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"Up next is the Black Trailer!" Roku announced while starting up the video.
Another quote appeared on the black screen.
Your hopes have become my burden. I will find my own liberation.
Everyone was confused at that opening line.
"What could that mean?" Tonks wondered out loud.
"Most likely that whomever this trailer introduces is someone who was fighting for some kind of cause but can no longer support it," Dumbledore replied.
The video begins with the perspective shifting down from the broken moon into Forever Fall. There a young girl with black hair and a matching bow is sitting on a rock facing away.
A man enters from the left. "Blake, it's time," he said.
"Wait, we're getting two characters introduced here." Harry noticed. "The others didn't do that."
"Yeah! Which one are we supposed to be following?" Ron asked.
"I think it's Blake," Hermione answered.
"Is it because that bloke said her name?" Ron asked.
"Or is it because the other two trailers introduced girls in them?" Ginny pointed out.
"It's because of the name. Blake is an Old English variant of 'black'. And this is called the 'Black Trailer'." Hermione answered.
"Hang on, Ruby is a shade of red." Ginny noted.
"And Weiss means 'white' in German," Kingsley recalled.
"These are not coincidences, I take Roku?" Dumbledore asked.
"Wow, you guys caught on to that quicker than I thought!" Roku said, impressed. "It's a tradition of this world for people to be named after a color."
"That's a pretty cool tradition. Like how the people of the Black family are named after constellations," Sirius explained.
"Mine isn't." Tonks cheered.
Sirius grinned. "Yeah your's is-"
"Don't say it." Tonks warned.
"Your middle name is a star name." Remus pointed out.
Tonks smiled, hair going pink again.
Not every member of the Black family got a constellation name. You'd run out of them after a while. Narcissa, as the youngest child, got named for her mother's side of the family. The Rosiers often named their daughters after nature- Druella Black née Rosier was herself named after a dew planet. Nymphadora meant 'gift from nymphs'.
The Evans family named their daughters after flowers. The Weasleys tended to pick Arthurian names, it was very muggle of them. Malfoys picked names that came from only the most magical sounding things. The Lupins...well let's just say Remus wasn't the first 'Remus' of his line. The Lovegoods picked names that they...well...loved.
The Dumbledores started a tradition of alliteration when Albus was born...they were originally gonna try to make every generation a different letter...it didn't go well.
There were a lot of different family traditions going around here.
But nobody really thought about this, except for the Headmaster himself. He looked out around the room, mentally thinking about all the many family naming traditions he had seen over the years.
Ron was still stuck on the Black family naming all their kids after stars or constellations. "Must make naming your kids ten times as hard though with that kind of restriction."
"That's all well and good." Hermione leaned forward, nudging Ron's arm. "But let's get back to the trailer!"
(For those curious, the Grangers had no such naming traditions...yet.)
Roku started the video back up.
Blake turned around and said "Okay."
The two then proceed to rush through the forest until they reach a cliff. Down below a horn is heard as a train goes around a corner. Adam and Blake slide down the hill until they push off and land on the train, stabbing their swords into the roof to slow to a stop.
Moody's eyes narrowed at this. "They're hijacking that train."
"Maybe they're saving the train?" Ginny suggested. Were they really about to watch a character they were supposed to like commit a crime? The idea sat poorly in Ginny's stomach.
"Or this could be the last straw for her." Kingsley offered. Looking back, he could understand the opening quote.
The two run to the next car and Adam uses his sword to slice the lock on the hatch, allowing them to drop in. They enter a car full of robots.
"Looks like we're going to be doing this the hard way," Adam said.
Harry then noticed something. Something small, twitching on Blake and Adams' heads. "Have they got something on their heads?"
Everyone squinted.
"Oh he's right!" Sirius praised. He ruffled Harry's head. "He's got some horns on his head!"
"Wait, I thought Blake was wearing a bow at first," Fred said.
"Are those actually cat ears?" George asked.
"No no, that's a bow," Roku answered rather quickly. Secretly, they were very pleased the wizards noticed...just so that Roku could answer in such a way that the reveal would be even better.
The twins just looked at each other and shrugged.
The robots all activate and surround the two.
"Don't be so dramatic," Blake chuckled as she prepared her weapon.
One of the androids activates the guns on its arms. "Intruder, identify yourself," it ordered.
"What the bloody hell are those things?" Ginny asked.
"Ginerva! Watch your language." Molly scolded.
"They're called robots." Hermione answered. "They're machines, powered by electricity. Many versions of muggle media make them appear more like humans."
Adam just stood there before firing off his weapon -the subtitle reading Wilt and Blush- before quickly rushing behind to shoot its head off before cutting the android in two and sheathed his sword again.
Another robot comes from behind Blake who jumps backwards, leaving a shadow of herself as she does so. The robot swipes at the shadow while the real Blake slashes at the robot with her weapon which Roku labeled Gamble Shroud.
Ron blinked for a moment before he rubbed his eyes. "Okay either my eyes are going or there were two of them before."
"No, I saw it too." Harry told his friend. "Maybe it's her semblance thingy."
From shadows we'll descend on the world
Take back what you stole
Blake and Adam continued to fight the machines while making sure to cover the other's back.
From shadows we'll reclaim our destiny
Set our future free and we'll rise
And we'll rise
The lyrics made everyone uneasy. To them, they sounded like something the Death Eaters would say.
Blake then moves forward to take out several robots as Adam follows behind her. He kicks a robot through a door that the duo then go through. More of the robots made their way over the crates towards them.
"Let's do this," Adam said as they continued to charge.
Above the darkness and the shame
Above the torture and the pain
Above the ridicule and hate
Above the blinding of our fate
"It sounds like those two have it rough." Remus said as he continued to listen to the song.
"Why though?" Tonks asked.
"Maybe the humans don't accept them." Remus replied. "If they see what we did, the horns and think that the bow is a pair of ears, maybe they think they're not human. Monsters."
"What they're doing isn't going to help that." Arthur added. "Attacking a train will only make things worse for them."
"When you're desperate, you'll do whatever you have to." Sirius countered. He had been that desperate before. In that year after he left Hogwarts, Sirius had done a lot of thieving and hiding to stay alive. He broke into Hogwarts after Wormtail with that kind of desperation. Worse yet, he'd done much worse during the War to keep him and his friends alive.
"But they shouldn't have too," Kingsley argued. "I'm sure if everyone just talked it out they could find some agreement."
"If only it were ever that simple, Kingsley." Dumbledore said gravely.
Blake and Adam continued to fight their way through the robots working in amazing sync especially when Blake used her weapon as a kusarigama. They enter the next cart filled with many crates as the music starts to wind down.
"This must be what they're looking for," Moody reasoned.
"Perfect," Adam states as he looks into one of the crates. "Move up to the next car."
Unbeknownst to them a mysterious machine was moving on the ceiling.
"Oi, you two, look out!" Ginny warned.
"Fight's not over yet," Ron agreed.
Adam then closes the crate stating "I'll set the charges."
"What about the crew members?" Blake asked.
"What about them?" Adam scoffed.
That made the whole room tense up.
"So this is the last straw," Kingsley said.
"I would want to bail too if my partner has no problems hurting innocent people." Tonks agreed. She glanced at Remus before quickly turning back to the television.
Their attention is drawn to a noise and the music picks back up as a spider droid descends from the ceiling and aims its guns at them.
Born with, no life, into subjugation
"Adam," Blake says anxiously as the two start to fight the new threat
Treated, like a, worthless animal
Everyone flinched at that.
"Yeouch!" Sirius exclaimed. "Sounds like these guys have it worse than us."
When Blake runs in to attack, she gets headbutted by the droid falling down only for Adam to draw it's attention as she recovers. Adam then gets kicked away as the droid prepares to stomp on Blake.
Striped of all rights
Just a lesser being
Crushed by cruel
Ruthless human rule
"Look out!" Hermione cried.
Adam quickly rushes back getting Blake out of harm's way in the nick of time.
"That's one tough robot." Harry remarked, shaking his head.
"Hopefully one of them has something up their sleeve." Ron said.
When it started
All we wanted was a chance to live our lives
Now in darkness
"We need to get out of here," Blake says as the droid charges a large attack that then hits them, sending them into an open train cart.
"Strategic retreat sounds good too," Moody stated.
"Yeah, but it looks like things are not going to let them," Remus pointed out.
Taking anything we want and we will rise
We'll rise
We'll rise
The two get up.
"Buy me some time," Adam says.
"Are you sure?" Blake worries.
"Do it!" Adam demands, as he grips his sword, clearly preparing something.
"What do you think he's planning on doing?" Moody asked Dumbledore.
The headmaster hummed in thought. "He might do something similar to Weiss and strike in a certain small spot."
Hermione spoke up. "He might be preparing his- oh what was that word- semblance, was it?"
"Yep," Roku clarified.
"He'll prepare his semblance." Hermione stated.
"Well let's hope it's a powerful one then," Harry said.
Blake runs up to the spider droid and starts attacking it, switching between the use of her weapon as a katana, cleaver, pistol and Kusarigama in order to draw it's attention.
Ron's eyes widened. "Wicked!" He cried out. "Do you see all those things her weapon can do? It's like she's a ninja."
"You know what ninjas are?" Harry asked.
"Of course I do. Some of the comics I read as a child had ninja wizards," Ron explained.
"Oh yeah, I remember those," Fred recalled fondly. He remembered those comics used to belong to him and George.
Harry remembered throwing out those comics because the Dursleys told him to do it. He'd wanted to read them, he definitely would've read more than Dudley did. It didn't matter. They threw it all away.
After some time, Blake jumps back as the droid prepares to fire another beam attack.
"Move!" Adam yells as the beam is fired and he catches it with his sword.
Sirius slumped back on the couch. "Di-Did he just catch a laser beam with a sword?" He asked, smiling wide cause honestly? That looked awesome.
"He did," Remus replied, though he could hardly believe it himself.
"So I guess Harry and Hermione were right," Ron said. "That semblance of his is going to be insane!"
As his body starts to glow, the droid jumps towards him. Adam then slashes out with his sword, disintegrating the droid and even affecting the trees in the Red Forest causing their leaves to fly in the air.
Everyone was stunned at that power.
"And let me see if I get this right. Since Blake is one of the protagonists, and she's clearly leaving Adam, that makes Adam one of the villains." Moody deduced.
Everyone looked at each other in worry. How can those three girls and whoever the fourth one is comeback something like that?
As Adam sheaths his sword he runs to the back of the cart to find Blake standing on the next one. As he reaches out to her...
"She leaves him at this point doesn't she?" Tonks asks.
"Hell of a way to get dumped," Ginny commented.
"Goodbye," Blake says, serving the connection and letting the released carts slow down as she lets the rest of the train continue en-route.
As she leaves, the background becomes completely red with a black silhouette of Blake in the middle, with black leaves falling down.
"Something tells me we haven't seen the last of him," Moody stated.
Hermione groaned in agreement. "Blokes like him don't take rejection well."
"What do you think she's going to do now?" Harry wondered.
"I'm sure there will be some opportunity for her to turn her life around," Sirius said.
"Her leaving Adam was the first big step," Dumbledore stated. "I'm sure we will see what she does to strive for a better future."
"But first I need to introduce you guys to the last main character," Roku said. "This chick is a literal knockout."
"You mean she's a real looker?" Fred asked.
"Or is she a real strong fighter?" George finished.
"Yes." Roku answered. And with that she queued up the final trailer.
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