More spoilers for Dragon Cry.

Chapter Sixty Eight - The Dragon Cry

Toma seemed to be a bit in shock.

"What's the Dragon Cry?" Ame asked.

"Dwagon?" Hisui asked.

"Give me a bit, Hisui," I told her, before turning to her mother. "The Dragon Cry is a staff that has collected anguish and magic from the souls of passed dragons. It also has the power to extract a dragon from a human body."

"A…a human body?" she whispered. "Why would a dragon be in a human?"

"It's an ability that dragons have," I said. "And in a few years, we'll get some more dragon slayers who have dragons inside them as well."

"Why?" Ame asked.

"Dragon slayers, after using their magic for a specific amount of time, undergo a 'dragonification' process," I explained. "They turn into a dragon. These dragon slayers were all raised by dragons, and their dragons didn't want them to turn into dragons – so they decided to enter their bodies so that their bodies can adapt to their own magic, but also not overwhelm them and change them."

"And that's what you'll need the Dragon Cry for?" Toma asked, suddenly getting his voice back.

I nodded. "I need it for six people. But I won't need it until X784. Just make sure that, whatever happens, Zash doesn't find out."

He nodded, still looking a bit pale. "Understood. Using the Dragon Cry for destruction would be catastrophic."

November passed at a nice rate…but the first of December we got a surprise.

Not a good one.

Well…I would count it as a good one if we could find Porlyusica.

But we couldn't.

And for some reason I was put in charge.

"Why are you all looking at me?!" I shrieked.

"You're the only other one with healing powers!" Rex shouted, shaking me.

"Stop shaking me, dammit!" I shouted.

He stopped and let go of me, and I took a deep breath. "No one can contact Porlyusica?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"She's not at her house, I've already gone and checked," Laxus said.

"Fuck," I muttered.

Once, again, I WAS NOT MENTALLY PREPARED FOR THIS.

I turned and pushed open the door to the infirmary.

"Maggie, you're going to have to breathe," I told her. "And push."

She glared at me. "I know that."

Yeah, well I didn't know much more about giving birth than that. "I don't exactly want to help someone give birth when I'm twelve."

Besides, God said that I'm closer to my physical age…

"Dammit Elle, do something!" Maggie yelled, obviously having another contraction.

"I don't know what to do!" I screamed, but even as I said that, my body was moving on its own accord.

Before I even had time to blink, my hand was on her head, and I had whispered, "Haumea's Blessing."

Maggie began to glow, before sagging a bit in relief. My mind continued.

"Haumea's Deliverance."

And then, just once, Maggie pushed.

And a baby popped out.

I stared at it. It stared back, obviously surprised it had come out so quickly.

See, even the baby knows that's not supposed to happen.

And then it burst into tears.

"WHAT the absolute FUCK?!" I shrieked.

You know, I wonder what would happen if the first words you heard after being born was 'what the absolute fuck'.

Well, I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.

"Don't scare my baby!" Maggie yelled.

"You're not pregnant anymore, stop being so moody!" I yelled back at her.

The door burst open, and Rex stood in the doorway. Behind him, the other adults peered over his shoulder.

"What happened?" he asked.

"HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?" I shrieked.

"Elle did magic and the baby popped out," Maggie said, starting to shift so she could pick up her child.

"Congrats, you guys are parents, I need to look shit up."

And then I teleported home.

Seriously, what the fuck?

I stared down at the book in my hand. A new section had appeared in my book on Planetary Magic, and the whole book was rearranged. I drifted back to my conversation with God; she said that I had a few surprises, but I thought that seeing Dragon Cry was the gift. This was something else altogether.

Still though; no one else could have messed with my magic like this.

Taking the book with me, I teleported back to the guild.

"Elle?" Makarov asked.

"How many planets are there?" I asked.

"Where is this coming from?" he asked.

"PLEASE JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!" I said very very loudly, my voice cracking a bit.

He stared at me with surprise. "Eight. There are eight planets."

"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked. "All along, I've been using Pluto. Like it was nothing."

"I didn't realize that you didn't know," Makarov said. "And besides, you don't use Pluto that often."

It's true. Even now that I can use each planet, I still preferred Earth and Venus – though I tended to use Jupiter and Saturn often, as well.

I sagged into a chair.

"What's wrong, Elle?" Laxus asked.

What's wrong? God decided to give me a gift, and it's screwing with me.

"Did you know there are dwarf planets?" I asked him.

Laxus nodded. "Yeah, Pluto is one, right? Have you started learning the other planets? What do they do?"

I blinked at him. "You know that I could use the dwarf planets?"

He shrugged. "I figured, when you started with Pluto. I'm kinda excited to learn about the dwarf planets, though."

"Why?" I asked.

"Well…" he said slowly. "Those planets are kinda considered the Lost Planets. I mean, no one even knows what they do. That information has been lost."

I laid my head down in my arms, groaning. "Haumea practically turns me into a midwife. I can't believe I have an entire PLANET for childbirth."

Laxus started laughing, and took a few minutes to get his laughter under control so he could breathe again. "What...about...the others?" he wheezed out.

I sighed. "I'm not exactly sure."

They had been in the book the next time I had looked at it. God had obviously wanted this to be a surprise, so I had got Haumea when I needed it, but it looked like I could still learn the others.

Though there was a warning against using the dwarf planets too much, and I couldn't help but wonder what that meant. It said that in the beginning, when learning the element, one doesn't really feel the effects, but over time, it would eventually start having repercussions.

But dwarf planets existing explained a few things. Pluto had always had less spells than the others, and I had never understood why. In addition to that, Pluto had always felt different to use. I thought it was because using Shadow Magic was difficult, but it seems like it's a side effect of using Dwarf Planets, which were more difficult to use.

Except Haumea, because you know, SURPRISE.

I wish I could trade it in. While childbirth is…handy in situations like this, I'd rather exert a bit more power for these sole occasions (the guild is definitely going to make me do more, especially since Romeo will arrive in a few years) and use a different element more often.

Other than Pluto or Haumea, there were three more dwarf planets.

Ceres had to do with perfume and poison magic, as long as it was natural. At least it would come in handy for Erik.

Eris had to do with chaos magic, and seemed to have some spots in illusions and lowering inhibitions.

Makemake is yet another planet that is devoted to sex, though it has more to do with fertility.

I wonder if I can use it on a weapon.

I mean, if I was to set a Vulcan on someone…

At least Ceres and Eris could come in handy. And Pluto.

But I couldn't help but wonder about the ominous warning in the book. It didn't really go into any sort of details.

Still... It kept me up at night. A shiver ran through my mind just thinking that I might find out what could happen firsthand.

And considering that this is Fairy Tail, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up feeling the effects sooner rather than later.

There won't be anything else spoiling Dragon Cry for awhile.

This (the new planets) was inspired by TheBleedingDragon on Quotev who Benton's some things in the comments. As for the question, yes, the training will happen with Ceres. Maybe Ichiya will be thrown in for good measure.

Baby will be explained soon.

And I wonder if you'll be able to guess the consequences for using Dwarf Planets too often? It differs from planet to planet.