Authors Notes: Well everyone here's the start of the second arc this will be the longest chapter so far in the story. In the second arc, there's going to be a mix of meetings and blogs, the meetings will end up being in third person POV, and the blogs will of course be in first person.

The First and Second Arc have been beta read by SapphoSensei and re-posted as of 8/11/12 and 8/13/12

Disclaimer: I do not own Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Funimation does, I borrow the characters to write my stories with for entertainment purposes only. I do not make any money off from my stories in accordance with fair use.

Well without further ado, I present to you the second arc of this story. I hope you enjoy the read.

ZR };-


The Puzzle of Love

By

Zona Rose

Chapter 11-Meeting One


Third Person POV

A young woman with chocolate Brown hair, a yellow blouse, and beige shorts walks into the food court of her local mall. She's looking around as if searching for someone; it could be she is looking for a friend, or maybe even a secret rendezvous with a lover. Only the young woman and the one she is meeting actually know what's transpiring.

The young woman sees someone that fits the description of who she's looking for, but instead of seeing one person, she sees two people waiting. She walks a bit closer to see if she is wearing the outfit that she was told to look for, and sure enough, the woman sitting at the table had Chestnut Brown hair in a sideways ponytail, a pink blouse, and white shorts. What seems to be out of place is the little girl sitting next to her with sandy blonde hair.

The woman walks up to the pair and stands next to the woman, and clears her throat to get her attention. "Excuse me. Would you happen to be Stars One?"

The woman that is sitting down turns her head and looks up with a smile on her face, "Yes I am, and you must be Long Arch One. It's a pleasure to finally meet you face-to-face."

Long Arch One sat across from Stars One and held out her hand to shake the other's, while introducing her real name. "My name is Hayate, Yagami Hayate the pleasures all mine."

Stars One took Hayate's hand in hers with a smile still on her face and introduced herself and the little girl. "My name is Nanoha, Takamachi Nanoha, and this is my daughter Vivio. It's wonderful to finally meet you. Please call me Nanoha."

"I will as long as you call me, Hayate."

"I think with that we're going to get off to a wonderful start."

Hayate still smiling looked between the mother and daughter, and noticed that neither looked like the other, the daughter had sandy blonde hair, Nanoha had Chestnut colored hair, the child had Christmas colored eyes, whereas Nanoha had sky-blue eyes, also their facial features didn't match. Feeling it was best to get to know the daughter as well as her mother, Hayate wanted to include the child in their conversation.

After releasing Nanoha's hand Hayate moved it over towards the little girl so that they could shake hands in greeting as well, "Hello Takamachi Vivio, it's a pleasure to meet you. If you would like you can call me auntie Hayate?"

Vivio smiled and shook Hayate's hand and seemed to warm up to her rather quickly. Looking over at her mother releasing Hayate's hand she said. "Mama I like auntie Hayate much better than uncle Ferret."

"Vivio he has a name it's not uncle Ferret its uncle Yuuno. Please don't pick up my bad habits of calling him a Ferret, you might actually slip and call him that to his face, which will only make him angry."

Hayate had a strange look on her face as she looked between Nanoha and her daughter. Shaking her head to get rid of the strange thoughts in her head she continued to watch the conversation taking place on the other side of the table.

"But Mama you're always calling him Ferret when he's not around. Besides I don't like the way he looks at you when you're not looking, especially the really angry face that he has right now over in that bookstore."

Both women turn and look at the bookstore that was a few hundred yards away, there with his back turned to them was a tall man with long blonde hair. Both women thought he looked familiar, as Hayate turned around she saw a worried look on Nanoha's face.

"Nanoha I have a strange question for you, his last name wouldn't happen to be Scrya would it?"

Nanoha had a surprised look on her face, while Vivio was nodding her head yes. Hayate did a face-palm and shook her head.

"Hayate are you all right? You look slightly pale, do you need something?"

"No, I'll be fine it's just that, it would seem that you're the other woman."

Nanoha looked confused at first until a light bulb went off in her head as she looked at Hayate and put her hand on her forehead and leaned it onto the table.

"Hayate does the Librarian work at the Infinite Library at the TSAB?"

"Yes he does. I'm guessing Nanoha that the Ferret also works at the Infinite Library too?"

With a slightly sad smile on her face Nanoha replied, "Yes he does, it would seem that the Ferret and the Librarian are one and the same person, Yuuno Scrya."

"Well I guess something good came out of this in the end. At least I know the other woman isn't going to steal him away from me." Both women started laughing at that statement, and Vivio was looking back and forth between the two women wondering what the joke was.

The blonde haired man in the bookstore saw the two women laughing together and misunderstood what was going on. Anger and resentment was showing on his face as his hands balled up into fists at his sides. His body trembled trying to restrain himself from marching over there and demanding to know what was going on. Trying to control his anger was becoming increasingly harder, so he decided to leave the bookstore and the mall.

"Well now that we both know who Ferret and Librarian is, I would love to know more about your Golden Goddess."

"Ah yes, my Golden Goddess. Her real name is Fate T. Harlaown. She's about 5'9", long golden yellow hair… which when I knew her she usually has tied at the nip of her neck with a black ribbon. Her skin is like alabaster as she was actually born in another country. Somewhere in Europe, I believe she said. Her eyes are the most unusual color I've ever seen. The color of a rich red wine a beautiful Burgundy, but they have a sad undertone to them. I never did find out why her eyes always looked slightly sad. In my heart she is the most beautiful woman in the world."

"The way you talk about her I can see the glow of love all over your face. I wish I could help you, unfortunately I can't use my resources at work for anything but work related purposes."

"What do you do for work that's going to take you to Mid-Childa next month?"

"I'm a commander of a mobile division with that TSAB. What is the family business that tore you away, that now seems to make you so sad?"

"Yes well my father ended up hospitalized, and unfortunately my brother and sister were abroad at the time for their schooling. They were hired by other companies that kept them from home. Therefore, between my mother, myself, and of course Vivio we run the Midoriya Bakery and Café."

"So, that's why he goes there all the time, and raves about the pastries at that café; I should've known it had to do with the other woman. Although now that I know that the other woman is you, I'm not quite so worried about you stealing him from me." Hayate said with a smile on her face.

"You definitely don't have to worry about that. I will definitely try my best to steer him your way without being too blunt about it."

Vivio started getting squirmy in her seat as she looked pleadingly over at her Mama, "Mama I have to go to the bathroom."

"Okay Vivio let's go. We'll be right back Hayate."

While Hayate was waiting for the two of them to get back from the bathroom, she glanced over at the bookstore and noticed the man with blonde hair was no longer standing there. She let out a sigh of relief that she didn't know she was holding.

After 10 minutes the two returned, Vivio looking very much relieved as she probably had been holding it for a few minutes before saying something to her Mama. Hayate noticed that Nanoha kept looking over at the bookstore as if she was looking for him; she still had a slightly worried look on her face.

"Nanoha I've been thinking I don't want to embarrass either one of us seeing how neither one of us had seen or knew who the other was and we've both been talking about the same man. So, I was thinking that maybe we should leave out the fact that we both know him in the blog. That will save embarrassment on both of our sides, what do you think?"

"If you think so, I mean we've both been honest in the blog so far would it be lying not saying that we know the same person?"

"I don't know Nanoha, is it lying that nobody else knows about Vivio on the blog? Just because we're not telling them, something doesn't mean we're lying about it. I know I'm going to feel a bit embarrassed that I've been pouring my heart out to the "other woman" who actually has no interest in him at all."

Nanoha giggled a little bit at the fact that Hayate had done air quotes when she said other woman. Expelling a sigh Nanoha nodded her head in agreement. "All right we'll keep that between us, but if we're asked we tell the truth. I don't want to have any secrets among us, the only reason nobody knows about Vivio is she asked me to keep her out of it. And how can I say no to those Christmas colored eyes when they look like a little puppy dog."

Hayate looked over it Vivio, "So I take it you don't want me to mention you either in the blog?"

Vivio shook her head no and looked as if she was embarrassed about something. The two women thought it was strange but let it slide. The rest of their visit was small and idle chitchat; they also walked around the mall and when evening came, they parted in better friendship than when they arrived.


Miles away in an apartment a man paces in his living room anger and fury finally takes hold of him, as he punches his fist through his living room table shattering the glass. He pulls his fist out from the wreckage, blood dripping from his hand. An eerie and scary smile crosses his face.

"I will bide my time and wait for the right moment to make you mine, all mine Nanoha."


Authors Notes: Well everybody that's the beginning of arc two I hope you've enjoyed the read so far. As this arc progresses keep an eye on who is blogging and who is not. As the set up at the end of this arc throws everything into a tailspin for the third one. That's the only hint that anonymous, and non-reviewers get.

Reviews, reviews, reviews! Please tell me what you think in your reviews. Sometimes I give hints when I reply to my reviews at what's coming up next. I will never hold a story hostage for reviews, but I do sometimes like to give hints on what's coming up. So that little review box down below is a writer's best friend, sometimes. *_* Remember positive criticism is always welcomed, but flamers will always be ignored.

In Love & Light,

Zona Rose };-


BR 8/12/2012