Under the Colosseum

Once again John and Cana were sitting inside John's carriage that is heading to Crocus, the capital of Fiore.

A few days have already passed since John's birthday and the guild has become more lively due to the addition of a lively new member that liked to challenge everyone to a fight.

But, Natsu loses the fight nine times out of ten, and the only time he won fighting was when he fought Gray, although the two always fought whenever they saw each other.

Ur would just smile when she saw Gray coming home with bruises all over his body and say that it was all a part of being friends with someone.

Now John and Cana are cuddling on the bed inside the carriage while waiting for the carriage to arrive at Crocus.

"Why are we heading to Crocus this time?" Cana asked as she snuggled comfortably in John's arms.

"We're going there this time to get some good materials," John answered with a smile when he remembered the bones under the Colosseum.

If those bones have not deteriorated too much, he should be able to use it as materials for his next batch of puppets.

And even if some already deteriorated that it will turn into dust upon the lightest touch then he can still use those dust as fertilizers for Fafnir's food.

But, he hopes for those bones to be intact even if it only has S-class strength left, because with the amount of those bones even if they only have S-class strength left it will all be worth it.

Yet, the chance for the bones to be actual S-class might be little since 14 years later most of the bones can be broken really easily.

It will be up to me to pick the best bones for my creation, John thought with his eyes burning with determination.

"Oh right, Cana, I have something for you," John said while pulling out a gift wrapped in red and have a green ribbon to secure it.

When she saw the gift, Cana's eyes lit up, but she didn't take it immediately and asked why.

"Why so sudden? I don't remember anything to be celebrated today?"

"It's something I have prepared before, it's a gift to show you how important you are to me."

"C'mon, open it." John gently smiled and placed Cana's hand on the gift's green ribbon.

Cana nodded happily and untied the ribbon and opened the box, only to be presented with another smaller black box.

Cana felt a thousand unpleasant words flash through her mind when she saw this, she looked at John and saw him still staring at her with a gentle smile.

She wondered why he was looking at her with that look when the gift is a freaking box!

A box inside a box!

How could anyone think of doing such an evil thing to others?

[Random Earth Human: Wait till you receive a gift with a box inside a box with a box inside, that goes on for eternity.]

But, when she took a closer look she realized that there was a button on top of the black box, she hardly noticed it due to it being black as well.

If it were not for the gleam of the button, that she assumed to be made from some sort of gem, then she would have not noticed this button.

She then pressed the button and the whole box lit up with myriad rainbow lights that flowed throughout the body of the box.

Then the box floated and became a rectangular box with the inside hollow and visible to the outside world on one side.

Then scenes woven by light appeared inside showing figures of Cana and John in different attires and poses as she grew up.

But, one thing's for sure, in every scene Cana and John were always smiling like they were having a lot of fun.

Cana knew the scenes inside the rectangular box, as those scenes were all the adventures they had throughout the time since they first knew each other.

As she watched the rectangular box play their journey together, Cana felt warm inside, then the last scene played in the rectangular box.

After that, the rainbow lights wove themselves together into a heart then burst into tiny specks of light, and the rectangular box folded itself back into the black box from before.

"John..."

"You made this... for me? Thank you so much!!!" Cana thanked John loudly and turned and hugged him with tears of happiness in her eyes.

They were so close together that Cana can hear John's fast heartbeat, which caused her face to heat up and blush as her heartbeat began to also beat faster.

John also hugged Cana back and rubbed her head gently, his face was also red, thankfully Cana can't see his face.

They stayed like that for a while only to hear their stomachs growl in protest.

They both blushed in embarrassment and John took out some food from the space to share with Cana.

John then took a look outside the carriage and saw a silhouette of a city far in the distance, he directed the carriage to go to a secluded spot under the cliff where the Colosseum was built.

After arriving there, John stored the carriage and took out a big drill with a room section behind it that can serve as a resting area while the drill dig.

After an hour or so, a hole opened up beneath the arena where many bones are scattered, these bones are so big that just any bone from this is bigger than a child.

Then the drill that John made entered the cave and stopped outside the hole, John and Cana alighted from the drill and saw that everything was dark with few things visible within their limited vision.

Though John quickly adapted since he spends more time in dark places than those sunny ones, still he brought out a big lamp and inputted his magic power into it making it shine brightly illuminating a hundred meters around them.

Then it slowly left John's hand and floated up above them, this was a new product invented by a merchant company that deals with mining, it helps a lot in cave exploration so it's really popular with other mining companies as well.

"Wow, what creature left these big skeletons?" Cana asked in wonder and reached out to touch one then the bone cracked yet it didn't break just cracked.

"Dragons." A light voice answered her, Sebastian appeared in his usual butler clothing while taking a look at this cave.

"For so many dragons to be dead and buried at the same time, there can only be one thing that can cause such a massive amount of deaths among dragons."

"The Dragon King Festival." He said solemnly with a deep dread in his voice.

"What's the Dragon King Festival?" Cana asked curiously why such an event was named the dragon king festival if there are many dragons that are dying in one.

"It's called the Dragon King Festival because every time the festival was held a new dragon king will be born among the dragons that will lead them to greater heights."

"And it's not like the Fire Dragon king like Igneel had, those are just titles that fellow dragons gave them, while the dragon king is truly the king of all dragons."