Hello, mates! Black Fuego here with an early Christmas present for you in the form of the fourth chapter of Petting Zoo! I've been debating on whether or not to upload this, but I couldn't wait until Christmas…I'm weak. I am also planning on uploading something else pretty soon, something that I thought was going to take longer, honestly, but hey, it works! Seriously, it only took me a few days to get it all done and edited to the best of my abilities. You'll find out what the upload is very soon. Until then, though, how about you guys enjoy this next chapter and have a great day!

Disclaimer, I don't own the RWBY series nor the idea for this story. I have, however, been challenged into a couple of Pokemon battles against my work buddies and I can't wait for it. My Mega Sceptile and Shiny Metagross are going to take them out. Fear my super lizard and silver supercomputer monster, you two! Also, my Torkoal is gonna wall them. He saved me against Steven and his team, he'll save me against them.

Petting Zoo Chapter 4: The Forbidden Pet

It was a nice, bright and cheerful day in the city of Vale, especially Beacon Academy. The birds were chirping, the Grimm were either quiet or dead deep in the Emerald Forest, and students were off chatting about nothing in particular. Among these students were Ruby, Blake and Weiss, and their discussion was one that was something that was actually quite common among those their year.

"I just don't get the point of Keyblades. I mean, how do they work? A blade that can open doors or a key that shifts into a blade?" Weiss asked her teammates.

"What's to get? It's a key that can stab things. Not that hard to understand if you ask me…" Ruby stated.

"Yeah, but it still doesn't make all that much sense to me…" Weiss muttered. "I mean, is it supposed to be a sword the size of a key? A large key the size of a sword? Seriously, I'm stumped."

"I think it's a sword that functions as a key in very specific situations. There are a lot of weapons that do that, actually." Blake spoke up.

"Or it's a key all the time, and when you stick it into Grimm, it unlocks their death," Ruby chirped.

The statement caused the other girls to pause and turned to the smiling girl in surprise. They had not been expecting such a simple, yet brilliant response from her, but it made the most sense out of everything they heard so far.

"For the love of Remnant, Ruby, I would love to live in your world for ten minutes…" Weiss admitted with no shame at all.

"Yeah…I have a really good time!" The young leader grinned.

"Yeah, no kidding," Blake chimed in. "I wouldn't mind living in your world as well. We might not get anything done, but I doubt we'll care too much."

"We'll probably have thoughts of weapons, cookies and strawberries going through our heads all the time," Weiss joked with her arms crossed.

"Yang!"

"And thoughts of Yang as well."

"No, not that! I mean I see Yang," Ruby cried out, before pointing to her sister, who was leisurely walking about without a care in the world in front of the other girls. Seeing the lax looking girl actually got the heiress to realize something, and decided to voice it out.

"Hey, why don't you try petting her?" She asked her leader, remembering that all of them were given gentle, or annoying in her case, pats on the head lately.

"I guess she is the only one that hasn't been pet yet," Ruby muttered in a thinking pose, before adopting a big grin. "Let's do it!"

"Uh…are you sure this is such a good idea, Ruby? You know how she gets when someone gets too close to her hair," Blake spoke up, well aware of how protective the blonde is towards her hair, and had seen what happens when someone messes with it back at initiation.

The poor Ursa never had a chance.

"Oh come on, I'm her sister. No way she'll hurt me!" The young leader assured with a wide smile as they walked towards their unsuspecting blonde.

"Relax, Blake, it'll be fine." Weiss said with her arms crossed as Ruby approached her sister from behind and quickly rose her hand. "I mean, really, what could happen?"

*pat*

As soon as the hand was placed, a sense of doom, foreboding and maybe even killing intent was unleashed onto the school. The students stiffened in fright, the teachers reached for the weapons on instinct, and the Grimm of Emerald Forest actually began to move deeper into the forest to escape the sense of death they were feeling. Blake and Weiss were stunned speechless by what the young blonde was releasing and Ruby simply blinked a couple times in confusion. After a few more seconds, the young leader removed her hand stepped away from her sister, who was now turning to her and the others with glowing scarlet eyes.

"Ruby…I know we're sisters and all, but NEVER. TOUCH. THE HAIR. GOT IT?"

"Got it!" Ruby squeaked, while Blake and Weiss paled at the demonic voice coming from their friend.

With a firm, satisfied nod, the brawler turned away and walked off, her eyes back to normal but an air of irritation still around her. The girls were practically stuck to their spots, too afraid to move due to their teammate's actions. After a short while, and making sure they didn't see the blonde anywhere, they let off a sigh of relief.

"I thought we were dead…" Weiss mumbled while taking deep breaths.

"To think that she would actually threaten Ruby like that… I was not expecting her to do that…" Blake shuddered.

"Yeah…Sis is so protective of her hair that she won't let anyone near it. Dad and I even had to ask permission before we could even think of touching it…" Ruby explained, causing the other girls to look at her with dead expressions.

"Why in the world did you not mention this sooner!?" Weiss screamed with her arms flailing, before pausing for a brief moment and palmed her face. "Oh God don't tell me it was because-"

"You didn't ask," The reaper shrugged, causing the heiress to let off another scream of frustration and Blake to groan in annoyance.

"Ugh…I don't get enough tuna for this…"

Author's note:

And here it is, my readers! I hope you guys like the chapter and support the guy who wrote the original comics for it. Remember, this story idea is not mine, but Frasian's. Go check out his RWBY work. It's awesome. Also, I will like to say one thing. I have something ready for you guys that I was planning to upload on Christmas thanks to you guys, but I, being the occasionally impatient person that I am, decided to upload it much sooner, sometime within the next twenty four hours to be exact. I wasn't expecting to finish this little surprise as early as I did, but it is done and I can't hide it anymore. Just give me some time to do some finishing touches to it and I'll have it up really soon. And also, I changed my mind regarding what I posted in Hymn of Reminiscence. I will do a Christmas special this year. It's going to go up alongside the third chapter of Hymn of Reminiscence, and it will be a two part special with both Christmas and a New Year's special. As always, thank you all so much for reading and I'll see you in a few hours!