Crystal Parasite

Crystal Parasites are colonies of living crystals that upon touch will "infect" the surface of any living organism that comes into contact with them. While the parasites choose when to infect or not, they infect by quickly forming a colony of slowly forming crystals on the arms, shoulder and backside of the infected targets (target must have a solid body to be infected).
Eventually the crystal parasite colony will engulf the target's body and begin to affect the target's mind, manipulating them into doing what they want. 
Targets infect and taken over can form crystal armor, shoot crystalline projectiles and are immune to most energy-based attacks (the crystals absorb the energy).
Category:Life
Category:Elemental