Poropo followed quickly behind what seemed to be Ghost at the end of the train - Ghost seemed to be trying to fix the lights of the train which made sense - whoever this person was who attacked Kazimir must had surprised the guild master of Fairy Tail from the shadows! There was a reason everything was happening on the train and the lights means the attacker keeping everyone within the train wanted the lights off - Poropo knew Ghost was doing a good job by trying to fix the lights, if Ghost was the one walking in front of Poropo. The lights were off after all so the monk could not see his own hands in front of his face. The monk attempted to look for curtains to open and shed some light in the area, but there was a slap against the monk's hand, "ouch! What was that!?"
Poropo panicked at the idea of someone being close enough to him to swat his hand away if he tried to open a curtain - whatever this violent individual wanted involved the shadows above all else, even if slapping the monk's hand away was the way to keep light from leaking into the train! "Perhaps this is some magic which is caused by triggering an action such as turning on a light or opening a curtain...I need to try again...ouch!?" Poropo seemed to start understanding this magic being used within the train was likely a form of Darkness or Shadow Magic!
The monk had no idea how to combat Darkness Magic without the help of his own Light Magic, which he still did not have access to - the Iron Deity was not being kind to the monk, showing no mercy to the challenge presented to him for the past few weeks. For too long of a time now, the monk had to deal with challenges without magic, this train dilemma being one of those many challenges apparently - the monk was not getting out of this situation with the help of magic, so the monk had to try and brute force light into this train while Ghost attempted to fix the train's lacrima lights!
"I will open a curtain if it is the last thing I do! Haaaaa!" The monk swung his Elder Sage's Staff at the curtain, hoping to let light leak into his area just enough to make his way to the next train car! With a swoosh and another slap from the shadows, the monk clashed with the surrounding darkness! He kept his swing firm and succeeded in cracking open a curtain, burning the magical darkness within his train car! "Hah! Have at thee!" shouted the monk as he waddled through the rest of the train car, swatting away curtains using his Elder Sage's Staff to avoid being directly damaged by the darkness!
"I am on my way Ghost! I will help you soon! Stay strong!" yelled the monk down the long series of train cars, hoping to reach the ears of the brave Ghost who was attempting to turn on the lacrima lights of the train. Once those lights were on, this whole situation would likely be solved and Kazimir and Judith would be able to take care of the person responsible for this dilemma! Poropo continued to waddled from train car to train car, swatting at curtains left and right.
The monk eventually caught up to Ghost was seemed to be in a scuffle against an unknown force! "Ghost! I will save you with the power of light! HAAAAA!" shouted the monk, swinging his Elder Sage's Staff at the shadowed figure! The monk missed and nearly hit Ghost, but the figure had to disappear in order to avoid being damaged by the monk's paltry attempt to deal any amount of damage - however, this person or creature did not like being hurt in any way. Perhaps their endurance was too low to handle even Poropo's wimpy swings, thought the monk. Poropo saw Ghost rush for the door of the lacrima control room in an attempt to open the locked door, "I see what you are trying to do, brave Ghost - I will help!" The monk dropped his Elder Sage's Staff and charged the door Ghost was trying to open with all of his weight! The monk was not very strong himself, but he could lift and throw his weight around if he really had to - a life and death situation on a runaway train seemed like the best time to throw some heft around for the sake of saving some lives!
"Heave!" Poropo and Ghost slammed into the door o the lacrima control room, bursting inside without need of a second attempt! Poropo fell to the ground, barely able to move from the force exerted upon his fragile bones - being a summoner meant being physically weaker than the average person, so this door-rush took a toll on the poor monk's body. With a huff and puff, Poropo used the last of his strength to try and motivate Ghost to keep doing a good job, "huff...good job...puff...Ghost, you are the only one left...except maybe Kazimir and Judith...but they are elsewhere and you are here - turn on these lacrima lights and stop...this train...from being dark..."
Poropo's eyes were starting to fade - swinging his Elder Sage's Staff at defended curtain, attempting to run after Ghost to back him up, and rushing down a metallic, locked door was a large order to process for the monk in a short amount of time. Nothing could be done for the poor monk who lay on the ground, consciousness fading from him as darkness began enveloping the lacrima control room, "hurry Ghost...the darkness is coming to swallow us whole - save us by turning on the lights..." The monk tried to speak a little more before passing out from exhaustion - the monk did not know, but Judith would likely come in time to save him from stay unconscious for too long. For now, the monk trusted Ghost to do the rest of the work which Ghost also started - the monk was starting to think the effort he just put in was relatively worthless when Ghost was well able to take care of himself most of the time. Being a new mage yet so capable put a smile on the unconscious monk's face.
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