Nothing could be seen but darkness, until...

Cinder's body is seen floating in water, ice chunks surrounding her.

A closeup of her right eye suddenly opens up, twitching as she comes to terms with her current situation. Bubbles escape from her mouth as she struggles to get upright in the water. She activates her Maiden powers. The screen goes black, only Cinder gasping for breath is heard.

She is next seen crawling out of the pool of water onto the shore of an underground cave.

Cinder holds her hand out and tries to activate a small flame in her hands, but it dies out quickly. Cinder grunts in frustration, slamming her Grimm-like fist to the ground, unknowingly opening up an exit to the cave. She looks up to see light pouring through the crack as well as the sound of howling wind.

Cinder then looks up to notice the Vault under Haven Academy where she fought against Rex and Raven. Cinder then uses her Grimm fist to punch at the crack in the wall.

Cinder staggers out of the cave and into the rain. She struggles to walk for a bit before collapsing to the ground, dragging herself through the mud. A woman can be heard approaching her.

Woman: Gods, are you okay?

The woman, holding a basket of food, looks down at Cinder in concern.

Woman: Where did you...?

Cinder crawls forward, revealing her Grimm arm. The woman gasps and drops her basket.

Cinder then looks up to the frightened woman, activating her Maiden powers and smiling evilly...

Maria: Mason! I knew it was your doing!

Mason: Hi... Grandma.

Kyla: Hold up. Mason, that old lady is your grandma?

Maria: Hey, I may be old, but my hearing is still sharp as ever... At least, some of the time. (To Mason) Aren't you gonna introduce me to your friends or not?

Mason: Alright, sheesh. Guys, this is Maria Calavera, my grandmother. She's the one who taught me to use my Semblance.

Crim: Wait. I thought your last name is Myst.

Mason: It is, my full name is Mason Calavera Myst.

Crim: Well, I guess that makes sense.

Zach: Wait. How could she teach you how to fight?

Briana: No offense, Mason, but she doesn't look like she could fight a newborn puppy. (Maria hits her in the knee with her cane) OW!

Ruby scours through the train wreckage and picks up Dust bullets, before looking to see the Relic of Knowledge slightly buried in the snow nearby. Yang can be heard complaining as she struggles to get Bumblebee out of the snow with Luke's help.

Yang: Great! This is just great! We're stranded, we lost a third of our party, and we've gained Mason's defenseless grandma!

With one final heave, Luke and Yang manages to extricate Bumblebee, but falls over to the ground, with her motorcycle following suit as they partially covered in snow.

Maria: My name is Maria Calavera, and I am not defenseless! I'm just a little hard of hearing. And blind without my eyes, that are in desperate need of repair.

Maria: (taps on her prosthetics, which open wide and close, before opening narrowly again.) Okay, I'm starting to see your point.

Qrow: (grunts) Yang, knock it off, will ya? If we lose our cool now, we'll just be inviting even more Grimm.

Blake: Does that even matter? Apparently, we've been attracting Grimm ever since we left Haven.

Yang: Oh, and how could I forget about that? (turns to Oscar) What happened to no more lies and half truths?

Rin: I remember mom saying no more secrets.

Oscar: Yeah, I think it's time we got an explanation...

Oscar's eyes glow as control of his body is switched to Ozpin.

Ozpin: Indeed, Miss Xiao Long. We did make an oath about no lies of half truth.

Zach: I guess we have some trusts to each other, right?

Rex: True that.

Ruby: Yeah!

Another Beowulf was head getting dissipated off screen... Ruby turned around to see Rex hugging his own shoulders.

Ruby: You alright, Rexy?

Rex: I can't feel my arms... ACHOO!!!

Crim: You tell me, man. I'm literally cold-blooded. If we don't get out of this forest, I'm gonna die!

Elena: That's right. You're a Komodo Dragon Faunus. In this cold, reptiles can only survive the cold in 45° below, means that your body can go limb.

Crim: Well thanks very much for the update!

Maria: Looks like someone has done her homework.

Briana: Well Elena is smarter than the rest of our team, so of course she can be smart.

Mason: Don't try to fight her. Grandma can be real hard case when you get to know her.

Shane: No point getting nowhere if we argue right now.

Ozpin: Mister Azurefire is right. We still have an objective to accomplish. I'm sure General Ironwood can lend us some assist-- (suddenly stops and realizes something) Where's the Relic?

Ruby: Right here. (holds it in her hands)

Ruby: It got scattered in the crash.

Rex: I thought it was still on the train.

Ozpin: Please, hand it over.

Ozpin reaches his hand out, Ruby nods as she gives the relic to him.

Ozpin: Now, where was I? Ah, yes, let us continue our journey to Atlas. General Ironwood can lend us some assistance if Salem can really be contained.

Zach: I guess that fair. Anyone got their stuff?

Rin: Uh-huh.

Rex: We're all good, Unc.

Maria: Let's go already! I'm freezing over here!

Crim: You heard her! Let's move it!

They begin to walk away from the wreckage... However, the wind picks up much more gradually, blowing snow even harder. The Relic starts to glow in Oscar's hands.

Oscar: Uh... guys?

Zach: I notice it, too, kid.

Rex: Hmm... Hey, Oscar, can you get Ozpin back?

Oscar was confused but his eyes glow once again as Ozpin takes control once more.

Ozpin: Is there anything I can help you, Mister Venti?

Rex: About the relic. I think we should ask the question.

Ozpin: (slightly shocked) Right now?

Zach: Hold on, Rex. You for real?

Rin: Yeah, right out here?

Rex: It's just us. You see any people around? No one's not gonna notice.

Qrow: ...I guess we can ask one question.

Blake: But how can we do that?

Ozpin: You shall summon her by saying her name.

Briana: Wait. "Her"?

Rin: Who's "Her"?

Ozpin: Here, have a look. (holds up the relic and looks at it before calling her out) Jinn.

Suddenly, the snow stops, floating in midair. The wind stops blowing too.

Qrow: What?

Shane: What the hell?

Luke: Did time actually stopped?

Ozpin then lets go of the Relic as it floats a short distance away, cyan smoke emanates from it. Suddenly, the lamp is enveloped in the smoke, and from it, a giant, semi-nude feminine figure emerges. Her skin and hair is colored blue, and decorated with gold jewelry and ornaments. The figure stretches and moans as she has been awakened once again. This is Jinn, the aforementioned being inhabiting the Relic of Knowledge.

Jinn: Wonderful.

Everyone stares in awe at Jinn.

Jinn: Tell me,

Jinn: what knowledge do you seek?

Back in Mistral, Cinder, now dressed in the clothes of the woman she encountered earlier, steps out of an alleyway. Her Grimm arm is bandaged up. She looks to her left and notices a holographic screen showing portraits of her and her allies. A subtitle below says "LAST KNOWN LOCATION: HAVEN ACADEMY, APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH AGO".

Newscaster: The perpetrators, Cinder Fall, Hazel Rainart, Emerald Sustrai, and Mercury Black have still not been seen since the attack and are presumed to have fled the city. The Mistral police department is offering a reward to any citizen...

Cinder, realizing she's a wanted criminal, puts her hood up to conceal her identity. She walks out into the rainy streets of Mistral, among crowds of people with their umbrellas up. People still carry out their businesses as usual, both legally and illegally. As Cinder continues walking, she notices a symbol -

a spiderweb with a spider in it - etched into the wall.

Cinder then walks into a restaurant, with some of the customers bearing tattoos similar to the symbol she found. She then walks up to Lil' Miss Malachite, who she presumed is leader of the gang. Lil' Miss notices her just as she was about to have her meal.

Lil' Miss: That's far enough.

Her two bodyguards walk up to Cinder, blocking her way. Cinder tosses down a sack full of Lien on the table.

Lil' Miss: Okay.

The bodyguards step back and Cinder takes a seat across from her.

Cinder: You're Lil' Miss Malachite?

Lil' Miss: (takes out her hand fan) I'm Lil' Miss Gon'-Skin-You-Alive if you ever take that tone with me again. (looks to the Lien on the table) Looks like your life's savings.

Cinder: It was somebody's.

Lil' Miss: (laughs) Cute. (closes her hand fan) What do you want for it?

Cinder pulls out her scroll, showing portraits of Rex, Jaune, Ren, Nora, Team REBL, and Team RWBY.

Cinder: I'm looking for these travelers.

Lil' Miss: Well, sweetheart, you came to the right place.

Cinder jolts a little as she looks behind her, noticing a man entering and being greeted by his group of friends sitting around a table.

Lil' Miss: (chuckles) A little jumpy today, hmm? You know, I used to be afraid of spiders. Want to know what I did about it?

Cinder: Learn to kill them?

Lil' Miss: Oh no, the world needs spiders. I just made the spiders work for me.

Cinder looks around, noticing all of the customers have the tattoo of spiderweb, insinuating that they all work for Lil' Miss.

Lil' Miss: Give us a week, we'll find your travelers.

Cinder then gets up and leaves.

Bodyguard: Lil' Miss, we already know where they are. That big guy asked about 'em last week.

Lil' Miss: I know we know, but what we don't know is who here in Mistral might be asking about her...

Back in the snow, Maria adjusts her goggles to get a better look at what's in front of her.

Jinn: I am Jinn, a being created by the God of Light to aid Humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. I've been graced with the ability to answer three questions every one hundred years. You're in luck, as I am still able to answer two questions this era.

Everyone is shocked.

Jinn: (chuckles) It's a pleasure to see you again, old man.

Ozpin: It has been years, Jinn.

Jinn notices Rex standing next to Ruby, she then smiles and begins to float towards him as their faces are few inches away from each other.

Jinn: My, my, what an interesting huntsman with the greatest of the Sacred Sword Excalibur... May I ask who you are, boy?

Rex: Uhh... Rex.

Ruby and Rin quickly pull their fiance/brother away from Jinn.

Ruby: He's already mine!

Rin: Careful, lady. I know you will never hit on my little brother.

Jinn: (giggles) Fear not, girls... I have no intention of getting him for my desire, I am quite intrigued by his power actually.

Shane: Wow, you're starting to feel like a chick magnet, dude.

Rex: Why does everyone feel like I'm the one who gets all the ladies?

Ozpin: Anyway... I think it's time to reveal Salem's past and mine.

Everyone turn to look at Ozpin.

Ozpin: Miss Rose, if you could.

Ruby: (nods her head and ponders her question) Jinn.

Ruby turns around to face Jinn, who has a curious look on her face.

Ruby: What did Ozpin and Salem's past life look like?

Suddenly, Ruby finds herself alone in a blank white space.

Ruby: Wha-- what? Weiss? Yang?

Rex: What the hell?! Where am I? Rosebud? Sis?

Rex goes off screen, Yang comes from her position.

Yang: Blake? Ru--

Yang goes off screen, and Weiss then appears, also calling out for their team leader.

Weiss: --by? Ruby?

Rin: Rex? Luke?

Blake: Yang? Shane? Crim?

Shane: Hello?! Anybody here?!

Suddenly, an environment manifests, showing a path leading to a castle in the distance. A woman humming can be heard in the background.

Jinn: (narrating) Once upon a time,

Jinn: there stood a lonely tower...

Smoke envelops Shane, and Qrow appears where he was. He looks behind him.

Jinn: ...that sheltered a lonely girl.

A rather beautiful woman sitting in front of a mirror then appears. Rex and Ruby are seen walking up to her.

Jinn: Named... Salem.

END OF PART 67