Taiyang was a happy father, he had spend a full year saving up to take his two daughters on a trip to Atlas. To be honest, Atlas wouldn't have been his first choice if it weren't for the friends he had here, and the fact that his ex-wife,Summer, had a concert here this week. It still hurt to know that she ended up leaving him, but he knew why.

Summer's career as a huntress had ended when an ursa major tore off her right arm. Normally, a huntress would have been able to get a mechanical prosthetic, but she refused, which had made her unable to wield her scythe properly. She originally tried to stay home to raise the kids, but her innate need to help people, and Taiyang's monetary issues at the time, made her decide to try something else. Though what she chose to do surprised everyone who knew her. Summer decided to join a band as the lead singer. She still loved Taiyang, and she most definitely loved her two daughters, but she couldn't spend that much time at home, and felt that he needed another woman to help take care of the kids. So she asked for a divorce, but despite that action, the two were still as close as ever, even if they weren't together anymore.

This trip was as much Summer's idea as it was Taiyang's, he had originally called her to tell her that he was taking the kids on vacation when she excitedly told him that she had a concert coming up in Atlas. After that the two made plans to meet up, and the rest fell into place. Taiyang walked out of Atlas' air docks with a smile on his face while he waited for his two daughters to catch up. Ruby, his five year old, had been excitedly waiting for this vacation since he had told the two of them about it, and now that they were finally here she was practically buzzing with excitement. Her bright silver eyes shining with pure joy as she walked forward, no doubt excited about getting to talk with her mother again. She had even packed a large collection of her drawings to share with her mom. Yang, his seven year old, on the other hand was much calmer. She was still excited, but she showed it in other ways. Primarily the strength with which she'd eventually charge and hug her silver-eyed mother figure.

Taiyang had to suppress a laugh as he saw that Yang had grabbed Ruby's hand and was preventing the smaller girl from charging forward at full speed. All it really did was make Ruby drag Yang along with her, but the older blonde girl was trying her best to keep a relatively normal pace.

"Calm down, little Gem," Taiyang called out joyfully. "You'll see your mom soon enough."

Ruby nodded happily in response, a smile plastered on her face. "But if we move faster we'll see mommy faster won't we?" She asked loudly while continuing to drag her older sister behind her.

"We're going to her concert before we're going to dinner with her. As long as we're there before she gets on stage it doesn't really matter."

"Then let's get there extra early, just to make sure!" The small girl exclaimed excitedly as she redoubled her efforts to drag her sister.

"Dad, you're supposed to be convincing her to walk like a normal person," the blond sister complained lightly, her lilac eyes showing mild annoyance as she looked at her father. "Not to walk faster."

That elicited a laugh from the blonde father, "you know there's no stopping her, Yang. Be patient, it's not that far away."

"Okay," Yang said with a soft sigh, before a smile found its way onto her face. She might be annoyed by her sister's actions, but she did share her sister's excitement.

With that, the family of three walked down the streets of Atlas to the large dome building where the concert would be taking place. The walk only took about fifteen minutes, which left them with a little over an hour until the concert actually took place, and yet there was already loads of people there for the concert. The sight of all of the people there to see his ex-wife's band made Taiyang whistle softly.

"I guess your mom is even more popular than I thought she was," he said softly.

"Of course she is! My mommy's the best!" Ruby exclaimed happily, eliciting a laugh from both her sister and her dad.

"Of course she is," Taiyang said while patting his daughter on the head as he started to walk forward. "Should we go get our seats?"

Ruby opened her mouth to respond, but was cut off by Yang saying, "yup!" She gave her older sister a questioning look before she saw the excitement in her sister's eyes, smiled happily, and dragged her sister behind her as she followed her dad through the building.

As it turned out, they weren't allowed to take their seats yet, and had to stay in line for half an hour before the doors to the auditorium opened, allowing them in. When the three family members sat down they talked to each other about how excited they were to finally be meeting with Summer again. Though that quickly devolved into Ruby and Yang arguing over who was going to give her the biggest hug when they went to dinner together.

"I'm going to hug her for thirty minutes," Ruby said with irritation evident in her voice.

"That doesn't matter," Yang responded easily. "I'm a bigger person, so my hug has to be bigger."

"That's not how this works!"

"I'm pretty sure that's how it works, little Gem," Taiyang said calmly while looking at the stage, which earned him a betrayed look from his younger daughter. "Your mom is coming on stage. Let's be quiet and pay attention."

Utter silence descended on the family as the two girls sat straight up and watched as Summer walked onto the stage. Her white cape flowing behind her as she walked up to the microphone in the middle of the stage. She stood there for a few moments, looking out over the crowd before she spoke.

"Hi everyone," she said calmly, her smooth voice flooding the room through the speakers on the walls and ceiling. Cheers erupted from the audience and she had to wait for them to die down before continuing. "Forgive me if I seem a little nervous today. My two beautiful daughters are in the audience tonight, so please give us a little extra support so I can do my very best for them!"

She seemed to get happier as she spoke, her voice getting steadily more excited and happy until, by the end of her two sentences, her voice was practically filled with happiness, and more cheers erupted as she finished speaking. It was during this bout of cheers that the rest of the band decided to walk onto the stage and take their positions. It was time for the concert to begin.

Ruby watched in awe as her mom sang on the stage, her voice filled with energy and joy as she sang songs that uplifted and encouraged the audience to reach for the stars. She watched as her mom smiled and sang her way through song after song, her joy and excitement never diminishing, no matter how tired she must be from singing so much. It was then that Ruby decided that she wanted to be like her mom, a person who never got tired of helping and encouraging others.

It was also at that moment when the fire alarm sounded. It took a few seconds for anyone to register that the alarm was going off. The first person to react was Summer, who immediately stopped singing with a confused expression on her face. After that the rest of the band quit playing and the audience quickly quieted down. The siren rang through the otherwise silent building for a few moments before anything else happened.

All at once everyone stood up from their seats and started rushing to get out of the isles in as rushed a manner as they could. Despite the haste with which everyone was moving, it was a relatively orderly process, with one small hiccup. When exciting the row of seats, Ruby had been cut off by an older man who didn't see her, and was unable to get around him to get back to her dad and sister. While she was almost panicking from this development, someone else grabbed her by the arm and started leading her through the crowd. Sighing in relief that her dad came to her rescue, Ruby kept her head down and let herself be lead through the crowd. She didn't look back up for a full minute, but when she did she realized one thing, this man wasn't her father. As a matter of fact, she was a woman. She immediately tried to pull away, only for the woman to strengthen her grip on Ruby's arm and continue moving forward.

The woman turned to face Ruby, her face full of sadness and regret. "I'm sorry, little one, but the Atlesian government needs volunteers. I'm sure your parents will understand."

A/N

So… yeah. I take a long break from FF after completing Wilting, and my first chapter when I return is a very short chapter to introduce a new story. Honestly, I had to seriously debate what to do with this chapter… 'cause … right here, there's a 10 year time skip… and I had to figure out whether or not to put the next part in this chapter, or make it the next chapter. I decided that it made more sense to separate the two. So you guys get a short little teaser chapter I guess. Hope you enjoyed it, and I promise that it won't take me months to get the next chapter out despite how hectic my life is right now.