Lavos

Image:Forthcoming

Name:Lavos

Universe:Chrono Trigger

Average height: one mile

Home planet: unknown

Diet: planetary energy

Sentient: Presumably

History
The organism called Lavos arrived on the unnamed Planet in the year 60,000,000 BC, at the close of a war between Reptites (lizardmen) and cavemen. Obliterating the reptite stronghold, the creature immediately began to burrow into the planet core. During the Ice Age, the creaure's great energy was harvested by the Zeal empire during the year 12,000 BC. When the energy extracting equipment was moved to a place on the surface closest to Lavos, the creature awoke and scattered the Zeal royal family to the winds of time. The young prince Janus was transported to the middle ages in the kingdom of Guardia, where his great skill in magic allowed him to make progress as a wizard. Studying Summoning magic, he attempted to summon Lavos to kill it in revenge for his sister's presumed death at it's "hands". However, his summoning ritual was disrupted by the appearance of the warrior Glenn, whom he had turned into a giant frog ten years prior, and a band of sorcerers. Lavos continued to sleep until the year 1999 AD, where it proceeded to lay waste to the planet's surface. Moving to a mountain called Death Peak, quite possibly the world's tallest, it began to spawn clones to infect other worlds. However, due to a time-travel quest by the aforementioned Glenn's companions, including the princess of Guardia, a mad scientist, a peasant boy, and the Ioka cheiftan, (and possibly Janus himself), Lavos was killed when he finally surfaced.

Terminology
The name Lavos is an Ioka word, "La" meaning "big", and "Vos", meaning "fire"

Overview
Lavos has an outer shell that resembles a cross between an ant and a sea urchin. This shell is incredibly tough, and considerable force must be used to crack it open. The shell is capable of projecting plasma beams, and can store enough energy to cause a nuclear winter. Inside the shell is a cave-like structure that emits faint green light. At the core, there is a creature resebling an astronaught at a desk. Despite it's visage, it is incredibly potent in combat.

Lavos burrows into the core of a world once it lands on it. It coninues to absorb the planet's energy and direct evolution to the point where the inhabitants can create massive power plants, such as nuclear reactors. With this jump-start, it kills all or most of the inhabitants by making the world uninhabitable. It then moves to a point on the surface close to space, and churns out babies, much like a female rabbit or gerbil. These young lavos can move through space without any mechanical assistance.