half horse... incredible!" Sunny exclaimed with awe to see someone like Cerea.
However none of them could say anything as the Caste Leos were waking up from their nap, and they were growling angrily at the humans for putting them to sleep. "Damn. They got back up." Toriko groaned.
Snarling angrily Estevan leaped in front of the group brought his left hand back glowing red with fire and waved his hand with enough force to send fire at the lions causing them to fly back. "We don't have time for this! We have to hurry, and save Miia!" He shouted eyes burning red with the desire to save Miia once again, he nearly lost her before and he'll be damned if he's going to loose her now.
"Beautiful." Sunny spoke touched by the strong words of the fire user, for wanting to save his friend with a literal burning passion, was enough to move the long haired man. "Care for your friends. To save the fare damsel in distress. That is more beautiful than anything." Sunny looks over at Toriko. "Toriko, leave this to us. Get Komatsu."
"We'll be alright by ourselves." Rin assured him agreeing with Sunny.
"You guys..." Is all what Toriko said.
Turning to Estevan Coco told him. "Now, you all must hurry, too!" He didn't needed to be told twice. Giving their thanks, Estevan along with the girls and Toriko and Terry went on to save Komatsu and Miia, leaving Rin, Coco and Sunny to face the Caste Leos alone.
Up ahead as they were running Toriko had this puzzled yet troubled look which was noticed by Estevan. "Something on your mind, Toriko?"
"Nothing... I was just wonderin why the Caste Leos didn't attack the Cocoalas which have lower capture levels than them. " Toriko stated. "If they got to the mountain top, then that means the Cocoalas had to pass through those Caste Leos' area. Unable to move quickly while holding Miia and Komatsu, they'd be an ideal prey for the Caste Leos. But their stomachs were empty. There must be some reason why they didn't eat the Cocoalas." Then he had this uneasy smile on his lips. "I've got a bad feeling about this."
This was more than enough to double Estevan's efforts to get Miia, before whatever scared those Caste Leos off gets her too.
At the mountain top Miia was struggling to break free from the Cocoalas that were holding her. The creatures looked just like a Koala bear however they were about the size of a midget with eight large coco beans on their backs. While Komatsu was being carried by one Cocoala, Miia was being carried by a good number of them in order to hold her serpentine body. Which her struggling was proving a little taxing for them.
"Let me go! Let me go, you monster koalas!" Miia exclaimed angrily at them trying to break her tail free so she can whip and crush them for putting their paws on her. Only her Darling can put his hands on her. "When my Darling comes and finds me, you guys are so gonna be in big trouble!"
Komatsu was able to look up and gasp. "Those are... Multitude Fruites!" He said with a beaming smile. "I-It's the first time I've ever seen any! I'm awestruck!" His little joy of seeing the large fruit cause Miia to stop her struggle and cast a 'are you serious?!' look. "I wonder what they taste like... I wonder how I can cook them to bring out the raw ingredient's taste..."
At this point Miia had an angry scowly and red tic mark on her head. "Would you please that this situation we're in a little more seriously?!"
Suddenly the Cocoalas looked up at the trees which made Miia and Komatsu uneasy when they saw three large finger with black claws appearing over the bark of the tree. And what they saw made their eyes widen with fear as a very, very large Cocoala came into view, unlike its smaller kin this one was muscular and roughly the size of a small house. The giant koala loomed over the terrified duo with its teeth bared.
About halfway to the mountain Estevan and the others continued to run for it when suddenly...
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
The frighten cries of both Miia and Komatsu were heard. Hearing Miia's cries of fears nearly stopped Estevan's heart, his eyes widened with fear, fear for Miia's life. "That was Miia!" Flames erupting from his body Estevan took off like a rocket, leaving the others behind. "Estevan, wait!" Annabel called out to her son but he already made it to the mountain top.
"MIIIIAAAA!"
His shouts were heard through the sky as he landed at the lip of the mountain. Eventually Toriko, Annabel and the other caught up only to freeze when they saw the pack of the Cocoalas, and the gigantic Cocoala. "Holy shit!" Sabrina and Ryuko cursed at the sight of the beast.
"T-Tis impossible! Is that beast, really a koala?" Shaia said slightly trembling at the size of the creature.
"Hoowee! Now there's something you don't see everyday." Cathyl gaped at the giant koala bear.
Estevan however was not intimidated his burning eyes scanned the area for Miia but couldn't find her. "DARLING!" Hearing Miia once again he looked up and saw that both Miia and Komatsu were with the koala in it's pouch. "DARLING, HELP ME!" Miia screamed with her hand outstretched.
"Toriko! Help!" Komatsu screamed for his friend. Seeing Miia in the beast's clutches Estevan let out an angry growl wanting nothing more than to rescue Miia and to burn the creature alive! Toriko stood there wide eyed. "That's...a Knock-Out Koala!" He said aloud gaining everyone's attention, save for Estevan who was glaring heated daggers at the koala. " So she's the boss?"
Knock-Out Koala [marsupial beast] capture level 5.
The Knock-Out Koala let out a deep bellowing roar, angry to see intruders in it's territory. "I heard that when Cocoalas grow to adulthood, they become Knock-Out Koalas, but... I've never heard of a Knock-Out Koala this big."
Shaia turns to Toriko and asked. "Sir Toriko, if those Cocoalas are capture level 3, then what capture level is this beast?"
"If I had to gues, judging from it's size I'd say its a capture level 5 at least."
This left everyone stunned. So far they only encounted creatures with capture levels 1 thru 4, but never came across a capture level 5 beast in their time on the island. If what he told them about the higher the capture levels are true, then they're in for the fight of their lives.
"Now I get why the Caste Leos didn't attack the Cocoalas. They were afraid of the Cocoala boss, the Knock-Out Koala." The Knock-Out Koala let out another roar which made the smaller koalas stand on their hind legs with teeth and claws bared. Toriko only had a toothy grin. "Looks like they've shown their true nature." The giant koala roared once more which acted like a signal as its smaller kin charged at the intruders.
Estevan jumps in the air and fires multiple fire balls at the Cocoalas. Explosions were heard and smoke rising as many of the Cocoalas were sent flying everywhere. Estevan lands on the ground and plows through the Cocoala pack and racing to get Miia. Toriko soon joined in along with the others. The girls along with Tio and Zombina said they'd hold of the pack while Estevan and Toriko went to save Komatsu and Miia.
Estevan paid no attention to anything around him. All he was more focused on was saving Miia, any Cocoala who tried to jump him either got punched or got seriously burned. Toriko took the lead and jumps at the koala for a punch by the giant koala easily swats him like he was a fly. Estevan leaps in the air and fired his Hellfire breath but the koala jumps over it, spins and backhanded him into the ground. "Darling!" Miia called out worried for Estevan.
But the fire user merely rolled on all four looks at the koala, who was jumping in between the trees. Almost like it was mocking him, laughing at him. Then it swung around from tree to tree until it slams its right paw which hits the ground as Toriko and Estevan jumps out of the way. The Knock-Out Koala rears its left arm back and tries to swipe them using its momentum to swing around and swipe the fire user into the air and punches him.
"Estevan!" Toriko shouted when he saw Estevan flying at the wall of the koala's nest. Then he saw the koala clasping its paws together and brought them down on him, fortunately the Gourmet Hunter caught them in time but the strength of th beast was making him sink as to craters from his feet become one whole crater. With a burst of strength Toriko was able to move the beast's paws and forced it to hit the ground.
Erupting from the stone wall Estevan flew towards the koala with a large fire ball in hand. He would've fired it had the koala not stood up and presenting Miia and Komatsu. This made him halt his attack, if he fired he would've hit Miia and Komatus! Taking full advantage the Knock-Out Koala swings its left fist down sending him crashing back into the dirt.
Running up on the Multitude Fruit Tree Toriko brought his right hand back. Getting behind the koala he shouted. "KNIFE!" And fired his knife attack but failed as the koala swings around and moved further up the tree.
On the ground Estevan was covered in dirt and rcok, steam and smoke coming from his body. The way that damned animal used Miia like a living shield, made his blood boil like white hot lava. His anger was rising and rising with every second. His body was trembling with rage, he was going to make that pure excuse of a koala bear pay, and it'll pay in blood!
Toriko watched as the Knock-Out Koala was swinging around at the base of the tree with the large red fruit, he was waiting for an opening to strike without hitting Komatsu and Miia when the koala swung around, right claw raised and swings down slashing the Gourmet Hunter destroying his shirt and jacket, and blood gushing out of his wound. The blue haired hunter let out cries of pain as the force of the attack sent him falling back.
Toriko groaned holding his bleeding chest and glaring at the koala. The Knock-Out Koala was about to strike him again when suddenly two red-white lights zoom by and struck the creatures paw. The Knock-Out Koala let out a pain filled roar as it held its burning, smoking paw. The two lights that struck the koala continued flying and then they were facing upward flying into the sky above.
Back at the camp site everyone could hear the roars of the Knock-out koala, then they saw the two beams of light coming from the mountain top, and went upwards into the sky. The beams then vanished which left them confused. Just what was going on up there? Then without warning something erupted from the mountain.
BOOOOMMMMM!
They saw a pillar of fire rising into the sky burning bright and twisting around like a tornado. "Holy shit, what the hell is that?!" Mako exclaimed seeing the pillar of fire lighting up the night sky. Smith stared at the pillar of fire with a hard face, she knew something was going on up there, but what?
Turning to Mako she told him. "Mako you watch Papi, Mako, Suu, Jelli, Quess, Mero, Airini and Aashi, while those of us who can make the journey head for the mountain. Understand?" The boatman looked at the coordinator with an uneasy face. He didn't know what was going on up there and wasn't sure if it was safe for anyone to go up there. But reluctantly he nodded and kept the girls in question with him while Smith and the others ran straight for the mountain.
The pillar of fire was forcing everyone to shield themselves from the intense heat as did the Cocoalas as they backed away from the fires, the Knock-out Koala was using the tree to shield itself from the heat. Toriko only got onto one knee as he watched in awe as the fire pillar was dying down. Then the two red lights from earlier flew out and struck the two sides of the pouch which freed Miia and Komatsu.
Toriko quickly moved in to grab Komatsu and before he could try to get Miia a shadowed figure zoomed by and grabbed her. Miia with her eyes close was trembling from almost falling to her death when she felt something wrapping their arms around her and enveloping her in warmth. Opening her eyes she looked up and gasped at who saved her. "D-Darling?" Estevan wordlessly let her go, stood up and faced the koala however his appearance had changed dramatically.
His skin was now a darker shade of red, his burning skin patches were now burning white as was his hair. His eyes were the hottest white color they ever saw, and what they saw was that his mouth was glowing as well. Slightly hunched over Estevan was slowly walking towards the koala panting lowly. But the way his panting sounded it sounded like it was...distorted. Taking a deep breath he let out a loud, animalistic roar that shook everyone at the core.
Then with speed unknown to anyone Estevan vanished in thin air and reappeared before the giant koala and delivered a savage right roundhouse kick. The force of the kick was enough to send shockwaves throughout the air, forcing everyone to brace themselves. The Knock-Out Koala howled in anger when it caught the root of the tree and swung around to attack but it missed when Estevan vanished at inhuman speed and reappeared behind it.
His eyes glowed brighter than before, flames coming out of the corners and then two beams of light erupted from his eyes. In all his years of living Estevan never had any other powers aside from his Hellfire breath and ki-based fire attacks, it would seem that in his anger he had gained a new power; laser vision. The twin lasers almost struck the koala when suddenly to everyone's shock and awe they turned left, went straight then right and struck the koala's chest. This made everyone's jaws drop, Estevan had actually made the lasers turn to the direction he wanted them to hit!
The Knock-Out Koala roared as the twin laser burned away its fur and skin which allowed Estevan the chance to axe kick it behind the head sending crashing on the rocky ground. The giant koala roared in fury as it looked for the one who dared attack it. That was when Estevan appeared beside it and kicked its face, then reappeared one more and punched its snout. Toriko, Annabel, Miia and the others only watched on as the fire user moved at blinding speed and struck the Knock-Out Koala over and over again.
The Knock-Out Koala felt the hard punches and kicks from the fiery human, but its fury only rose to great heights. Letting out a loud roar the koala actually struck Estevan sending him flying at the rocky wall of its territory. But Estevan realigned himself and landed on his feet creating a crater on the wall. Glaring white-hot daggers at the giant marsupial Estevan snarled and gathered two balls of fire in his hands, he then started squeezing them like he was going to crush them. Instead they extended and became fire-like whips.
The fire user then charges for the koala and lashed out his fire whips striking the beast and sending waves of fire. The Knock-out Koala tried its best to block the whips but in doing so only burned itself, leaving only scorched fur and skin. Estevan then swung his whips at the creature this time wrapping its arms in their grasp. Lumping high in the air Estevan pulls on the whips which pulled him towards the koala, when he got close he double kicked its face, lands on his feet and with a burst of strength used the whips and throws the Knock-Out Koala face first into the rocky wall.
The others could on as Estevan was savagely beating the koala, while the others looked on with amazement some of them, namely Miia and Annabel had the look of worry in their eyes. They knew he can get violent when he wanted to, but they never seen him this violent before.
The dazed koala wobbly turned and faced the burning human, almost all of its fur was gone, angry burn marks and burnt fur riddled its body and one or two of the coco beans on its back were gone. Decing to finish this Estevan swings his whips upward sending the koala high in the sky, and then jumps after it. Once he was face to face with the Knock-Out Koala Estevan pulls the whips off the koala brought his hands together and created a large white ball of fire.
Letting out a mighty roar Estevan thrusts his hand out and fired the white fire ball, a loud and violent explosion was heard and the pained roars of koala echoed through the air. The creature beaten and burned fell from the sky and crashed into a round mountain, the Knock-Out Koala the strongest creature of Hungry-La Island was defeated.
Estevan landed on the mountain in front of the others, his distorted breathing was heared and then let out another animalistic roar which echoed all over the island. It was loud and powerful enough to have many of the creatures run and hide in terror. With their leader beaten the Cocoalas retreated and ran far away from this burning monster. After finishing his roar Estevan turned his white gaze at the others which made them tense up, not sure if he would mistake them for enemies and attack.
Miia however slithered her way to him ignoring the calls of protest from the others and stopped in front of the man who saved her. Snake-like amber eyes met white-hot eyes as the two gazed at one another. The lamia then gave a soft smile and placed both her hands on the sides of his face, not feeling the intense heat but rather a nice, comforting warmth.
"Darling," Miia said softly caressing his face. "It's ok. You've won, I'm alright now. I'm safe, you can calm down now, ok? So just, please, calm down...Darling."
Her soft spoken words had gotten through to him as his dark red skin faded back to normal. His hair changed back to its dark brown color, the burning skin changed back from white to red. And his white-hot eyes turned back to orange-red. Feeling exhausted Estevan almost collapsed but Miia caught him and stroke his hair to comfort him.
Estevan slowly stood up and stared deeply into Miia's eyes. "Miia..." This scene brought beaming smiles on everyone's lips including Toriko, Komatsu and Terry were happy to see the lamia safe and back with her family. This moment was broken when they felt rumbling from the mountain and the Multitude Fruit Trees were wobbling around. "What the?! Why're they acting all wobbly?" Sabrina asked rubbing the back of her head.
"Darling-kun!"
Estevan perked up when he heard Smith calling out, he turned and saw Smith and everyone else save for the two harpies, three slime girls and three mermaids who stayed with Mako. "Huh, Smith?!"
"Hey, this is really something!" Everyone heard Sunny's voice at the lip of the mountain and saw him along with Coco and Rin arriving from fighting the Caste Leos. The rumbling from the mountain was increasing and everyone who're present tried to keep their balance.
"Everyone, get off the mountain, now!" Toriko shouts as he was running from the tree, they didn't need to be told twice for they knew that the mountain was about to erupt!
After running away from the mountain they all watched from a distance as the top of the mountain exploded and the Multitude Fruit Tree were sent flying in the air. For some wild reason the lava that was spewing out of the volcano, was a light brown color. Why is it brown instead of red?
"The island's true form has appeared." Coco spoke gaining confused gazes from Toriko, Estevan and the non-humans. The island's 'true' form? What did he mean?
"True form?" Toriko asked his old-time friend.
Turning to Toriko Coco began to explain. "I told you that we came here to tell you the secret of Hungry-La Island, didn't I?"
"Yeah."
As the volcano was still erupting something else began to happen. The rocky surface of the mountain began to fall off, revealing a milky-white surface and the brown lava was spreading from the top. Then the sky was raining brown blobs of lava everywhere, they all did their best to dodge it when Mako got a face full of the stuff. The poor boatman was crying out from the burning sensation on his face.
"Mr. Mako, are you ok?" Mero asked him when suddenly he stopped screaming and wiped his face which was surprisingly still intact.
Sniffing the so-called lava he licked the stuff of his finger and gaped. "This isn't lava, it's sweet!"
Tio wiped some of it off her cheek and tasted it and her eyes widened and a wide beaming smile was etched on her lips. "Yummy! This stuff is caramel!" She exclaimed and went back to licking her fingers.
"What?!" Toriko exclaimed with a wide grin, wiped some of it off Tio's cheek and took a small lick. "It's true. What's going on here?" He asked Coco.
"Since ancient times, the legend of the Hungry-La Bird has been chronicled in many different documents. The pioneers transcribed those documents and it has been continually passed down until the legend took its present form."
"That's why I went on what the legend from the document said. I found this island and captured that phantom ingredient, the Hungry-La Bird." Toriko told him already knowing all about the documents he heard.
But Sunny interjected. "But the truth is that the phantom ingredient wasn't the Hungry-La Bird." Now this got everyone confused. If the bird itself wasn't the phantom ingredient then what is?
Fortunately Rin decided to fill in. "You see, the characters for "bird" and "island" are similar. It seems the person who transcribed it wrote it incorrectly and so it's read wrong." This tidbit of info brought a surprised look on Toriko's face as he was putting the pieces together.
"Then, the phantom ingredient is...not the Hungry-La Bird. It's the Hungry-La Island itself?!"
This certainly made Estevan and his friends slack-jawed, they were saying that the whole island was the phantom ingredient all along?!
The sudden cries of a familiar bird were heard as they saw a flock of Hunry-La Birds flying back to the island. Many of the creatures on the island were coming out from hind as if to celebrate the island's form for returning.
"No wonder the Hungry-La Bird made such a weak impact." Toriko said. Then something caught the eyes of the hunters, humans and non-humans. It was the Multitude Fruit Trees that were shot into the sky earlier were falling down to earth upside down. The leaves of the trees peeled away and to the shock of Estevan, Annabel, Miia, Smith and the others the Multitude Fruit Trees looked just like...
"Is that a giant cheery?!" Ryuko, Doppel, Zombina, Sabrina and Shaia exclaimed in disbelief as the giant cheery landed on the mountain.
"The island itself is the phantom ingredient, a natural pudding a la mode!" Toriko said with a beaming smile while Estevan and the others were in total disbelief, and only had one thing to say.
"EEEEEEEHHHHHHHH!"
The island that was once full of trees and rocky mountains was now replaced with giant fruits such as a slice of melon, five lemon slices, on kiwi fruit sliced into two pieces. The mountain that the Knock-Out Koala crashed into turned into a giant ball shaped vanilla ice cream, one partially peeled and cut banana and partially skinned strawberry, two wafers, and a giant red and white spiral cone candy, with the mountain that the cheery sat on turned into a giant mountain of pudding!
"You mean to tell us, that this whole damn island, is a giant ass pudding a la mode?" Estevan asked Toriko in sheer disbelief. When Toriko had told them that everything in the Gourmet Age was edible, they didn't think that also included island being turned into giant food!
Toriko gave the biggest grin he had to the awestruck fire user. "That's right. Now let's head for the Multitude Fruit, I've been wanting to try it all day!" The excited blue haired hunter raced off for the giant cheery like a kid in a candy store.
Looking back to his mother, housemates and coordinator they merely shrugged as did he and followed the eager Gourmet Hunter also wanting to try this fruit parlor of the earth, even the meat eaters of his family wanted to try out for once. Upon reaching the cheery Toriko used his hand like a natural knife and easily cut through the surface of the fruit. When he did they could swore they saw the fruit literally sparkling like stars!
Estevan and Annabel had given a piece of fruit to each of the girls, who're excited to try it. Then as one with Toriko they all took a bite of the fruit and when they did the flavors of the fruit exploded in their mouth as their eyes became wider than ever before. The taste, sweet mother of God the taste was so good! It was like nothing they ever tasted before, the fruits they had back home was nothing in comparison to this!
"SSSSSOOOOOOO GOOOOOOODDDDDD!"
The collective cries of pleasure echoed the mountain top as the flavors of the fruit brought tears into the eyes of Estevan, Annabel, Miia, Papi, Cera, Suu, Mero, Rachnera, Kagura, Ryuko, Shaia, Tsen, Serena, Keros, Cathyl, Maggie, Flay, Miya, Alexis, Sabrina, Airini, Aashi, Mako, Haru, Jelli and Quess. They continued gorging themselves into the fruit wanting more and more of it!
Smith and her squad along with Mako were chewing the delicious fruit savoring the flavors of the mixture of different fruits in one.
"It's like a multitude of fruits condensed into this one magnificent sweetness!" Toriko beamed with happiness and delight. "So this is Multitude Fruit?! It really is the Fruit Parlor of the Earth!"
Soon everyone began to eat and eat everything on the island like a plague of locusts. Hours went by until it was afternoon and by then everything on the island was completely gone. They ate everything that was edible on the island, they were lying on the ground bellies stuffed with all the delicious food the island had provided them.
"So, after eating the entire island like pigs, and in the end Toriko's not putting it on his Full Course, huh?" Smith asked looking down at Estevan and Toriko.
"Yeah, well, the world's a big place after all." He told the coordinator.
During their eating fest Mako who got full earlier had meet up with another of Toriko's friends, Tom. Tom is a tall and muscular dark-skinned man with untamed black hair who is commonly seen wearing white pants and a white shirt with an oriental dragon design on the back. He was wearing a yellow cap with the words "GOURMET" printed on it and a pair of pink-rimmed sunglasses with purple lenses. Another notable feature is a long scar running down his left eye.
After putting the finishing touches Tom and Mako were able to get the ship into the ocean. "I can't thank you enough, for helping me with my boat Tom." Mako thanked the shipman who grinned.
"Eh, it's no biggie. After Toriko told me your guys' ship need some repairs, I thought I lend you a hand." the two shipmen shook hands and went back to prepare their ships for departure for when their friends were ready.
"So, Estevan, if you guys do find that storm and get back to your world, you planning on going to that Caribbean place you told me about?" Toriko asked.
"Well, that was the general idea, but after everything that went on today, the moment we find that storm and get back we're splitting for home in Japan." Estevan told the blue haired hunter. "After all today turned out to be one crazy as vacation!" He started laughing and then Toriko joined in.
Soon the laugh died down and a small frown was seen on Toriko. "Well. I guess, this is goodbye, right?"
This made everyone within earshot sad a little, after arriving on the island and meeting Toriko and his group, they al had one grand adventure they'll never forget. But the fact that they come from two different worlds was a little heartbreaking. The silence hung in the air until Papi had an idea. "Hey, you guys!" She called out getting everyone's attention. "If we're leaving and might never see each other again, how 'bout we take pictures to remember each other, that way we won't forget the friends we've made for when we get home!"
Now this brought a smile to everyone's faces. "Papi. That's a rather smart idea you have there." Haru commented smiling at her harpy sister.
After getting a camera set up and putting a timer on Estevan raced back to the others and stood next to Miia, with Toriko and Rin beside them. "Ok everyone. Ready? Say Gourmet!"
"GOURMET!"
*Click*
After taking the picture Toriko stared down his new fiery friend sharing their last words together. "After coming here to the island, and meeting you guys, I have to say. I had a rather fun time here. Thanks, man."
Estevan smiled back. "Hey, same to you, you blue haired glutton."
Both men clasped each other's hands and shook. "Who knows, if you guys end up here, or me and Komatsu end up in your world, I'll treat you and your family to my lifetime Full Course." Toriko swore which earned him a grin from the fire user.
"I'll hold you to that. Until then, goodbye Toriko."
With that Estevan got on the boat and started sailing off he and everyone on the boat shouting their goodbyes to all the new friends they've made and Toriko and his group waved and shouted their goodbye and Terry howling farewell to them. They kept sailing and sailing until the island was no longer in site. It was probably the last time They'll ever see Toriko, Komatsu, Terry, Rin, Coco and Sunny again. Eventually they found the same storm that brought them to the islan and this time they were prepared. Estevan used his newly acquired laser vision on the storm clouds and the result was the same as before. This time it brought them back into the ocean they all recognized.
However like Estevan told Toriko, the moment they found the storm and got back to their world they would head back home in Japan, and that's what they intend to their journey home Estevan was relaxing on a loung chair with Miia snuggling next to him listening to his heart beat.
"Darling, I wanted to thank you. For saving me again, I mean." She told him.
"I know. But in all honesty, when those koalas took you I was scared. Scared of loosing you." He said with a slight trembling voice. "After you and the others were almost taken by Prism I thought the same thing would've happen to you on Hungry-La Island. I already lost my family, I didn't want to loose you too." Estevan felt Miia's hand on his face again as she stared deeply into his eyes assuring him that she was still there for him.
"It's ok Darling, I'm here. You won't loose me, because I know you'll protect me and the others. Because that's what I love about you, I love you...Darling." Miia then placed her lips on his and kissed him and he kissed her back.
Annabel watched from her chair not wanting to ruin her son's moment of peace with the girl he fought to save. And surprisingly the other girls decided to let them be decided that they needed this moment for as long as possible. But when they get back home she had a feeling that things will get a little chaotic. Yes today truly was an everyday adventure with monster girls, butthis time it was an everyday adventure with a Gourmet Hunter.
The whole theater erupted with cheers as the whol cast of the story appeared for the last time. " Well thanks for joining us today for this special crossover you guy."
" Goodnight and happy Halloween everybody!" Estevan, Toriko and Miia shouted. With that the curtains closed and everyone shouted and cheered as the lights went dark.
Finally after almost a whole month, I finally got my crossover special chapter up. Now with this chapter done I'm gonna take a long break as I ordered four books weeks ago from a series called the Jack Silger saga, I'm been working on this chapter because not only I wanted to read the books but also my friend as well as brother Joshua Martin aka GodzillaFollower1998's birthday was October 9th. It already passed so I'm making this chapter as a late birthday gift as well as a Halloween gift. I hope you like it Josh. Happy birthday and happy Halloween my brother.
Look forward to my next story I'm working on Attack on Kaiju. Until then take care and have a happy Halloween!
