The library had four main pillars in the middle each topped with a statue.
"I remember seeing something about the statues in the diary," Torchwick commented, "See if you can figure it out kid."
Sun opened the diary and saw that each statue had to face a specific way for the path to open. He turned them and a bookcase on the wall revealed a secret passage.
"Oooh, a secret passage? Always good stuff in those!" Ruby exclaimed.
Weiss rolled her eyes, "Not always. We have plenty of secret passages in Schnee manor; most just lead outside."
"Really?" Winter raised an eyebrow, "I did not know that."
Weiss shrugged, "Klien showed me. That's how I got out without Father noticing." Her shrugged turned into a sheepish look, "After I locked him in a room with General Ironwood."
Winter groaned, "So you're the reason he was extra irritable that day!"
Qrow shrugged, "Can't blame Jimmy there. I'd be miserable stuck in a room with that man too."
The secret passage led to another library, which disappointed Torchwick. "Ah, hell!"
"Who needs a secret library? Seems a waste when the other library is perfectly good." Nora pointed out.
Yang chuckled, "Blake does! That way she can hide her smut from everyone else."
"Yang!" Blake exclaimed in shock and embarrassment.
"Well, she's not wrong." Ruby defended her sister. "You really shouldn't leave those out where I-I mean anyone could see them."
Blake went pale. The implications that fifteen-year-old Ruby and seen the books she had brought to Beacon meant Yang might kill her later, regardless of her feelings.
Thankfully, Yang seemed not to notice the slip of the tongue.
"What now?" Velvet asked.
Sun saw two unlit torches fixed to the wall. The design of the torches seemed familiar to him.
He opened the diary to see the torch upside down with a small note next to it, "The inverted torch leads to the land of the dead," He read, sending shivers down Velvet's spine.
"Oh, so we just stand Roman on his head and we find the treasure? Why didn't we do that in the first place!" Neo joked.
Roman chuckled, "Good to have you back, Neo."
He turned the torches upside down and the mural on the wall sunk into the floor. Behind it was a small, cave like passage.
"Well," Sun smirked, "This looks promising."
"A secret passage in a secret passage?" Ruby was mind-blown, "That's insane!"
Jaune shrugged, "Maybe a little overkill, not quite insane yet though."
They all nodded as Sun came up with a plan, "Okay, you two sit tight. I'm gonna check things out."
Velvet didn't like that idea, "Woah, woah, wait, no. You're not going out there alone."
Ren nodded, "Considering the number of antagonists they are dealing with, plus whoever is setting the traps, it would be foolish to continue alone."
Ozpin nodded in agreement.
Torchwick agreed, "Yeah, Taurus's men are swarming all over this place!"
"Yeah, and one person'll make a lot less noise than three," Sun reasoned.
"That's a good point actually," Ilia commented, "If Adam has that many goons, a single person might be able to sneak past his defenses."
Torchwick had a conflicted look on his face. Sun was right but something felt…
"Hinky, we know!" The whole audience save Roman groaned.
"C'mon. I'll be fine!" Sun reassured him, "And you guy's will be safe here. They don't even know about this room!"
Torchwick sighed, "Okay, but call me if you run into anything."
"All right," Sun nodded, "you got it! Now, close this thing back up." Sun moved to enter, as Torchwick moved to one of the torches.
Gordeau started, "Sun is about to say something that most of you will object to, but please refrain from commenting for a few seconds."
Everyone nodded, confused by what he meant.
Velvet, however, stopped Sun, "Sun?" she started nervously, "Be careful."
Sun chuckled, "C'mon, I always am."
He turned around and smacked his head on the low-hanging door frame.
"OW!" he exclaimed, "I did not see that!"
Bellowing laughter blasted from the audience. It continued for a good five minutes before Blake wiped a tear from her eye, "Oh, I needed that!"
"The perils of being tall!" Jaune laughed out, "I know your pain!"
Velvet smirked before moving to the other torch and closing the mural.
Sun made his way through the newly discovered catacombs. He was only underground briefly before they led up into a cathedral.
After taking out some goons he swapped his 9-millimeter for a Desert 5. He then noticed that two bells were situated at opposite ends of the hall.
"Oooh, better gun!" Ruby cheered, happy to see weapons again.
"There's something about this in the diary," he thought as he pulled it out and read the caption by the bells, "Two bells resound in perfect harmony."
Quickly thinking, he shot both bells.
One of the walls opened up revealing another underground passage. Suddenly a thought came to him and he chuckled.
"Okay, the amount of secret passages in just ridiculous now!" Pyrrha noticed.
In a bad imitation of Torchwick, he started, "We've got all the clues right here. We can do this kid!" He dropped the imitation before continuing, "How does he plan to get a five-hundred-pound statue out of here anyway?"
"I don't sound like that, do I?" Roman asked.
"Nah, he's just bad at impressions," Ilia stated.
"He brings up a good point though," Summer noted, "How does he plan on getting it out of there?"
Roman thought for a moment before shrugging, "I'm sure we'll come up with something."
He continued through the caves before he began to hear Schnee's voice above him, "This is completely unacceptable."
"Father?" Weiss asked, already knowing the answer.
Sun noticed that he was directly under them, in some sort of crypt.
Not being able to see, Sun was surprised when Tyrian started talking, "Well, what do you expect from me, Schnee? My men are getting massacred!"
"We noticed," Cinder chuckled, seeing her second least favorite co-worker so distressed.
Schnee chuckled, "I find it hard to believe that one man could wipe out your entire crew."
The screen moved up from Sun, showing Tyrian standing, Jacque sitting smoking a cigarette, and Taurus looking over maps.
"Father smoking?" Winter laughed, "Now I've seen everything."
Roman scoffed, "And a cigarette at that too, at least get a godsdamned cigar! You're rich enough for it."
Tyrian groaned and looked visible annoyed, "It's not just Wukong, dammit! I'm telling you this island is cursed!"
"Add superstitious to his already impressive resume of traits," Raven stated with an eye roll.
"Yeah, he's not winning himself any points with Schnee, that's for sure!" Tai agreed.
"Enough!" Jacques was done listening to the deranged man, "Take your sorry mob and go."
Tyrian looked like he was about to agree but stopped, "Wait, you can't cut me loose. You owe me a share of the treasure!"
Jacques didn't even raise his voice, "You're share, Tyrian, was contingent on upon you doing what I required."
Weiss sighed, "This is so like Father. Everyone else changed slightly in this universes, but this is pretty much exactly Father."
Jacques stood up and got right in Tyrian's face, "You assured me Wukong was captured, and the island was secured."
Tyrian was furious, "Oh, this is bullshit Schnee and you know it."
"What was that?!" Adam yelled standing up.
Mercury smirked, "That's a pretty common phrase. I'm surprised you've never heard it before."
"WHAT?!" Adam yelled turning to the assassin.
Blake shuddered, "He's never heard it because no one in the White Fang dared risk his wrath."
Taurus growled at the phrase and Jacques smirked as the bull pulled a gun on Tyrian.
"We're done here, Mr. Callows." Jacques ended in his usual business tone.
He walked over to a drain in the floor and threw his cigarette down it. It fell right on Sun's face but thankfully he kept quiet.
"Asshole!" Sun muttered.
Tyrian looked back and forth between Taurus and Jacques before shouting a string of expletives and storming off.
Jacques turned to Taurus, "Remind me again why you employed that superstitious idiot."
Taurus shrugged, "You wanted someone cheap."
"You were right, sister," Weiss noticed, "Lowest bidder."
Winter chuckled, "I did say that, didn't I."
Jacques chuckled, "Well, you get what you pay for, I suppose. And what about you, Taurus? Are you worth what I'm paying you?"
"The vaults here." Taurus stated with fire in his eyes, "I'm sure of it. If Roman can be trusted…"
"Which we all know that those two can't trust him!" Qrow scoffed.
"Which he can't." Jacque interrupted.
Eyes went wide, "He knows? How does he know?" Roman asked in shock.
"Sorry, Candle-Brain, guess you didn't pull one over on him anyway." Qrow muttered.
"Look," Taurus reasoned, "He knows we'll kill him if he's lying."
"Don't be stupid," Jacque scoffed, "He knows we'll kill him once we find the treasure. He has no incentive to tell the truth."
"Logically that makes sense," Cinder noted, "I mean that's what I would do!"
Raven glared at the fall maiden, "You did, or do you forget trying to kill me and actually killing my right hand in that vault?"
Cinder smirked, "You're just upset you couldn't finish the job."
Jacque sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Really, Taurus, sometimes I think you left your brains back in that slum where I found you."
"WHAT!?" Adam yelled again.
Weiss shrugged, "That's just Father's way of saying 'I never should have hired you,' he doesn't mean he actually found you in a slum."
Adam looked puzzled at the younger Schnee, wondering why she would try to comfort him.
Taurus growled, recognizing the threat, "I just need a little more time!"
Jacque sat down, "Chasing this treasure of yours is proving to be more trouble than it's probably worth."
"I agree with that!" Sun exclaimed, but no one else seemed to hear him.
Taurus looked at him with no tone of joking in his voice, not that that surprised anyone, "I assure you; El Dorado is worth more than you could possible imagine."
Jacque's gaze hardened, "It had better be."
Sun had heard everything, but was slightly confused. Good news, he didn't have to deal with Tyrian anymore. Bad news, Taurus knew something about El Dorado he wasn't telling. The question was, what was it?
Emerald shuddered, "This adds even more to my theory that somethings not right. If Taurus knows more than he's letting on, it has to be bad."
Sun made it out of the catacombs and Torchwick called him, "Sun? It looks like there's a secret gallery at the top of the church, think you can get there?"
"On my way now, Torchwick, thanks for the info." He hung up and headed back to the church.
Climbing up to the second floor, Sun found an open window and jumped in. He suddenly realized that the only floor up there was the small balcony seating he was in right now. It was a good fifteen foot drop to the floor.
Looking at the other end, he saw a stained-glass window with a burning heart on it. On the walls next to it were two giant keys.
"Two key's and a heart, huh?" Sun pondered, "not quite the treasure vault but it's gotta be a clue of some kind."
Swinging from the tarnished chandeliers, Sun made his way across the cathedral and smashed through the window.
"There had to be a better way to do that, Sun!" Blake scolded.
Sun shrugged, "Eh, not worth the time it would take. This was much faster."
Blake was about to criticize him some more, but realized her partner would probably do the same thing.
Sun was now in the secret gallery. It was a small semi-circle room with multiple windows. One, however had the symbol he was looking for on it.
"The symbol for the treasure vault!" Neo realized.
"All right, let's see where it is!" Roman stated, excitedly.
Sun opened the window and looked out. Across the courtyard he saw the symbol again, right on the building Jacque and Taurus were currently in.
"You've gotta be shitting me!" Roman swore.
"Bad luck strikes again," Qrow growled.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Sun sighed before he called Torchwick.
"Hey, Torchwick. Remember Schnee and Taurus, and that you had misled them?"
"Yeah?" Torchwick replied, suspicious about what was going to come next.
"Well, they're sitting right on top of the treasure vault!" Sun said plainly.
"Of all the luck!" Roman scoffed before seeing the look on Sun's face, "Sorry."
"Look," Sun continued, ignoring the accidental jab, "I'm gonna need a diversion to get them out of there."
"Now diversions I can do!" Roman smirked.
"Careful, Roman," Neo warned, "Your diversion's normally end with you being injured."
"I don't think he cares, Sundae," Ilia quipped.
Roman smirked over the scroll, "You got it kid. One diversion coming right up."
"And Torchwick?" Sun got out before they hung up, "Once their gone meet me in the mausoleum, but come through the catacombs, it's safer that way."
Torchwick nodded and hung up. Sun looked down at all the goons in the cemetery and sighed, "This might take a while."
"Oh, this ought to be good," Mercury rolled his eyes.
AN: I got nothing to say about this one. It's short, but only because I couldn't shove it into either the last one or the next one without making them incredibly long. See you next time.
