Cilantro the Garden Snail

Cilantro the Garden Snail is a Tritagonist animal companion that first appeared in the book The Autistic Hero. He is one of Xenith Stephenson's pets alongside his pet Husky dragon named Ripper and a rescued Griffin Eaglet named Norman. Cilantro was discovered in Osaka Stephenson's Flower garden just chilling on the plants. Xenith Instead of seeing it as a pest instead takes the little guy under his wing and began caring for it equally as much as Ripper. In fact Cilantro is best friends with Ripper and the 2 regularly play. Cilantro is only the size of a balled up fist which is large for a snail but easy to sneak in Xenith's Pocket for travel. Cilantro is pretty uninteresting in the first book but in The Autistic Hero 2: Worlds Clashing he becomes much stronger and a much more menacing enemy to xenith's enemies.

## Biology

### Ordinary Garden Snail:

When Cilantro was a garden snail in book 1 he was only the size of Xenith's fist and was a turquoise colored with a Cyan colored shell having several crystalline bumps on it which sparkled at night. The little guy also was extremely intelligent and had the ability to take commands when needed.

### Self Evolved Form:

In book 2 Cilantro ate a piece of alien fruit conveniently from a Far Flung planet inhabited by intelligent snail abominations and it caused him to rapidly evolve into a 3.5 meter tall and 6.6 meter long monster. It had more of those bumps all over its body this time being used as bodily armor to protect it from ariel attacks and also having a much more colorful shell which it teleports into. The creature has 2 regular snail eyes but gets a Huge Solar Eye which is connected to its brain allowing it to see upwards towards attackers. a cut shows us this monster is somehow made of Carbon atoms which would explain the literal crystals on its shell. Sprouting from beneath the shell is a set of slimy and leathery wings which are spiraly towards the bottom tips much like lollipops and they can easily take flight. His chin is also more rounded and his thousands of teeth are still attached to its open Thanos like mouths.

## Abilities

Intelligence: In both forms, Cilantro is a very cunning snail and even helps his owner to get open locks by going inside the locks without its shell and disabling them with slime to trip the circuits.

Flight: In its alien form, Cilantro can take flight with its slimy wings and fly effortlessly through any atmosphere

Telekinesis: Cilantro can manipulate rocks, fire, electricity, and ice with its huge brain when in alien form.

Shell Shield: Whenever in danger, Cilantro will hide in his shell in both forms but his evolved form makes him nigh impenetrable to even alien weaponry which saves his owner multiple times.

Lightning Rod Eye: The Solar Eye on his head in alien form is able to conduct electricity and allow him to fire Lightning Bolts from his snail-like eye stalks.

Acidic Mucus: Whenever Cilantro moves around in his alien form OR flies he releases mucus which can generate to melt certain things and not melt certain things. If he is bitten the predator almost always dies due to the mucus getting in their systems.

Water Adaptability: Cilantro in his alien form can swim and even become a dominant predator under the waves and also in the waters of alien worlds

Space Adaptability: Cilantro doesn't need oxygen in his alien form and can easily travel space forever in its alien form.

Magic Resistance: Cilantro is immune to most earth magic and is even immune to angelic and demonic spells in alien form.

Far Flung Space Sphere: Alien Cilantro when in ranged combat will create a Cyan blue sphere with a lime core in his wrinkly mouth and he will use his solar eye to foresight the movement of his enemy before firing. This orb if it hits will create a massive explosion of Gamma Radiation and toxic acid which both melts and Sunburns its target.

Esper Mucus Crescent: From its alien wings it can fire purple and lime gelatinous crescents that deal multi-hitting damage and inflicts several awful status conditions such as Melting, MegaBurn, Suffocation, and Crushing Pressure.

Deadly Teeth Ring: Cilantro in alien form usually kills his victims by biting around their whole neck with his thousands of snail teeth that grind down into the tissue and spine. These teeth are able to even eat through chainmail and dragon hide.

Pressure Field: If Cilantro in alien form is being attacked by multiple enemies he will use his psychic powers to enhance gravity around him and the closer his enemies get to his shell the more they crunch in on themselves.

Super Eye sight: cilantro can see plainly underwater and on land as well as being able to see ghosts and things that only bugs can see.

Sickness Immunity: Due to his exposure to the Icky alien fruit, He is unable to be infected by any kind of disease or Nanovirus which is combated by his new immune system.

Detect Alignment: Cilantro is able to not only know who is friend or foe due to telepathic means but also is able to keep those faces in his memory forever.

## Trivia

Cilantro is the first instance of a random ordinary animal becoming a near unstoppable creature.