(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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTW6GDYjBu3
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.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4zBmvFWyR
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzJkMF0hSY
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?461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUaZKeAhcu
Maiden: -snaps- "No!"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKQmQstlSR
Raven: Got it, no peaking either.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ085SGJyC3N
Yang: -jumps down, stands and approaches- "Raven, I'm glad to see you're alright."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7LGvIzz6v
Raven: -jumps and turns quickly, hand lowered- "Yang. What are you doing here? I told you to handle things with your father."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHAV2TVDFg
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDHGEMvnyn
Raven: -shakes her head- "Well the deed is done here. We should return." -starts walking to Yang and towards the elevator-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZGfGmCePp
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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7FPv0kNrh
Raven: -turns- "It's nothing now let's go Yang."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIp5s2iuC59
Yang: "No, tell me what this is." -looks back to Raven- "You said no more secrets yet you're still keeping some."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IPJjhfpWR
Raven: "I guess I did..." -takes a breath- "It's made and sealed by magic, the same which turns me into a raven."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcG6Jp3hDR
Yang: "What's inside?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyOcf5oJBO
Raven: "An item that should stay there. Now, as I've said before, let us be going."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pqNg2o7de
Yang: "How do you know it should stay inside?" -puts hand on multi-fan door- "Or even what is inside?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0O8HlOS2r6
Raven: -inhales, exhales- "I just do now-"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30BevtrqKq
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Qp4EKCsGT
Raven: -motions to Yang's missing arm- "And you listened so well with that warning a year ago."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexzfjLrpdh
Yang: -looks to her half limb then to Raven- "I had to protect my teammate. Now, tell me what's inside or show me."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBRMOAX2Y4
Raven: -looks to the elevator then to the door- What do you think? Should I show her?461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJVdmFOI8I
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTZiFbxxHn
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjNFSHtKL3
Yang: "Right, dad used to read it to me and Ruby, continuing the routine mom started when we were very little."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sH7zGHjbl
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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPg2jEHHLM
Yang: -shocked at the sight and slowly looks to Raven- "So you're..."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOmLImNB0e
Raven: -eyes stop glowing as she lowers her hand- "The Spring Maiden."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBDx3h4aU6
Yang: "Did you-?!"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5VTk8LsMt
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDKVoBG6Dd
Yang: "Dandi?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVytwHwqAQ
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMA8lJnujnI
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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHPGBN4sV2
Raven: -looks back at the elevator then to Yang- "Don't take too long. Hurry up."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3jOq0EpIg
Yang: -waves- "I will." -she gets to the lamp and touches the side- "It's real. Whoa."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2HDMA5qh0
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3lL5GBw8H
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGuaFDiA8A
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpOaThmnUg
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?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSpajpx1iT
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?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaEqB86odG
Yang: "She had to go take care of something."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAqflQyAn5
Ozpin: -his eyes land on the open door and his face falls- "Miss Long...who opened that door?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAXDphbtTp
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTG2De9l5ah
Qrow: -eyes Yang suspiciously- "You said your mother had gone off. She was down here with you."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHHzRvpIBo
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOfJi9yUrW
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."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWA4HVlQTl
Yang: -folds her arms- "What does it do?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOS82M5xKlc
Ozpin: "I'll explain later. For now, we need to get it."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKZOCuq5Tb
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?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRf2hCI6tr
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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHwyuRFwrk
Ozpin: "Is there a reason you don't want us here?" -looks her face over-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s9hZbzgil
Yang: -avoids eye contact- "It was just a question because I wanted to see if she might show back up."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMUTy7flwd
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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesYzwU4Jpr
Yang: -walks inside with Qrow who picks up the lamp- "Hey, how about I carry that for you?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMLnyM690l
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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLdHsq3HJD
Yang: "How's everyone else?"461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrL6TVPUb6q
Qrow: "Tired but fine overall."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmy4wAgeky
Yang: -sighs- "That's good."461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4sVkNGdZu
-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-461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwV2kAH8ge
