Still Standin'

Birds of a feather

Time:0500
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Location: Team CFVY's dorm

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[3rd person POV]

Mason shoots up in a sitting straight position, looking around frantically and breathing heavily, his mind still locked onto those moments of what felt like a dream. Seeing he was no longer in that cursed forest, he calmed down, and took a deep breath. He got up and as quiet as he could, walked to the door to the dorm and left, not even bothering to leave a note. Mason mostly just mindlessly wandered around the academy, before coming to stop at the courtyard out front of the academy. He looked around before just walking out and finding a nice and calm area, and just sat down on a bench, trying to clear his mind of what he could only describe as a personal hell. His thoughts going a million miles a second, one thought leading into another, but one dominating them all. "Who were those people, and why did they seem so familiar?" He sighed as he waved away the though, he decided to look around, getting a nice view of his surroundings, the sun was starting to rise, which he was grateful for, this place seemed serene, almost peaceful. But this peace would not last as he heard voices in the distance, coming from the academy, slowly getting louder. He looked over towards where the voices came from, seeing the team he was currently staying with, team CFVY. He stood up and headed over towards them as they noticed him and beckoned him over to which he was immediately swamped by concerned voices "we looked everywhere for you, why'd you leave so early?" Coco's voice cut through everyone else's, sounding like a concerned parent, which was met by a shrug from mason as the others were making sure he was okay "guys, im fine, just... needed some fresh air, is all" he put his hands up in a sort of 'calm down' motion and reassured them before coco let out a sigh of relief, she may have a cold exterior but it's obvious that she does care about people, especially those under her responsibility. She perked up slightly as she remembered something "oh, team RWBY wanted me to give you this, they apparently found it and thought you'd like to have it" she reached behind herself and pulled out his helmet, to which he grabbed and looked it over, acting like he didn't recognize it "I'll have to give them my thanks then" he decided to put it on, smiling at the feeling of having his helmet back, before asking them a question of his own "what are YOU doing up so early actually" he asked as he looked at all of them with a raised eyebrow, to which he got a response almost immediately from coco "seeing as it's the weekend, and you dont seem to have any clothes other than that suit you brought with you from atlas, we were gonna take you to get some clothes" she crossed her arms and gave him a look signifying that he was being voluntold to get new clothes, which earned a sigh from him. "Alright" he motioned for them to lead the way, to which coco took the lead, as the rest followed behind

[In Vale]

As the bullhead landed, to which mason compared it to a V-22* or somethin from a game, he followed coco and the rest to a clothing store, which he didn't really check the name of, he didn't really have much time to look around before coco practically zoomed off with almost mechanical precision, as if she knew the route she was taking exactly. He looked at the other with a raised eyebrow "just. Give it a second" yatsuhashi told mason, who responded with a nod, before coco grabbed him by the arm and literally dragged him to the changing rooms, and tossed him in with the clothes "ow..." mason let out a pathetic groan as he got up, and shut the door and locked it "ya coulda just asked me to come with you ya know" he called out to her as he started what could only be described as a slice of life clothing montage, coming out in several different sets of clothing to which the team judged as either good or bad, most of them were good surprisingly. Eventually he came out with the last set of clothing, feeling like he just rucked about 15 miles, an exaggeration but he was getting tired of this, in a pair of camo pants, work boots, a long sleeved flannel shirt, that he rolled the sleeves of, and something reminiscent of a Shemagh* to which they gave a nod of approval to "honestly, i like this" mason stated as he looked at them "it's comfy, and i can move pretty well in it" the others nodded at his statement before coco decided to talk "well grab the clothes that you're gonna be wearing" it didn't look like there was a choice here as he grabbed them and only then did he realize that coco was serious about buying him the clothes