Her dark eyes look at the facade of Camelot Music as they pass through the wide entrance. She does look towards Piotr as they pass him, almost as if silently asking him to help her out here. But she looks towards Janice then as she slows to a halt, and then lets go of her hand. Immediately she draws her hand back, her eyes still looking along the racks and racks and racks of music in various forms. Wow… they must have every music in the world here. Like… every single song ever made must be in this place!
Laura continues to follow Janice, her gaze still moving along the various wares offered in this place. It's kind of loud in here, to Laura at least. But she likes the music that's playing, a woman singing a so pop song. She doesn't know who the woman is, maybe she'll ask Janice. When Janice isn't focusing so hard on the music choices. She now stands right next to Janice, following the path of Janice's hand as she browses. But it doesn't take long for Laura to figure out that all the music is in alphabetical order. Ah… organized things… how comforting. Now she finds herself smiling a little more as she casually walks past Janice, her fingertips tracing along the cassette cases as she does so. She looks at all of the cassette names, and nothing really jumps out at her. Not at first. But soon some do start to stand out to her. There's to many for her to go over all at once… but there are a few she makes note of.
Viva Hate. Tender Prey. Follow the Leader. By All Means Necessary. …And Justice For All. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Land of Rape and Honey. Critical Beatdown. Strictly Business. The New Order.
Starting to see a pattern in her head?
Laura stops abruptly and turns, snagging one of the cassettes from its place on the wall. …And Justice For All by Metallica. The cover of the cassette looks like Lady Justice, but bound. Her brows furrow as she studies the stark picture, pacing back in the direction of Janice. She passes Piotr, and without saying anything she holds the cassette up for him to see. As if telling him 'hey I found something!' a small smile on her lips. But her attention diverts to Janice as she hears her speaking to someone. Her path changes, and she now moves towards that front counter, her steps at a slightly faster pace. And as the clerk is leading Janice towards the music racks, Laura just stares up at her silently. Staring. Staring at her.
And she almost jumps when the clerk then addresses her, as she wasn't expecting that at all. For about 5 seconds Laura seems to not know what to say. But after that 5-ish seconds expires, Laura holds up the cassette she had found. She of course has yet to realize her CD player won't play the cassette, but that will be an unpleasant surprise for her when she gets home. She looks to Janice, and holds the cassette towards her also, wanting her to see it.
Laura has no clue who Metallica is, or just how utterly amazing that particular album is. All she knows is that the title of the album clicked with her, appealed to her on a level she isn't even aware of. As did all of the cassettes she noticed had. Justice for all… sounds nice.
She looks as if she is about to say something to Janice and the clerk… but her eyes widen as her body goes stiff. She looks towards her feet, and then around the store slowly. She steps away from Janice and the clerk (and Piotr since he is in the vicinity), looking up towards the ceiling. As if in a trance she meanders towards the front of the store slowly. The cassette slips out of her hand and clanks to the carpeted floor, as if she had forgotten she was even holding it.
Thoom
Laura's head flicks upwards, and she hears it again. It's barely there… maybe Jo would have noticed it also. Thuds. Like tiny and subtle aftershocks of an earthquake you didn't even know was there.
Thoom
She now jumps a little, her eyes snapping towards the front entrance of the mall itself. The front entrance they had just came through. Her brows furrow as she takes another few steps forward, stepping out of the store.
Thoom
Her knees bend as the sound gets louder, more apparent. The others perhaps would hear (or feel) it that time. Tiny tremors. Not enough to knock anyone or anything over, but enough for you to know something is up.
Thoom
Laura's head tilts up and she breathes in deeply the air, and the soured expression on her face shows that she distinctly does not like what it is she smells. Subtle traces of gasoline, of something burning outside in the distance.
Thoom
The sound of those thuds now is accompanied to Laura's ears with the sound of people yelling outside. That's something the others might not notice… but now the mall has grown considerably more quiet. It seems most everyone now realizes something is wrong.
Thoom
Her hands clench into fists, and she starts to walk towards the entrance of the mall, her head bowing down. But she doesn't get 3 steps in before the front entrance of the mall suddenly just explodes forward. Laura
ducks down a little once more… and the source of those disturbances is seen just walking through the doors. Like…
through the doors. Not opening them and stepping through. Just walking through the actual doors. An immense being, topping out at just over 9 feet. Most of his form covered in a dark brown armor, his body seeming to be made up of nothing but muscles. He stops inside of the mall entrance, rubble falling all around him. Some of the stones and metal actually hit him, but just bounce off without him seeming to notice. His eyes move along the interior of the mall from under that distinct helmet. He was once just an angry and jealous man… until fate lead him into contact with a small gem. And since the moment he touched that gem, he has been known as Juggernaut.
A couple of mall security men run past Laura towards Juggernaut, their guns drawn and aimed up at him. With an annoyed expression, he looks towards the guards. His large hand the casually comes up, and a single finger presses down on the information kiosk directly in front of him. The metal and plastic frame of the kiosk simply collapses with a wrenching sound. His voice comes forth from under his helmet.
"You dicks don't get paid 'nough ta mess with me." The security guards seem to agree, and they quickly move back deeper into the mall, heading to their offices to see who they can call. And Juggernaut just grins as he starts to move forward once more, each footfall accompanied by a low and resonating 'thoom' sound. But he stops after just a few steps, looking into the window of a pet shop. He finds himself smiling under his helmet… maybe after he's done wrecking things he'll come back and get a kitten. All of the offered pets in the window of the pet store seem to be cringing, clearly frightened by all of the noise and commotion.
"Aw.." Juggernaut says softly to himself. Yeah, he's going to have to come back and get a kitten.
And that's enough for Laura.
With a low snarl her fists draw down to her sides.
SLAKT
SLAKT
With a soft, muffled sound of metal scraping on bone, 2 blades extend from the back of her hands between her knuckles. Her own blood trickles down the blades as she glares at Juggernaut, her breathing coming a little heavier now. The bleeding from where the blades sliced through her skin stops very quickly, her skin healing around the protruding blades. She doesn't realize it, or even thinks about it, but this is the first time any of her new group would have seen her claws. Well save for Jo, of course. Not showing any hesitation, she strides towards Juggernaut…