(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-258Please respect copyright.PENANA4dJYZzYzNR
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.258Please respect copyright.PENANAgVCzbEYHxh
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAPusIOW4QxQ
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?258Please respect copyright.PENANAOta4USDTfC
Maiden: -snaps- "No!"258Please respect copyright.PENANAkFB6iMqRDU
Raven: Got it, no peaking either.258Please respect copyright.PENANA4Ei5jKvTKc
Yang: -jumps down, stands and approaches- "Raven, I'm glad to see you're alright."258Please respect copyright.PENANAj3zrNa47af
Raven: -jumps and turns quickly, hand lowered- "Yang. What are you doing here? I told you to handle things with your father."258Please respect copyright.PENANAvRSCwetqUi
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAmz9Q3sZjU2
Raven: -shakes her head- "Well the deed is done here. We should return." -starts walking to Yang and towards the elevator-258Please respect copyright.PENANAWKjC9o0oAb
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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAjMUFWH6wXV
Raven: -turns- "It's nothing now let's go Yang."258Please respect copyright.PENANApVYowVe3T4
Yang: "No, tell me what this is." -looks back to Raven- "You said no more secrets yet you're still keeping some."258Please respect copyright.PENANAZxLYH9iSoq
Raven: "I guess I did..." -takes a breath- "It's made and sealed by magic, the same which turns me into a raven."258Please respect copyright.PENANAkFDeAbPHEZ
Yang: "What's inside?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAmGWsYUOj6s
Raven: "An item that should stay there. Now, as I've said before, let us be going."258Please respect copyright.PENANAQNhz2vFlBz
Yang: "How do you know it should stay inside?" -puts hand on multi-fan door- "Or even what is inside?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAyz4R8TDo2U
Raven: -inhales, exhales- "I just do now-"258Please respect copyright.PENANAoVSmlQTBe6
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANANagyBrl2Rp
Raven: -motions to Yang's missing arm- "And you listened so well with that warning a year ago."258Please respect copyright.PENANAv8AVDNkRKL
Yang: -looks to her half limb then to Raven- "I had to protect my teammate. Now, tell me what's inside or show me."258Please respect copyright.PENANAF9khSHv7qE
Raven: -looks to the elevator then to the door- What do you think? Should I show her?258Please respect copyright.PENANAOb6Ycwu7ht
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAcHe7a3oRxx
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAdWbBTQUk0K
Yang: "Right, dad used to read it to me and Ruby, continuing the routine mom started when we were very little."258Please respect copyright.PENANANHmWqXlfMX
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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAL38WOQNiI9
Yang: -shocked at the sight and slowly looks to Raven- "So you're..."258Please respect copyright.PENANA23bt1b040O
Raven: -eyes stop glowing as she lowers her hand- "The Spring Maiden."258Please respect copyright.PENANA28IU4ZLCmn
Yang: "Did you-?!"258Please respect copyright.PENANAuj0dRbdqii
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAGKBMVuC3yg
Yang: "Dandi?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAEh5heP1TtX
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAlvykXtk4bo
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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAgDW54jVlUG
Raven: -looks back at the elevator then to Yang- "Don't take too long. Hurry up."258Please respect copyright.PENANAtQCTJZNped
Yang: -waves- "I will." -she gets to the lamp and touches the side- "It's real. Whoa."258Please respect copyright.PENANAwJH60cTVFe
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAGyoX3gwR5p
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAJZo76zk9p4
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAjzXKgvvoMT
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?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAP5CgJcbcaL
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?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAyzM4Yhdl4R
Yang: "She had to go take care of something."258Please respect copyright.PENANAFnkQ7tBMAI
Ozpin: -his eyes land on the open door and his face falls- "Miss Long...who opened that door?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAL4Thx5YMNI
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANA1WxUVUtLdI
Qrow: -eyes Yang suspiciously- "You said your mother had gone off. She was down here with you."258Please respect copyright.PENANAmnatqBYxUN
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAIlhksWktks
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."258Please respect copyright.PENANAa7soeARqJp
Yang: -folds her arms- "What does it do?"258Please respect copyright.PENANA4PAB1F5f5c
Ozpin: "I'll explain later. For now, we need to get it."258Please respect copyright.PENANAipwMSeecnP
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?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAjVF7xoeHXq
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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAlD1udrQ73t
Ozpin: "Is there a reason you don't want us here?" -looks her face over-258Please respect copyright.PENANAw3Xuedd9QW
Yang: -avoids eye contact- "It was just a question because I wanted to see if she might show back up."258Please respect copyright.PENANAnTcs2JCobL
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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAhI9UhmXnEl
Yang: -walks inside with Qrow who picks up the lamp- "Hey, how about I carry that for you?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAq2sRM9zKuL
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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAsAFetoNby4
Yang: "How's everyone else?"258Please respect copyright.PENANAZkzJYoLGnJ
Qrow: "Tired but fine overall."258Please respect copyright.PENANAZKmgjYMFT6
Yang: -sighs- "That's good."258Please respect copyright.PENANAD7io0ly9tT
-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-258Please respect copyright.PENANAjFlVJxkLJ4