(In Vol5 I thought Yang crying was a nice scene as it made sense as Raven just left her again but her speech at Raven, though nice, felt off. So here's an alternate idea that hit me for the vault. The baddies showed up thanks to Raven but instead of joining the fight before going down, Raven, Cinder, and I can't remember her name all go down. The group upstairs fight, I'm thinking more splitting up out of just the 1 room so can have more focused fights with the reason being to see if there's any alternative way down into the vault when Emerald is screwing with their heads and making it harder to judge if they are going in the right direction to dash down the open hole. The decoy dies right before touching the door to Cinder who finds no power only to just barely move out of the way of a lightning strike. The fight ends with Raven breaking Cinder's aura and uses freezing rain in the room, freezing Cinder who's having trouble focusing with the sharp pelting, falling over the edge. I'm thinking later after she's managed to recover while floating on the water, uses the maiden powers to get herself back up and blasts her way out before taking off when seeing the relic is gone)
(This is kind of long in a script-like format with a novel style version possible later on)
Raven: -catches her breath and approaches the door. She looks at her hand then the massive door before her- "Do you really want to do this?" -a voice inside her head asks gently-460Please respect copyright.PENANAISL7W5jh8k
Raven: -sighs- How do I know he hasn't found someone, or she hasn't found someone to host your power that has a good heart? If they have or if she has given anyone else the power of absorption...they will end up with your powers and the item.460Please respect copyright.PENANACgWuSEu87Y
Maiden: "I trust you won't fall that easily. You'll survive, as you've been doing. Please, leave the door sealed and the item inside. I don't want to risk a snowball effect and my power causing you madness."460Please respect copyright.PENANAwErUaWiGxy
Raven: -sighs and rests her hand on her forehead- Fine, I'll leave it sealed. Damn, squash my curiosity and possibly free knowledge on how to take them down. ...You sure I can't just take a peak and reclose it?460Please respect copyright.PENANAKV2AQWiUM2
Maiden: -snaps- "No!"460Please respect copyright.PENANAgGsDVMUadc
Raven: Got it, no peaking either.460Please respect copyright.PENANARvImtB1Dlj
Yang: -jumps down, stands and approaches- "Raven, I'm glad to see you're alright."460Please respect copyright.PENANABhnnfA6Zkc
Raven: -jumps and turns quickly, hand lowered- "Yang. What are you doing here? I told you to handle things with your father."460Please respect copyright.PENANApQqi4g3d4Z
Yang: "I wanted to help out. I couldn't just stay back and play babysitter to people. Sure, a Huntress is to help people feel assured but our teachers had it under control."460Please respect copyright.PENANAYVmk5p67hS
Raven: -shakes her head- "Well the deed is done here. We should return." -starts walking to Yang and towards the elevator-460Please respect copyright.PENANAFHuYw4g1Zw
Yang: -eyes on the yellow swirly door, keeps walking- "This is amazing. How in the world is this thing so big and how are those trees blooming and glowing like that?" -asks with a whisper, in awe-460Please respect copyright.PENANAkVsmsxVJQy
Raven: -turns- "It's nothing now let's go Yang."460Please respect copyright.PENANANJQ2acNdzi
Yang: "No, tell me what this is." -looks back to Raven- "You said no more secrets yet you're still keeping some."460Please respect copyright.PENANAnyQdgTGNkq
Raven: "I guess I did..." -takes a breath- "It's made and sealed by magic, the same which turns me into a raven."460Please respect copyright.PENANAeoHDcbHn0V
Yang: "What's inside?"460Please respect copyright.PENANA9ZK5oQV3rZ
Raven: "An item that should stay there. Now, as I've said before, let us be going."460Please respect copyright.PENANAwOcLs9zyLF
Yang: "How do you know it should stay inside?" -puts hand on multi-fan door- "Or even what is inside?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAPisMt2g0ZY
Raven: -inhales, exhales- "I just do now-"460Please respect copyright.PENANAIiAobUFKce
Yang: "You're hiding when you said you wouldn't when you said we had to talk. You told me about a multi- century feud between Ozpin and Salem. You told me to watch out for those who carry a mark of the Grimm somewhere on their body as they tend to be the more obvious ones with Salem. You also told me to watch out for Adam."460Please respect copyright.PENANAmeNhx37q95
Raven: -motions to Yang's missing arm- "And you listened so well with that warning a year ago."460Please respect copyright.PENANAkZe9rkf3WK
Yang: -looks to her half limb then to Raven- "I had to protect my teammate. Now, tell me what's inside or show me."460Please respect copyright.PENANA9MX5N5enHZ
Raven: -looks to the elevator then to the door- What do you think? Should I show her?460Please respect copyright.PENANAZd3PNDtAN8
Maiden: "Well I'm not much trusting of her but I can feel you trust her to not blab this out to others. You may tell her about me and my power as well as...see the item that lays beyond. Seal the door before we leave with the item left inside. That is all I request."460Please respect copyright.PENANA8NpJg9Ho1o
Raven: I will. "Alright." -walks up to Yang and the door- "There is an old story about an old man gifting four women seasonal magic and seemingly immortality to help humanity."460Please respect copyright.PENANAGvtZSbzaw5
Yang: "Right, dad used to read it to me and Ruby, continuing the routine mom started when we were very little."460Please respect copyright.PENANANfkIIBXdm3
Raven: "Well...it's more than a story for children." -Yang looks to Raven curious as Raven watches the door- "And I'll show you." -Raven holds a hand out and touches the door with her eyes glowing a green color. The door opens as we see in the show and there is a vast hot desert and past three impact zones floats a lamp of blue and gold-460Please respect copyright.PENANAk978N2hmQK
Yang: -shocked at the sight and slowly looks to Raven- "So you're..."460Please respect copyright.PENANAhW1RW1Csjd
Raven: -eyes stop glowing as she lowers her hand- "The Spring Maiden."460Please respect copyright.PENANAecojEBkpxq
Yang: "Did you-?!"460Please respect copyright.PENANAuQ7UNOaXM7
Raven: "No!" -snaps, shaking her head- "She was killed by another. I was not expecting Dandi to approach me during the night a few years back."460Please respect copyright.PENANAxQjkXmUuMJ
Yang: "Dandi?"460Please respect copyright.PENANApotIoKmHc5
Raven: "Dandelion, nickname Dandi. The spirit. Remember, the maiden was once a person. Now then," -she looks at the lantern- "we've seen what's inside. Time to close it back up."460Please respect copyright.PENANAwntktfIUUP
Yang: "We will but I want to see if it's real. How is there a desert underground with sunlight?" -starts walking inside the demi-plane-460Please respect copyright.PENANAuxPCRBFyOU
Raven: -looks back at the elevator then to Yang- "Don't take too long. Hurry up."460Please respect copyright.PENANAFfHpi4Tq3k
Yang: -waves- "I will." -she gets to the lamp and touches the side- "It's real. Whoa."460Please respect copyright.PENANAEymK4GfjEp
Raven: -looked behind her hearing the flapping of wings- Damn it! -looks to Yang- "Get out of there so I can seal it. I don't want to deal with your uncle."460Please respect copyright.PENANAPq00EVXxxf
Yang: -turns and starts back to the door- "He's not that bad. I bet he might even enjoy seeing you for more than a moment, like upstairs."460Please respect copyright.PENANAEzvivEHBmD
Raven: "He was ready to kill me up there and-" -the flapping gets closer and then the sound of fabric in wind. Quickly she drew her blade and sliced through the air, opening a portal- "Don't mess with that item. I'll be back in a few minutes if you hang out here when you get them gone. I don't need Ozpin on my back."460Please respect copyright.PENANAMew8oYtfRJ
Yang: "Wait!" -shouts and reaches out as she runs only for Raven to vanish through the portal that closes as Qrow lands and catches Ozpin in his early teen body (Oscar but Ozpin is able to regenerate himself a new body from training his focus, aura and semblance). Yang sighs defeated and turns to them in the doorway- "Hey guys. What's up?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAuqlO53Q7lf
Qrow: "We wanted to check on you. The others upstairs booked it and I was worried about you with my sister. Which...where is she?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAkrRfyz6n4e
Yang: "She had to go take care of something."460Please respect copyright.PENANAhZbvmHg3Yz
Ozpin: -his eyes land on the open door and his face falls- "Miss Long...who opened that door?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAuySBrMmckP
Yang: -puts her hands behind her head, doing a relaxed pose with one foot crossed over in front of the other while standing- "Dunno. Might'a been Cinder. Was open when I showed up."460Please respect copyright.PENANA3PSESAT8FF
Qrow: -eyes Yang suspiciously- "You said your mother had gone off. She was down here with you."460Please respect copyright.PENANALnBfVduWq4
Yang: -rolls her eyes- "Yeah, she was keeping Cinder away from the open door. After that we talked about how our lives have been and then she left to go take care of things."460Please respect copyright.PENANAfwkqf64efT
Ozpin: "In any case, we'll need to take the relic with us. We can't leave it here with the door open. Anyone can get it and we wouldn't know."460Please respect copyright.PENANAhaXO9yUTz5
Yang: -folds her arms- "What does it do?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAJBDkEOI5ph
Ozpin: "I'll explain later. For now, we need to get it."460Please respect copyright.PENANA9ZJWGoPmFZ
Yang: -looks over to the side as Qrow starts walking inside- "You guys sure you can't just go up and send the elevator back down for me and I come back up later?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAzS6W4VNDGn
Qrow: -stops just inside on the sand- "What would that change? Besides, just goes one way when it has people on it, and without Raven here with her portals, you would be stuck down here." -continues-460Please respect copyright.PENANAnEVBStpG5m
Ozpin: "Is there a reason you don't want us here?" -looks her face over-460Please respect copyright.PENANAEHhmqKuaCt
Yang: -avoids eye contact- "It was just a question because I wanted to see if she might show back up."460Please respect copyright.PENANAZqDiFsn0jr
Ozpin: "You...said Cinder...had opened the door?" -Yang nods as Oz looks at the spring green trees- "...Interesting information. Seems she has somehow taken in two maiden powers somehow..." -he pondered, holding his chin with arms folded-460Please respect copyright.PENANAMqq0PzgoPo
Yang: -walks inside with Qrow who picks up the lamp- "Hey, how about I carry that for you?"460Please respect copyright.PENANAfhRiS5KmMx
Qrow: -looks to Yang- "I got it. Now come on. We gotta get going. Oz wants to check in on Ironwood." -starts out with Yang following-460Please respect copyright.PENANAN2WBBefZCL
Yang: "How's everyone else?"460Please respect copyright.PENANArtwRG0HDqV
Qrow: "Tired but fine overall."460Please respect copyright.PENANAgB1nc0Bp2m
Yang: -sighs- "That's good."460Please respect copyright.PENANAhpYpxh1iOi
-They arrive and get on the platform, all three headed back up. Yang gives one last look back, turns her gaze down and rubs her upper arm. Oz turns his gaze carefully to the uncertain looking Yang but stays quiet and looks forward as the statue returns to the surface under the balcony-460Please respect copyright.PENANA8IrsCuGPfa