The Vault of the Spring Maiden was entirely silent as Raven and Cinder stared off against each other.

"Vernal was just a decoy. How clever." Cinder mused. "The last spring maiden must have trusted you an awful lot..."

Raven, enraged by Cinder's remark, fired her sword out of it's sheath and towards Cinder who deflected it before it was caught again by Raven who slashed out at her, now clashing her sword with Cinder's glass blade.

Cinder's sword was starting to crack from the pressure of Raven's sword but then she heated her sword up and Raven's was starting to crack, both swords shattered as Raven quickly put her weapon's handle back into it's sheath and took out a green blade now, slashing up at Cinder and launching herself into the air with her maiden power.

The two crashed right into the tree above the relic chamber entrance in the vault, creating a sizable crater as Cinder was starting to push back with both of her hands heated up. She then shoved Raven off by firing a blast of fire behind her with her feet and the two maidens landed back where they started.

Cinder then formed two burning swords of glass in her hand while Raven rushed at her with a blue blade now attached to Omen they clashed and again shattered each other's weapons before Raven again clashed with her now with an orange blade that exploded slightly upon impact stabbing into Cinder's arm as she backed away and her arm shook from the pain.

"Seems like limbs aren't Salem's strong suit." Raven commented snidely.

"Small talk isn't yours." Cinder glared before forming a bow in her hand and firing arrows out at Raven.

Raven started to dodge to the side of the arrows being fired her way, slicing through all the ones that got too close before she transformed into her avian form, making her a harder target for Cinder to hit before Cinder lost her in the darkness of the chasm below the vault.

"It also seems like your depth perception is off." Raven remarked, now standing behind her. Cinder turned herself around and swung her bow at Raven, but took a clean hit to her stomach from Omen, a yellow blade attached as she flew across the vault and landed several feet away, sparking with electricity from the blade she was just hit by.

Cinder forced herself to her feet, breathing heavily before throwing out a fireball in Raven's direction that Raven rolled under, now moving in to close their distance again.

The two maidens clashed blades again with Raven speeding off of her, using ice to skate around Cinder or avoid her attacks by making a pillar of ice as she jumped up and attempted to bring her sword down on Cinder who blocked the attack and backed away.

Rocks started to rise as Cinder floated herself up, surrounded with a sphere of molten rocks while Raven rose up to meet her surrounded by a sphere of wind and rocks. The flew at each other and clashed blades again, throwing their blades at each other and catching them before clashing with each other's weapons several times before tossing them back. The blades shattered against them as they both backed away to the edge of the room, still floating.

Cinder finally focused the molten rock all around her, forming a giant sword of it that seemed to be melting partially.

Raven took a deep breath and created a sword out of the rocks floating around her, freezing it to hold it together.

The blades met each other right in the center of the Vault, causing an eruption that would shake even the academy above it.

The elemental swords shattered against each other, resulting in the two maidens falling past each other from the force of their own attacks, with Raven quickly catching herself, but Cinder stumbling before catching herself.

Raven looked forward, as she was standing in front of the lift out of the vault.

A Grimm arm shot forward before Raven had any time to react and grabbed her throat, shoving her harshly against the gate that was in front of the lift.

The power of the Spring Maiden was starting to be siphoned from Raven as she felt a tinge of weakness from this feeling of her life force being drained.

She looked up and smirked before stabbing Cinder's arm with Omen, forcing her to let go.

Raven held her throat for this moment before then firing out a blast of ice that froze Cinder's feet in place, confusing her as stalactites from the roof above fell and crushed Cinder while Raven then with a gust of wind boosted herself up onto the top of one, looking down.

Cinder followed up after her, boosting herself into the air with fire, finally meeting with Raven and forming two blades of glass in her hands.

This is the end,
Here's where you'll die,

Raven raised up Omen to block Cinder's attack and countered with a single vertical slash before speeding to another falling stalactite while Cinder jumped up to the top of another one.

Legends should scatter,
So just say Goodbye.

The two flew at each other full force, clashing several times as the flew back and forth before Cinder with her fist raised up slammed into the one Raven stood upon, forcing her into the air.

No one will miss you,
When you're finally gone
At your conclusion,
Sing your swan song

Cinder started to form two more swords in her hands but Raven flew down and cut her off, shattering the unformed blades as Cinder landed on a falling rock.

Raven kicked off two smaller chunks of the falling stalactite Cinder had shattered and ran after Cinder who ran to the end of this one with an orange blade attached to Omen now.

Murder,
Unkindness,
Conspiracy,
Embers extinguished in effigy

A fireball thrown from Cinder missed Raven as a rock then fell on onto her that was split in two as Raven slid forward on ice that boosted her, again shattering two more blades as Cinder tried to form them. She smiled as she turned to face Cinder. She was looking increasingly infuriated with Raven's smug demeanor.

Just close your eyes,
Don't fear demise

Omen was swung several times in Cinder's direction, the fall maiden barely being able to form blades in her hand to block the oncoming attacks as Raven slammed her sword down at her and she jumped away.

Black out the sky,
All Things must die...

Raven followed after Cinder jumping after her before throwing her sword and stabbing it into a rock, vaulting off of it and kicking Cinder in the chest, launching her back into another rock before they finally reached the vault again.

As the dust settled Cinder's Aura shattered as she tried to stand but fell to her knees.

Raven smirked, still standing with her aura in tact, looking down at her. "Are we done here?" she asked.

Cinder coughed, gritting her teeth, looking up at her now. "SHUT UP!"

She started to form a blade of glass in her hand when suddenly a shot stuck her back, leaving a visible burn on it.

It was Vernal, with her last breath getting the last laugh on Cinder.

Taking this chance provided to her, Raven sped around Cinder and with charged electricity in one hand blasted Cinder on the side of the face, shattering her mask and sending her barreling into the chasm below. As she fell, her body started to freeze over from ice Raven mixed into that attack.

Cinder could only stare up hatefully at the platform as she sank into the abyss.

Raven took a deep breath before looking towards the vault.

Gritting his teeth in anger, Hazel entered the grand hall, glaring down at Oscar and Yang who was still dodging and deflecting shots from Lionheart.

"Um Yang!" Oscar spoke up, now the one in control as Hazel stepped forward.

"I'll kill you, over and OVER AGAIN!" he was about to slam his fist down into Oscar when suddenly a glowing stinger would stab Hazel and pull him towards the entrance, slamming him to the ground in front of a fully recovered Weiss Schnee.

Weiss stood up confidently in front of Hazel as the brute slammed a fist in the ground and ran at her.

Jaune let out a sigh of relief before unsheathing Crocea Mors, ready to enter the fray again.

"Hey Jaune!" Nora and Ren stumbled over, looking exhausted and worn out. "Can you help us out now?"

"It'd be appreciated." Ren held his side.

"This is my life now isn't it?" Jaune groaned as he sheathed his weapon and went to help his teammates out.

Qrow interjected and slashed up at Hazel with Harbinger in it's sword form while Weiss sped around him.

Ruby and Oscar were now dealing with Emerald and Mercury as Lionheart seemed focused on reloading the dust into his weapon for the moment. Yang readied another shot when she heard the door to the Grand Hall open.

"Yang?!" Blake called out from across the hall as she entered, getting the attention of everyone else as well. "Ruby?! Weiss?! Wait everyone's here?!"

"Yang, go to the vault now!" Ruby called out. "We can't let Cinder get the relic!"

"Right!" Yang turned her attention back to the task at hand and ran towards the vault, Ruby deflected Emerald's weapon with a shot from Crescent Rose.

Mercury kicked Oscar in the face, knocking him on his back, now pursuing Yang and stepping in front of her.

"Out of my way!" Yang yelled, clashing briefly with Mercury who blocked her punches and aimed a kick at her face, a kick that she caught with her prosthetic arm.

With a slight smirk, Yang did something unexpected she popped her prosthetic arm off and sent it and Mercury into the base of a staircase while she jumped down into the vault after the two maidens and her mother.

Mercury quickly stood himself back up and started towards the vault entrance with Emerald, only for Ruby and now Weiss to stand in their way, Weiss creating a large wall of ice in front of the vault entrance.

"You're not getting anywhere near my sister again." Ruby glared at Mercury as Hazel, dragging the Queen Lancer summon on the ground by it's body, stepped over and crushed it's head under his boot.

Emerald and Mercury smirked up towards Hazel who cracked his knuckles, having calmed himself down from his rage episode now.

"So what's the story with the big guy?" Weiss asked, taking a step back.

"He doesn't like Ozpin." Ruby stated flatly as she readied her stance.

Hazel raised a fist up, Emerald and Mercury clearly waiting for his first attack.

Blake then hooked Gambol Shroud onto a pillar on the rafters and pulled herself right at them, kicking Hazel in the back and landing herself right beside Ruby and Weiss.

"Blake!" Ruby smiled to her.

"Sorry I ran..." Blake looked down.

"We can talk about that later." Weiss stated as Hazel stood himself back up.

Lionheart glared angrily at Ruby, aiming his weapon at her when a shot rang out from across the Atrium, it was from Qrow, who landed on the steps, adjacent to his position. Professor Lionheart's aura shattered as Teams SSSN and ABRN entered the Grand Hall and looked at their headmaster, expressing clear disappointment in their faces.

Feeling Cornered, Leonardo Lionheart did the one thing he'd always been hoping of doing, he ran away. He made his escape out the back door of the Grand Hall.

"After him!" Arslan commanded as her team and Team SSSN followed in pursuit of their headmaster.

"Oh come on-" Mercury barely had any time to express his annoyance when Blake and Weiss rushed at him with full force, assaulting him with slashes and stabs that he had a hard time keeping up with, even if he did manage to block and dodge a couple of them.

"Checkmate!" Ruby called out before speeding around Hazel and hooking her scythe around His legs and firing a shot out, tripping him onto his face before he could even realize where she went.

Emerald fired shots out at Ruby from behind, but those shots would all be deflected by Weiss, who now stood between her and Ruby.

"Mercury what are you-" she turned over to see Mercury collapse to his knees with a shattered aura, and Blake standing over him.

Hazel stood himself back up behind Ruby and threw a punch out at her.

The punch wouldn't make contact as Nora, having been boosted by Jaune's semblance was able to reach him in time and catch his hand with both of her's.

"NICE TRY BIG GUY!" Nora threw him over her shoulder and into the center of the Grand Hall. "But you just messed with one of my friends!"

Ren aimed both of his Stormflower guns at Hazel and Jaune unsheathed Crocea Mors. Hazel let out a roar while Weiss stood off against Emerald.

Raven carefully stepped over Vernal's body as she approached the door at the end of the vault. She took a deep breath, looking back to Vernal. "Thank you."

One hand pressed against the door as the mechanism started to activate, the door opening up in it's complex and unique manner with the door slowly folding itself up before it opened, with a huge heat wave blasting Raven in the face.

There was the relic, on a small altar in the middle of this strange desert that existed within this door. The sky inside was blue and all Raven needed to do now was walk in and grab the relic.

The moment she took a step forward however, several gunshots were heard and a loud thud impacting the ground behind her.

Gritting her teeth in frustration she turned to see who was going to stand in her way now.

It was just her daughter, Yang who rose to her feet and glared at her.

Commentary: So Cinder vs Raven's still a thing here, same overall ending, though certain dialogue was removed like Raven pointing out Cinder's Grimm arm and then doing nothing about it. Rather than that, Raven does get a stab in on it. Also Blake doesn't randomly leave the Grand Hall when she first approaches it for no real reason. Especially since changed the order of events. Also there's no cut away from Checkmate. We get Mercury's defeat, Yang rushing to get to the vault with Emerald and Mercury also being a little smarter than before, but still getting stopped.

Overall this chapter is things starting to wrap up, including us finally getting a Weiss vs Emerald fight, although it's not gonna last too long, especially with Weiss being almost fully charged up again.