Chapter 2: The Talk Between Mother and Daughter

A/N: The flashback I am using in this chapter comes from Episode 25 of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers and it belongs to it respective owner. No copyright intended.

"I am very proud of you, Vivio." Nanoha said as she embraced her 17 year old daughter. They had just gotten home from Vivio's college graduation ceremony and now they were busy talking in the kitchen.

The 17 year blond girl couldn't but smile at her mother's reaction. Vivio had worked very in both her physical and magical training. This work ethic combined with some string pulling by the Carim Garcia of the Saint's Church had allowed her to skip all four years of high school. So at the age of 14, she entered the college course at the St. Hilde Academy of Magic. Vivio remembered the experience well. Many of her fellow classmates were three years older than her on average and many were quite shocked at seeing a 14 year old girl in a college classroom. Despite this, she continued working hard not just in her normal classes but also in her Officer Candidate Training classes. Vivio would have graduated earlier but had to take some elective courses as a graduation requirement. It took some convincing but both Nanoha and Fate allowed her to take the Officer Candidate Training in order to fill in her elective requirements. Vivio then continued working hard and finally she graduated at the top of her class. Nanoha was so happy with this development that she cried tears of joy. This reaction also made Vivio proud as she always wanted to make both of her mothers proud and now she felt like she had finally completed that task

"Thank you, Nanoha-mama." Vivio said as she wrapped her arms around her mother.

It was while embracing her mother where Vivio finally realized how far she had come since that day almost 11 years ago. If it hadn't been for Nanoha's determination to save her, Vivio wouldn't have been a chance to experience this moment now.

Flashback

The Saint's Cradle

Date: 0075

"Mama… Save Me…" Vivio pleaded as she tried to restrain herself from hurting Nanoha and while trying to restrain her Saint Kaiser form

"I will." Nanoha said as a pink magical circle appeared under her feet.

"Whenever… No matter what happens..." Nanoha add with determination

"Restrict Lock." Raising Heart said after Nanoha block one of Vivio's punches

Magical chains rose up from the ground and bind Vivio preventing her from moving any part of her body

Nanoha then flew up into the air and both Raising Heart and the Blaster bits started absorbing magical energy into a large pink magical energy ball.

"Vivio… This is going to hurt a bit, okay?" Nanoha said as she finished charging her Starlight Breaker.

"Okay." Vivio said quietly as the chain that held her in place started to break.

"I'll blow through her defenses and knock her out with magical damage." Nanoha thought

"You can do it. Right, Raising Heart," Nanoha asked

Clear to go was Raising's Hearts answer

"Full Power!" Nanoha said as she raised Raising Heart

"Starlight… Breaker…" Nanoha yelled as she pointed the tip of Raising Heart at the main energy ball.

After a second all five beams fired, all beams targeted at Vivio. Vivio didn't totally remember what happened afterwards except that she was in a crater and that she reverted back to her child form. She then saw Nanoha rushing towards her but she told here to stay back so that she could stand up by herself. She than saw Nanoha eyes tear up and rush into the crater towards her. The last this she remembers was being in Nanoha's embrace.

End of flashback

It was at the end of the flashback where Vivio start inadvertedly tightening the embrace around her mother and Nanoha was getting a little bit uncomfortable with how tightly Vivio was hugging her.

"Vivio, you are kind of strangling me here." Nanoha said jokingly

Vivio then let go and backed up a little bit.

"I am sorry, Nanoha-mama." Vivio said with a blush on her face.

"That's okay, Vivio." Nanoha said as she patted her daughter's head.

Vivio let out a little smile before she started rubbing her chin with her thumb and index finger, lost in thought. She was thinking about how she should bring up the topic of what she wanted to do with her future. Vivio had already decided what she wanted to do. She decided that she wanted to join the TSAB Air Force and to become an aerial mage just like both of her mothers. The only thing stopping her from talking to them about joining the TSAB is that they might get worried about her too much and she didn't want to worry them too much. But after some thought, she decided to talk to Nanoha-mama about it since Fate-mama since Fate-mama is still on a mission and it didn't hurt to try. Vivio then placed her hands on the table preparing herself for what she was about to do.

"Nanoha-mama." Vivio said cautiously.

"What is it, Vivio?" Nanoha asked curiously.

"I want to talk to you about my future." Vivio said calmly as she sat down on the kitchen table.

Nanoha sat down on the kitchen table across from Vivio and looked at her daughter. Nanoha knew the look of determination in Vivio's eyes. Nanoha could tell that whatever Vivio wanted to talk about was important to her and that she needed her opinion/input on the matter. With this knowledge, Nanoha decided that she should listen to her daughter and what she had to say.

"Have you decided what you want to do, Vivio?" Nanoha asked with a smile on her face

"Yes, I had already decided what I wanted to do." Vivio answered with determination

"But, I felt that I needed to talk to you and Fate-mama about it." Vivio added

"Well, Fate-chan is still on a mission but I'll be glad to listen to what you have to say." Nanoha said calmly.

Vivio, taking this as a sign to go on took a deep breath before looking into her mother's eyes. Vivio saw that her mother was serious about listening to what she had to say and that bought up her enough confidence to allow her to say what she needed to say.

"I want to join the TSAB Air Force and to become an aerial mage." Vivio said calmly while carefully watching her mother's face.

Nanoha wasn't too particularly surprised with this development since she knew that Vivio has had a very unusual interest in the TSAB ever since she was a little kid. Nanoha even remembered the time where Vivio was 6 and she was watching one of her aerial instruction videos and one of her innocent question had led to the whole Riot Force Six arguing on who is the most powerful mage. Nanoha silently chuckled at that memory before she continued thinking. Nanoha also remembered when she taught Vivio the Axel Fin that Vivio already mastered it after barely an hour's instruction. It was that memory where Nanoha realized that Vivio was at home in the sky as she was on the ground. Nanoha silently admitted to herself that Vivio would be a great aerial mage. She then decided that if her daughter wanted to join the TSAB Air Force, she would support her daughter 100%.

"Is something the matter, Nanoha-Mama?" Vivio asked with concern after seeing her mother lost in thought

"I am okay, Vivio," Nanoha said as she placed her hands on tops of Vivio's.

"If you want to become an aerial mage, it's your choice and both Nanoha-mama and Fate-mama will support you all the way." Nanoha said before cracking a smile.

"To be honest, Vivio, you will make a great aerial mage." Nanoha added

Vivio couldn't believe what her mother just said. Her excitement overflowed within her knowing that both Nanoha-mama and Fate-mama had supported her on the decision. She then instinctively got up and embraced her mother. It was about a couple of minutes before Nanoha said anything.

"I should warn you that I won't be going easy on you during training just because you are my daughter." Nanoha said as she returned her daughter's embrace.

"I will go at it at full force like I always do." Vivio said determinedly

"That's my girl." Nanoha said as she gently patted Vivio's head

"I'll ask Hayate-chan to handle all the paperwork for you when I go to work tomorrow." Nanoha said as she prepared to enter the kitchen.

A communication screen suddenly popped up in front of Nanoha's face as if her words had magically caused it to appear. Nanoha could see Hayate's face on the screen and knew what that meant. There was an emergency that Hayate needed her help in containing. Nanoha then put on a serious face preparing for the emergency briefing.