(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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAAfzcMlvmfu
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.576Please respect copyright.PENANAS7rXPzpPa8
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANA7ZqGocQCV8
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?576Please respect copyright.PENANAgpt7sTRiZK
Maiden: -snaps- "No!"576Please respect copyright.PENANA70NYY8W3mY
Raven: Got it, no peaking either.576Please respect copyright.PENANAtoepm03NIC
Yang: -jumps down, stands and approaches- "Raven, I'm glad to see you're alright."576Please respect copyright.PENANAahzMbwhlCk
Raven: -jumps and turns quickly, hand lowered- "Yang. What are you doing here? I told you to handle things with your father."576Please respect copyright.PENANAcT4sKjaHhm
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANALKP8npj4Mq
Raven: -shakes her head- "Well the deed is done here. We should return." -starts walking to Yang and towards the elevator-576Please respect copyright.PENANAZcsY2FIlVG
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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAQShtgOTbNt
Raven: -turns- "It's nothing now let's go Yang."576Please respect copyright.PENANAc2fSyzMlLo
Yang: "No, tell me what this is." -looks back to Raven- "You said no more secrets yet you're still keeping some."576Please respect copyright.PENANAe8xyybBBtz
Raven: "I guess I did..." -takes a breath- "It's made and sealed by magic, the same which turns me into a raven."576Please respect copyright.PENANAIg91m18llt
Yang: "What's inside?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAplA7CMTWbB
Raven: "An item that should stay there. Now, as I've said before, let us be going."576Please respect copyright.PENANAsmm7CWY3MQ
Yang: "How do you know it should stay inside?" -puts hand on multi-fan door- "Or even what is inside?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAVO5Jx5xauc
Raven: -inhales, exhales- "I just do now-"576Please respect copyright.PENANANPjfc5p6XN
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANADbsEFBPh5o
Raven: -motions to Yang's missing arm- "And you listened so well with that warning a year ago."576Please respect copyright.PENANAIYairqApwU
Yang: -looks to her half limb then to Raven- "I had to protect my teammate. Now, tell me what's inside or show me."576Please respect copyright.PENANA5WyhjsNPO7
Raven: -looks to the elevator then to the door- What do you think? Should I show her?576Please respect copyright.PENANALAtnP7F5pE
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAOTXn2S800Z
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAeK9ezwBcu9
Yang: "Right, dad used to read it to me and Ruby, continuing the routine mom started when we were very little."576Please respect copyright.PENANAcRG97OTvHU
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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAy97ieRwNAm
Yang: -shocked at the sight and slowly looks to Raven- "So you're..."576Please respect copyright.PENANAgNiysZPwZY
Raven: -eyes stop glowing as she lowers her hand- "The Spring Maiden."576Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0vt5YpdQR
Yang: "Did you-?!"576Please respect copyright.PENANAAy3VWj3MpL
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAIUNofn1MPd
Yang: "Dandi?"576Please respect copyright.PENANA9N3gr3KwQZ
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANADhFvP5awEi
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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAXLZ1HTu33d
Raven: -looks back at the elevator then to Yang- "Don't take too long. Hurry up."576Please respect copyright.PENANAE1gpdAU7CU
Yang: -waves- "I will." -she gets to the lamp and touches the side- "It's real. Whoa."576Please respect copyright.PENANAljfZkzyjYZ
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANATvj6JcbYT6
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAuD8xBw4SPT
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANA9ztXXtFUlf
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?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAiKJbCUumNc
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?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAFqqsMNVvxj
Yang: "She had to go take care of something."576Please respect copyright.PENANA4hwAGEVrnC
Ozpin: -his eyes land on the open door and his face falls- "Miss Long...who opened that door?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAITQT52t7xp
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAnav78dYZ2o
Qrow: -eyes Yang suspiciously- "You said your mother had gone off. She was down here with you."576Please respect copyright.PENANAMMStkDcWiD
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAN4RIZ63jkz
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."576Please respect copyright.PENANAAeuiOcaSwf
Yang: -folds her arms- "What does it do?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAMEqapwRe9A
Ozpin: "I'll explain later. For now, we need to get it."576Please respect copyright.PENANAZNS8RLPNYX
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?"576Please respect copyright.PENANASw3MMohrsW
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-576Please respect copyright.PENANA6WskpRegZN
Ozpin: "Is there a reason you don't want us here?" -looks her face over-576Please respect copyright.PENANAnrbbbbTydO
Yang: -avoids eye contact- "It was just a question because I wanted to see if she might show back up."576Please respect copyright.PENANAY4M3jydpH1
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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAwcVEX8FfaC
Yang: -walks inside with Qrow who picks up the lamp- "Hey, how about I carry that for you?"576Please respect copyright.PENANATpG43sS5Iz
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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAgWe5dpyzqX
Yang: "How's everyone else?"576Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3WGLnPZXq
Qrow: "Tired but fine overall."576Please respect copyright.PENANA7vaHn2oqBJ
Yang: -sighs- "That's good."576Please respect copyright.PENANADw07SSjbdl
-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-576Please respect copyright.PENANAXFn73Tn8yG