Hello my fellow Toriko fans It's a me a CreationsChimera! And welcome to the next installment of my story The Ultimate Combo.
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I am writing with this with a broken hand so bare with me.
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Chapter 2- There is life even in Darkness
When we last left our hero's they had just been given a quest form Gourmet National Treasure Setusuno to obtain the Century Soup!
Since that point much has happened.
Toriko and Komatsu went to find information about where the soup was and ended up in a bar filled with various other Bishokuya. After receiving the information that the client Setsuno would be there shortly, They find that the client is in fact one of the wealthiest men on the planet, Colonei Mokkoi, who tells them their destination is Ice Hell a vast frozen continent so cold setting foot on it is a suicide wish.
Mokkoi then says that he will take everyone who wants to on the quest but will only pay if they brought back the soup..
So our hero's got on Mokkoi's ship and set sail with a small army of Bishokyua. Mokkoi provided them thermal suits so as to aid them somehow.
Upon reaching Ice hell Toriko and Komatsu are the first on the ice continent but they are joined by a man named Match, who is the second in command of the Gourmet Mafia, and his lackeys, Also along for the ride is Takimaru who is a member of the Gourmet Knights.
Each had explained their reason for wanting the soup.
Match wants it so he could give it to the children of his city who all live in severe poverty. His lackeys, who turned out to be Match's friends, want to help Match since he helped them when they were younger
Takimaru was a little more reluctant but said he needed the money in order to obtain medicine for someone.
Toriko inquired the knight's code to use only Natural remedies.
Takimaru continued by explaining about a place called Life. It is a country known to have a wide selection of all natural medicines.
With the explanations out of the way they continued on to the Gourmet Show Window, which is a massive ice sickle that has a vast amount of different ingredients stored inside of it. Every century thermal vents melt some of the ice into a clear pool of liquid.
But before they could enter they had company in the form of a cute little pink penguin whom took a shine to Komatsu and vice versa.
Sadly this happiness was cut short by an intense power spike that put Toriko on edge as he shouted "Everyone run!"
But it was too late as the source of the power showed up in the form of three people. It was revealed that the power came from the Sous chef of The Bishokai(Gourmet Corporation) Tommyrod! Who used his control over insects to force Toriko away so they could fight.
Along with another of the Fifth branch chefs Bogie Woods, He has approximately 4,000 bones and 4,600 joints, which he can easily detach and manipulate, allowing him great mobility and flexibility. He uses this quirk for his Lodge, a technique which allows him to replace the bones and inhabit another creature, assuming its form. this also makes him nearly impossible to bind. Even if his bones are broken and removed, he can manipulate the rest to compensate for it immediately, barring the sacrum. Takimaru fought him and managed to defeat him by literally knocking his sancrum out of his body.
Finally Match was ironically matched up against Barrygamon the fourth branch head. Barrygamon's massive body grants him great strength and durability. However, he is uncannily fast and agile as well, being able to fight on the ice and surprising his opponents with his movements. He appears to possess a remarkable amount of stamina, since he fought against four yakuza members without breaking a sweat, until he was cut down by Match with one slash.
All the while this was going on Komatsu was entrustedto retrieve the Century Soup While Toriko and the others held of the Bishokai. Komatsu did his best and eventually found Tina, The Gourmet reporter, along with Zonge, a wannabe that thinks life's a game….Literally, and his lackeys.
Later on they were introduced to the Saisayer, someone who makes it their business to revive extinct or near extinct ingredients, named Teppai. Teppai explained that the Gourmet Show Window was basically dry and would be unable to produce Century soup after this time that was if there was any left anyway.
Teppai then said that he was going to aid Toriko and left.
After Teppai left Komatsu and Tina decided to see for themselves if that was in fact the end of the soup.
The only problem being that when they walked down the tunnel leading to the base of the Gourmet Show Window only with all the shaking that the battle above was causing they looked up and Komatsu shouted "LOOK OUT!" with that he and Tina both jumped out of the way and were separated by the ice.
This is where our story begins.
"The SOUP!" cried Komatsu as he looked towards the visible aura created by the liquid that was currently in a small hole of ice.
"What seriously!" came Tina's voice from the other side of the ice wall.
Komatsu began to get his container out only to hear a small buzzing as he held the container. He looked and saw a tiny white GT robot riding on top of the fly.
Komatsu stared at the robot and the robot stared back
-Two seconds later-
Komatsu was sent flying towards the Gourment show window and hit it head on with his mouth open. This is the point that changed everything because unknown to either when Komatsu hit the window he bit down unconsciously taking a bite of something gelatinous that happened to be sticking out of the ice slightly.
As Komatsu fell his last conscious thoughts were "I don't want to die I still have to help Toriko." He then hit the ground and passed out.
The tiny robot grabbed Komatsu's container and scooped up the remaining soup. Not paying any mind to Komatsu's body that just started to convulse.
A black aura surrounded Komatsu's body and grew until BOOOOM! A massive shockwave of pure power shook the cavern.
The pilot of the tiny robot turned in shock and thought "Where is this power coming from!" he looked around until his eyes lay on komatsu's unconscious body.
The pilot then said shakily "this is the power that gourmet cells give off during activation but how and why is it so powerful?'
As he thought this he noticed that it seemed to be getting darker in the room as all of the shadows in the room darkened to a pitch black color and then began to gather together around komatsu's body.
The robot's pilot couldn't believe what he was seeing. The shadows that gathered had slowly begun to lift Komatsu's body off of the ground until he was finally standing up but hunched over.
Then the pilot heard laughter come from Komastu but it wasn't Komastu's happy laugh it was a dark malicious combination of Komatsu's voice and two other voices from different vocal ranges one high and creepy, while the other was deep, demonic, and reeking of insanity but the one similarity is both spoke with a lisp much like a snake.
The robot's operator took an involuntary step back as the laughing continued for a good minute. Finally the laughing stopped but then something happened that freaked the pilot out Komatsu lifted his head and stared at him with big eye's that were glowing an ominous blood red and screamed "Finally we can FEAST!"
With that the possessed Komastu said with the demonic voice "Take that soup and get strong because we only feast on strong oppnents." Komastu gained a sickeningly evil grin and began to sink into the shadows on the ground.
As he sank though the high pitched voice said "For now there are two strong creatures for us to devour." And with a creepy chuckle he vanished.
The robot's pilot didn't know what to do so he decided to do what he was assigned and get the hell out of there.
-At the battle grounds-
-5 minutes earlier-
When Komatsu had left to find the soup Toriko had started to get serious and in his battle with Tommyrod had managed to amputate one of Tommyrod's arms using his Leg Knife along with poking some large holes into Tommyrod's torso with his Leg Fork leaving the Sous chef quite hurt.
But in the process Toriko had spent all of his energy and lost his own arm due to Tommyrod blowing it off with his Bug Bombs. Toriko was on the edge of death with Tommyrod about to deliver the finishing blow but Teppai intervened by growing a Protection tree saving Toriko from Tommyrod's attack.
Teppai then proceeded to use his Knocking skill to completely paralyze Tommyrod who by this point was also on his last leg but in a desperate act Tommyrod releases his ultimate insect the
Parasite Emperor
Insectoid Type beast
Capture level: 81
Anatomy: The Parasite Emperor is a bizarre combination possessing the traits of numerous insects and arachnids. Its overall body shape resembles that of a purple scorpion, including the tail but with an engorged spherical formation at the tip where the stinger is located. It also sports six spider legs covered in hair, the wings of a cockroach (which can use to fly), the back legs of a locust and the forelegs of a mantis.
In the front of its body, the beast sports two pair of pincers similar to those of a Hercules Beetle and Stag Beetle its trunk is its actual "main body" which resembles a small little white worm or larva with a somewhat cutesy appearance, that has little black eyes (that can glow red in the anime), numerous tiny legs and a small mouth with tiny sharp teeth, and lower on its little body it has an opening from which it is capable of ejecting spider webs to subdue opponents.
Teppai was unable to do much of anything against this creature before a roar was heard and Teppai turned around to say "Well looks like you finally woke up huh." He said seeing
Hellboros
Reptile Type Beast
Capture level: 72
Anatomy: It is a gigantic pale-skinned creature with a mostly irregular body shape that partially resembles that of a sauropod. It has a large growth atop its body from which many heads grow. On its front, two heads also grow, and on its backside has another head growing which serves as a tail. It has at least sixteen visible heads.
Both began to fight and Teppai took this chance and healed Toriko and the others when he had finished Toriko was able to stand and walk with little trouble. He, Teppai, and Match had gathered Matche's unconscious goons and a hardly conscious Takimaru and were about to leave.
It was at this instant a massive blast of power shook the very ground beneath their feet making the two massive creatures stop in their tracks and turn towards the cave that Komatsu had left down.
Toriko stared at the cave in shock and thought "What is this!?"Toriko felt this power and was easily able to assess that whatever this was it was coming their way and he knew none of them minus Teppai could fight at the moment.
They all stared at the cave unsure of what to do as the sound of laughing began to fill the air as the laughing got closer and louder the shadows from the cave began to grow darker and spread out like tentacles.
Finally the laughter stopped just short of the cave's exit and out of the darkness they all saw glowing red eyes with a viscous grin. Slowly the grin and eyes began to form as they walked out of the darkness leaving everyone with a baited breath.
Only to see it was Komatsu but behind him a black aura formed into two black snake like creatures that had pulsating red veins with the same red eyes as him and a lot of razor sharp teeth.
Toriko yelled "Komatsu!" he didn't understand why this power was coming from Komatsu then he already knew that Komatsu wasn't himself but this thought was reinforced when he said in his distorted voice "Time to eat!"
-Komatsu vs Hellboros and Parasite emperor-
Hellboros and the Parasite emperor charged at Komatsu intent on taking out what they viewed as a larger threat then each other.
The Parasite fired its freezing breath at Komatsu who jumped about a foot in the air and as he landed sank into his shadow to dodge. Komatsu's shadow then began to race towards Parasite emperor until it was right in front of it and Komatsu jumped out of his shadow at the Parasite emperor's face but the parasite pulls back quickly allowing Komatsu to soar above the creature.
Komatsu was about to attack when Hellboros got in the way by sending some of it heads at Komatsu who dodged by spinning in mid air to redirect himself and fell to the ground instantly sinking back into his shadow.
Both beasts heightened their senses trying to find komatsu only for him to reappear behind both and slam his hand into the ground and call "Shadow Net" Shadows burst from the ground in front of Komatsu and went after both creatures Parasite emperor deployed its wings and started to fly to get away.
But Hellboros was unable to do this so it was caught as the shadows formed a net like pattern that reached just above its knees and prevented it from moving.
Komatsu then called "Shadow impaling" the net like bindings on Hellboros's legs stretched outward forming spike until.
BAM! The spikes that were formed shot inward like a rubber band that had been snapped causing Hellboros to let loose a mighty cry as it fell to the ground unable to hold itself up with the loss of its legs. Komatsu began to laugh as Hellboros's blood formed a pool on the ice
Hellboros then puked out the Bogie woods and Barrygamon who quickly ran after picking up Tommyrods fatigued body.
His actions shocked those who were still conscious Komatsu would never show such bloodlust.
Komatsu retracted the shadows from Hellboros and turned his attention to the Parasite Emperor who was still high in the sky staying as far from Komatsu as it could.
Komatsu grinned and shouted "If you won't come to me I will come to you!" Komatsu then went back into his shadow and raced onto the top of the highest head of the injured Hellboros who was too busy trying to get up to worry about where komatsu was . When he got there he got out of his shadow and jumped down towards the ground and back into his shadow. Then his shadow went directly underneath Parasite emperor. Komatsu came out of his shadow like as if he had been shot out of a cannon directly at the beast.
Parasite Emperor tried to skewer Komatsu with its scorpion tail but Komatsu did what he did before and spun out of the way landing on its back.
Komatsu spoke "Toriko has his Kugi punch but I have" as he said this he crossed his arms across his chest in an x shape and shadows covered his hands forming claws. He shouted "My Shadow Claws!"
Komatsu spun around and quite literally clipped the Parasite Emperor's wings in half destroying its ability to fly and forcing it to start to fall to the ice covered ground.
Komatsu escaped like before by jumping off and landing in his shadow. Seconds later the Parasite Emperor landed in a disgruntled heap.
Komatsu slowly rose from his shadow as the parasite beast regained its footing. Parasite Emperor charged Komatsu in a final bout only to stop for no reason.
"Shadow binding" the trio sound that was Komatsu's voice called. When they looked down they could see that Komatsu's shadow had stretched out and joined with the Parasite Emperor's shadow.
"Now" said Komatsu as he raised one of his hands the parasite beast did the same with its claw and in on quick movement Komatsu rammed his hand into his chest not doing anything but the Parasite Emperor rammed its claw through its chest and out the back. Making it fall to the ground bordering on dead
Komatsu was about to finish the job and kill it when he heard something so he turned to see Hellboros forcing itself up on it's newly healed front legs even though it's back legs hadn't fully healed preventing it from moving.
Komatsu looked thoughtful for a second and said "Interesting you seem to be able to heal rather quickly that could be useful the only thing you lack is a good defense" he then turned to the Parasite Emperor and said "Yours will do"
Komatsu then said "Have fun in my world Shadow Void!" Both creatures unable to run were forced to watch as their own shadows formed a whirlpool underneath them and sucked them in making them disappear.
(End fight)
Komatsu turned towards Toriko and the others who looked in a word shocked. Their faces showed a look that was somewhere between disbelief and bordering insanity, if the fact that all of their jaws had broken the ice underneath their feet and kept going.
The only one that was an exception was Toriko who glared at Komatsu and demanded "Who are you and what have you done with Komatsu!"
Komatsu looked at him and said "Aw how do you not recognize us Toriko? It's us Komatsu"
Toriko sneered and said "Komatsu would never do that and further more couldn't so I will ask again who are you?!"
Komatsu looked confused even with his red eyes and said "Just because we got a power upgrade you don't recognize us? Well we guess that's kind of understandable." He reasoned.
Toriko yelled "Just answer the damn question!"
Komatsu waved his hands infront of him and said "Ok ok sheesh we am Komatsu or more accurately I'm to Komatsu what that hannya oni in your gut is to you"
Toriko's eyes flew open and he almost dropped Takimaru and said "But that would mean that Komatsu had Gourmet cells somehow get in his body."
Komatsu smiled and said "Yup and we are sorry about that little psycho bit a minute ago but we needed something to eat and wanted a good battle."
Toriko then said "But you didn't eat anything."
Komatsu blinked for a minute before he started to panick "Crap crap crap! Listen if we don't get something in our body now we will die!"
Toriko looked shocked and said quickly "He's right if gourmet cells are introduced to someone you must have a lot of food handy or else the cells will eat your body and kill you!"
The others nodded their understanding but then they heard a voice "Honestly, who would have thought you would get in this much trouble" They all turned to see Granny Setsuno, who walked up to Komatsu and said "Well it seems you somehow got gourmet cells in you."
Komatsu shouted "As much as we would love to talk we don't have a lot of time!"
Setsuno raised a hand to quiet him and said "There is no need for that look behind you."
They all turned and to their shock there were dozens of boxed lunches.
They all blinked but Komatsu shouted confused "Who, what, how, AW screw it Itadakimasu!" with that he jumped for the boxes and ate as fast as his body would allow.
In a few minutes all but about twelve boxes were eaten and with those Komatsu said "Thanks Granny! We have eaten our full for now. We also left at least one for everyone here and those down in the tunnel. Also now that we have eaten and are no longer in any danger Komatsu will wake up in a few minutes so we will explain everything to him while he sleeps and he will have control when he wakes up. Finally call us Darkness."
Toriko and the others nodded in acceptance of this answer as Darkness fell unconscious. Another ten or so minutes later Komatsu woke up in front of everyone in the cavern leaning against the Gourmet Show Window and promptly screamed "WHAAAAAAAAAT!"
Everyone looked at him with concern as his face displayed horror then after a minute acceptance and he sighed and said "What the F*** happened to me and why the hell are there two massive snake creatures in my head!"
Everyone blinked at his choice of words but Toriko laughed and said "Follow me." He then walked over to where Komatsu had hit the window face first "This is what happened to you" he said pointing to a jellyfish of all things and continued "This is a Gourmet Jellyfish it's the source of where everyone who has them gets Gourmet cells."
Teppai then said "It's not impossible after all those who made the window are very likely to have put one here not knowing what it was centuries ago."
Toriko nodded and said "Thing is these jellyfish have absolutely no taste what so ever so I don't know why it's here."
Komatsu shrugged and said "Oh well." Everyone looked at him as he continued with a smile and said "What's done is done I have gourmet cells now I don't see a problem in fact from where I'm standing that just means that now I can get stronger faster and help out more if anything this is great!" he finished with a determined look.
Toriko grinned and everyone else smiled but then Komatsu frowned and said "I'm sorry"
Toriko was confused and asked "For what?"
Komatsu looked ready to cry and said "I couldn't save the soup after I was knocked out Darkness literally didn't care about it and allowed the tiny GT robot that knocked me out to take it."
Toriko walked up to Komatsu placed his hand on Komatsu's shoulder and said "Don't worry about that bud and don't blame Darkness while what they did was wrong in the beginning it was to find a lot of food so as to keep you alive and from what I can figure that tiny container you normally use wouldn't be enough."
Komatsu wiped his eyes and said "Thank you Toriko."
Teppai stepped forward and said "As wonderful as this moment is I think I know what to do about the soup." After saying this he took one of the containers he had attached to his earring and with a drop of the liquid inside he killed the Protection tree he used earlier to keep the Window safe.
He then grabbed the root and said "I'm going to squeeze the last drop of soup out of the window and whoever gets it will be the one the soup decided will eat it!"
Everyone nodded and watched as Teppai squeezed with all his might compacting every ingredient in the window soon a single large drop of the soup fell and the one who caught it was Komatsu.
Komatsu stared at the soup that was in his cupped hands and vowed to everyone "Since the soup has chosen me I swear on my honor as a chef that I will recreate this soup so that everyone can have some I will NOT allow this soup to die!"
Everyone smiled at Komatsu's resolve and couldn't help but believe he would do what he said.
Komatsu then began to drink the soup closing his eyes to savor it. He began to glow literally glow he grew slightly taller from his just over five foot height to around five foot five inches. Next his body gained a fair amount of muscle making him look like he worked out a bit more than an average person. His hair was the next thing to grow only about an inch or so but it was noticeable.
When the glowing subsided everyone looked at the new Komatsu whose response to the soup was to scream like a little girl granted his voice had dropped an octave or two and slump his head hiding his face.
Toriko asked quickly "Komatsu are you ok?!" worried something was wrong.
Komatsu turned towards Toriko and said "I'm more then ok I'm wonderful" he lifted his head to show his eyes were glazed over, nostrils flared, and a smile that reached up to the side of his eyes.
Toriko looked creeped out by his face and asked "What's with that face?"
Komatsu unable to change it said "I don't know the soup just forced my face to stick like this."
"Well that's all well and good now what do you all say we get going so Komatsu can begin to make the soup for everyone?" asked Setsuno as she motioned for them to follow her
Everyone smiled and nodded. Soon they were inside of setsuno's pet the Limousine Jellyfish It was large pink and it's insides looked like a house complete with a working kitchen did we mention it FLYS!
-Inside the Jellyfish-
While everyone was eating their meals prepared by Setsuno who was preparing it faster than they could eat it and that was saying something given that Coco had joined them after meeting up with them when they were leaving Ice Hell worried something happened.
During all of this Komatsu decided to strike up a conversation with Darkness "Um hello?"
Darkness responded "Yes what can we help you with?"
Komatsu confused asked "Well first why do you refer to yourself as more than one person or entity?"
Darkness answered "Simple, We are part of you as such we took on your darker traits but as such we are still you so we are different but at the same time similar."
Komatsu was still confused and said "Pretending I understood that I was able to sort through the memories of what happened while I was out cold and you controlled my body so will I be able to do all of those things?"
Darkness said "Eventually yes but training is a must the only reason we were able to do those things while in your body was because we were straining you to the absolute limit of your body and if Granny Setsuno didn't show up to be blunt we would be dead."
Komatsu shivered a little but it went unnoticed he then asked "If you are my darker traits then why are you being so helpful?"
Darkness finished "We are being helpful because we know as a chef you must taste all the food you prepare before you take it to the customer so in other words we get first dibs on anything you make also since your with Toriko chances are you will be in a lot of battles and we love fighting so as long as you fight a fair amount and we get food then we will be on good terms."
Komatsu blinked and thought "That actually makes the most sense I have heard form you yet. One more question why am I acting more neutral towards everything?"
Darkness nodded at the question and said "As we said before we are your darker traits given form so instead of hiding them or in your case ignoring them all together we are counteracting your good traits now this means you will just have a more neutral view of things nothing else your good traits will still be more pronounced then us."
Komatsu nodded and said "Thanks for the info later."
Darkness nodded as the connection was cut.
Komatsu looked out of the window of the jellyfish and saw an amazing sight a massive tree
Toriko saw Komatsu looking out of the window and looked himself he then said "Hey guys look it's the healing country Life!"
Everyone looked out the windows in awe as Setsuno had her jellyfish land.
"Well let's get going" said Toriko as he and the others exited the now landed jellyfish.
Komatsu then said excitedly "Sorry Toriko but I'm not staying I want to get back to the Hotel Gourmet so I can start on recreating the soup!"
Toriko grinned and said "Alright bud and good luck!"
Komatsu smiled and said "Ya you to Toriko now go get your arm fixed!"
Setsuno then walked up to Komatsu and said "So you'd rather get to work then have a free vacation huh." She smiled and said "Well I guess I'll drop you off at the Hotel."
Komatsu smiled again and said "Thanks Granny!" he then heard something "Yu yuyu!" Komatsu turned around to see that the little penguin he found earlier had followed them. He bent down and hugged the little guy and said "I guess you wanted to come with us huh"
His response was a very happy "YU!"
Komatsu chuckled and said "Well you need a name how about Yun." The newly named Yun began to dance around happily.
Komatsu then got up as setsuno started to have the jellyfish leave and walked to the window and shouted to Toriko below "Don't worry Toriko I promise to have the soup complete soon!"
Even though he couldn't see it Toriko smiled and thought "Can't wait bud" with that they both turned in opposite directions and thought "Let's do this!"
-End-
Thanks for reading everyone hope you enjoyed
So Komatsu has gained his power and now is able to fight at a reasonable level for now, Honestly I feel I overpowered him slightly more than I intended for the moment but I corrected that by reasoning that his power is limited without Darkness taking over.
Yes this is technically A Toriko/The Darkness Crossover but I'm not going to be using much else from the Darkness games and I am interested in hearing what everyone else thinks about this story so please
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