Creature:Crystallous Rising

Crystallous Born

On a hot, arid desert near an equally hot volcano, a small micro-organism crawls towards a crystal. Unaware it is a parasite, it engulfs its dinner. Before long, the so called children of the cell are born...

These creatures, however, slid away... Finding something... A metal ship. A UFO. The UFO took off, the micro-organisms who were the first Crystallous inside...

The UFO was attacked, crashing into a planet. Before long, the surviving cells moved through the ocean...

Back on their initial planet, a large cataclysm annihilated most land, sinking it into seas of lava... It died that day, but it's legacy lived on...

After only a few weeks, the first cell moved to the surface. How? Simple: Its crystal attached to the back allowed it to survive without the water it lived in. It was joined by others...

Crystallous Seperation

Not one of the cells was the same though... They couldn't reproduce, they couldn't live near one another...

They split up. One found an area where oxygen flowed. It developed two eyes and a mouth, along with weapons, after several generations. It soon was aware of this being a jungle...

Another moved to a volcano... It grew another mouth, one which evidence shows had supported the original eye from which this species developed...

Near the volcano, a Crystallous moved into a cave. It too gained extra eyes of a different type. This species appeared to be more intelligent...

The final two had difficulty. Both needed the arctic glaciers that dotted the landscape, but neither could live near the other. The are mortal enemies. They will never work together unless they have ultierer motives...

All of these species of course, soon discovered the crystals they had were perfect camo. Vulcans could hide in lava and several underground magma pockets to ambush prey. Jungles could move through trees, and hide against them with its crystals blending with the trees natural ones. Caves moved slowly. They had nothing to fear, really, aside from the occasional Vulcan Crystallous. Tundra Crystallous soon had to learn when they had found prey, or another Crystallous Cactus that grew in the Tundros Region.

Hive

Before long, the Crystallous learned of one another again... They formed tribes. Only to have a new threat arrive... The Hive of the Crystals was formed. They fought this unfightable enemy however they could... Religion, early science, even moving the Hive Center to the Magma Matrixing System that had survived the UFO crash all those centuries ago... But, this force... Was their own Queen Crystallous... ''I will continue this soon... Don't worry.''