(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-255Please respect copyright.PENANAbGtuw62VlT
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.255Please respect copyright.PENANAGoqAnycFj2
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAsxlXaSwWjf
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?255Please respect copyright.PENANAdLGdWoDBQM
Maiden: -snaps- "No!"255Please respect copyright.PENANAjqsv8YKJHA
Raven: Got it, no peaking either.255Please respect copyright.PENANAOVzIh1t6O8
Yang: -jumps down, stands and approaches- "Raven, I'm glad to see you're alright."255Please respect copyright.PENANA41FHr67fFt
Raven: -jumps and turns quickly, hand lowered- "Yang. What are you doing here? I told you to handle things with your father."255Please respect copyright.PENANACpU7q0FQel
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANACoGymqw8zc
Raven: -shakes her head- "Well the deed is done here. We should return." -starts walking to Yang and towards the elevator-255Please respect copyright.PENANAhX6xq8aWdM
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-255Please respect copyright.PENANAkYa5CRCzIJ
Raven: -turns- "It's nothing now let's go Yang."255Please respect copyright.PENANAoknAkqZ6Ff
Yang: "No, tell me what this is." -looks back to Raven- "You said no more secrets yet you're still keeping some."255Please respect copyright.PENANAseVwGZK879
Raven: "I guess I did..." -takes a breath- "It's made and sealed by magic, the same which turns me into a raven."255Please respect copyright.PENANA1tcJoh8N01
Yang: "What's inside?"255Please respect copyright.PENANAIXqBFyRbbS
Raven: "An item that should stay there. Now, as I've said before, let us be going."255Please respect copyright.PENANACCb8qRkgci
Yang: "How do you know it should stay inside?" -puts hand on multi-fan door- "Or even what is inside?"255Please respect copyright.PENANA4kYF3B019H
Raven: -inhales, exhales- "I just do now-"255Please respect copyright.PENANAw0qFQHzvJM
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAufPseQ0TyT
Raven: -motions to Yang's missing arm- "And you listened so well with that warning a year ago."255Please respect copyright.PENANAeBPqTItYBY
Yang: -looks to her half limb then to Raven- "I had to protect my teammate. Now, tell me what's inside or show me."255Please respect copyright.PENANA1SXfKyHXkT
Raven: -looks to the elevator then to the door- What do you think? Should I show her?255Please respect copyright.PENANAQthY6XfczZ
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAxsbrrtcwV3
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAH9mzjAkJVm
Yang: "Right, dad used to read it to me and Ruby, continuing the routine mom started when we were very little."255Please respect copyright.PENANAl6Rt3Fwe2Q
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-255Please respect copyright.PENANAH9iDsbqtYa
Yang: -shocked at the sight and slowly looks to Raven- "So you're..."255Please respect copyright.PENANAFksQEMIkzD
Raven: -eyes stop glowing as she lowers her hand- "The Spring Maiden."255Please respect copyright.PENANAYsaA2SHyyh
Yang: "Did you-?!"255Please respect copyright.PENANA7KggRCCIY7
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANArTJOawR4iI
Yang: "Dandi?"255Please respect copyright.PENANA9ucIyLIOvf
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAuoabFJl5ce
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-255Please respect copyright.PENANAh75bhx5CuB
Raven: -looks back at the elevator then to Yang- "Don't take too long. Hurry up."255Please respect copyright.PENANAHnyS2F0Rk9
Yang: -waves- "I will." -she gets to the lamp and touches the side- "It's real. Whoa."255Please respect copyright.PENANA5WoGRSoPc0
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAs5fRrLHDiO
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAXvBTRRR84D
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAglMazBRvIe
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?"255Please respect copyright.PENANA01r4VdI3BD
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?"255Please respect copyright.PENANAXSF5hsb4YT
Yang: "She had to go take care of something."255Please respect copyright.PENANAVN8ATKE6Un
Ozpin: -his eyes land on the open door and his face falls- "Miss Long...who opened that door?"255Please respect copyright.PENANA13Fn6SpdtG
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAUF6qPk9hqM
Qrow: -eyes Yang suspiciously- "You said your mother had gone off. She was down here with you."255Please respect copyright.PENANAw2YywInGLy
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAn2lRraTp8y
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."255Please respect copyright.PENANAH4HJJs3HVd
Yang: -folds her arms- "What does it do?"255Please respect copyright.PENANAlQHfCn6Tl4
Ozpin: "I'll explain later. For now, we need to get it."255Please respect copyright.PENANADnmaiPR17b
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?"255Please respect copyright.PENANAWQsPlm9R3T
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-255Please respect copyright.PENANA2PwuSzwSog
Ozpin: "Is there a reason you don't want us here?" -looks her face over-255Please respect copyright.PENANAv04aitVViI
Yang: -avoids eye contact- "It was just a question because I wanted to see if she might show back up."255Please respect copyright.PENANASvTGq11nhs
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-255Please respect copyright.PENANAt2nXSl1kda
Yang: -walks inside with Qrow who picks up the lamp- "Hey, how about I carry that for you?"255Please respect copyright.PENANABByis2Yo6k
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-255Please respect copyright.PENANA59qONsWGuC
Yang: "How's everyone else?"255Please respect copyright.PENANASNiUOgl090
Qrow: "Tired but fine overall."255Please respect copyright.PENANAbTDvXXDgGc
Yang: -sighs- "That's good."255Please respect copyright.PENANAAc8hDB1gSM
-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-255Please respect copyright.PENANAGNUT0M6eer