Disclaimer: I do not own Code: Lyoko. My ninja gerbil commandoes are still fighting, however. They have lasted the longest out of all of my armies. You just can't beat ninjas, yeah.

A/N: Alright! We've reached chapter 29. Sorry about the name, I couldn't think of anything original. I have over 1400 hits! But I only have ten reviews. C'mon people, I live off of reviews. I'm sorry that the last chapters were so short, but I've been trying to fight off a bad case of writer's block. This is going to be another one of those great action chapters. I might even decide to introduce another OC shortly. I needed another one to make my story work, and KatNGoomi gave me a suggestion. I liked it, so I'm going to be inserting her shortly. Everybody who has been reading this story already know her name and a little bit of her background. I hope that I portray her like she is supposed to be when she actually comes in to the story. Now that I've finished blathering, I will now give you the latest installment in Damonic Rapture. Please R&R, I have a water gun pointed at the crotch of everybody that has read this. The water gun will only go away after you leave a review.


Lyoko
"Alright, we're here daddy," Aelita stated, "Where do we go to reach Niffleheim."

"Damon, or maybe we should call him Ymir until we can heal his mind, converted a tower into the gateway into his realm," Franz offered, "The tower is fourteen degrees south of your current position."

"Thank you," William stated, "I just wish that you had decided to come with us Xavier."

"Sorry about that," Xavier proclaimed, "I'm going to be working on the program to fix the crack in Damon's core nonstop until it is complete. Even with my Lyoko power, I'm making little headway. As near as I can figure, I'm only ten percent complete."

"For only starting yesterday, that's pretty damn impressive," Jeremie whistled.

"I've only completed the easiest part. I'm sorry that I have to use one of the scanners for the jewel," Xavier stated, "But I need to be able to examine it very closely to make the program."

"How soon do you think that you will be able to finish it," Erethyr asks quietly.

"It should be done by the end of the week if everything goes according to plan," Xavier declared uncertainly.

"We understand," Aelita stated, "You're doing the best that you can."

"I do think that you guys might actually be able to help me out," Xavier exclaimed.

"How so," Yumi inquired.

"At least she didn't say 'what do you mean'," Ulrich whispered to Erethyr. This caused her to giggle slightly.

"I'm going to need you guys to explore Niffleheim later," Xavier stated, getting some groans from the group, "Before you guys start complaining, I'm going to have Franz compiling the data that we will be getting from Sector Five so that I can rifle through it when I get back. I will be with you shortly."

The group headed over to Sector Five and Xavier was waiting for them. "Why didd you need to come here," Jeremie asked.

"My power will not give me access to all knowledge instantaneously," Xavier explained, "I can only use my power to use what knowledge I already possess and compile it into a form that I can use to go through it at the speed that surpasses the super calculator. By doing this I can create theories at lightning speed with a ninety-nine percent chance of being correct. I currently don't have all the information necessary to create the program to fix the core of Damon's being. That information is stored here on Sector Five. If I can get every piece of necessary data here on Sector Five, I will be able to finish that program by lunch tomorrow."

"Then let's get to it. But after we help you, we will explore Niffleheim, agreed," William stated.

"Agreed," Xavier said simply.

The group made their way to the central database of Sector Five in the Celestial Dome. They covered Xavier while he used his power to go through all the data at a lightning speed and send all relevant information to Franz. SAI didn't launch an attack on them during this time. It only took ten minutes for Xavier to extract every useful file. After he was done they went all the way back to the tower to get to Niffleheim.

"You sure that you got everything that you needed," Ulrich asked impatiently.

"For the umpteenth time, yes I'm absolutely positive that I got everything that I need," Xavier said, sounding exasperated, "I went through every single file in Sector Five and extracted all useful information."

"Just making sure," Odd said, "We don't want to have to go all the way back there just because you forgot to kiss the screen good-bye and tuck it in for the night."

"Now that you mention it…" Xavier joked, looking thoughtful. He instantly had seven pairs of eyes glaring at him. "What, can't I make jokes worthy of Odd?"

"That was just horrible," Jeremie declared.

"I'll give you the twenty when we get back," Odd whispered to Ulrich. Ulrich just nodded his confirmation.

"Let's just get in there already," Xavier sighed before muttering, "God, you sound like Sissi sometimes." Everybody heard that and chased Xavier all the way into Niffleheim. They paused and took a look at the landscape around them. Franz had a visual patched through Aelita's eyes.

"You getting all of this daddy," Aelita whispered awestruck.

"I sure am princess," Franz declared, likewise awestruck at what he was saying, "Ymir does excellent work."

"Don't call him that," Erethyr hissed vehemently, "He's still Damon!"

"And I thought that I did good work with where I placed my orb," Xavier stated, "But he took it to a whole new level. The only thing that could make this more visceral is if he added weather patterns."

"I don't think that he wanted to take away from the beauty of first entering his realm," Yumi proclaimed.

"If so, then he succeeded," Ulrich declared.

"Have you gotten the holomap to pick up this sector yet, Franz," Jeremie inquired.

"Yes and what confuses me is that there are a lot of monsters milling about," Franz exclaimed, "It's almost as though Damon created hundreds of monsters before any of you showed up."

"Damn," Jeremie said in awe, "He works fast."

"Looks like we'll be crashing his little tea party," Odd proclaimed. Four frost giants came crashing through the woods, barreling right towards them. "Or he'll crash ours, whichever."

The lead frost giant swung its axe at Ulrich. He side stepped it and tried to slice through the monster with his swords. They just clanged off of the monster's hide.

"What are these things made out of," Ulrich shouted, his teeth chattering.

"I think that we are going to have to find the weak spot," Xavier said, readying his bow, "Try looking for some sort of unusual marking, something that just yells 'Hit Me!'"

The second frost giant swung its axe at Yumi and Aelita. Aelita managed to get out of the way but Yumi wasn't so lucky. The axe went clean through her, and she was instantly devirtualized.

"Yumi," Ulrich shouted, "Alright, you're going to pay for that!" Ulrich started to run around the second one, using his super sprint to become a harder target to hit. The frost giant just sighed and stuck his foot out, tripping Ulrich.

"You are going to have to do better than that if you want to beat us," the second frost giant rumbled, getting laughter from the others. Ulrich had hit a tree after he had been tripped. When he hit it, the tree shook and dropped snow on top of him. This caused an uproar of laughter from the frost giants.

Xavier used this opportunity to activate his power, looking for a weak spot in the frost giants. He couldn't find any, so he sighed and let loose an arrow. It buried deep into the giant's head, causing it to fall over and disappear in a puff of smoke. He reactivated his power and came up with a conclusion. "Weapons like Ulrich's sword won't work on these fuckers! We have to use energy weapons to take them out!" Xavier was beaming, he was so proud of himself for figuring it out.

Aelita and Jeremie nodded to one another and fired their energy balls at each of the frost giants. Only one of them managed to escape being polarized into oblivion. This last frost giant bellowed with rage and made a bull rush on his foes. Odd stuck out his foot and tripped the monster, sending it flying into a different tree. While Odd was rolling on the ground, laughing his ass off, the tree that the frost giant hit broke and fell on top of him, devirtualizing him instantly. Fortunately, the frost giant was also crushed by the tree. The remaining members of the group couldn't help but laugh at the series of events that resulted in Odd being devirtualized.

"I don't think that I'm ever going to let him live that one down," Ulrich laughed.

"The look on both of their faces when they were crushed was priceless," William declared, trying to catch his breath.

"C'mon guys," Xavier said, trying to keep a straight face-he was failing miserably, "We have a job to do. Let's get going." Xavier couldn't stop himself anymore, he collapsed onto the ground rolling with laughter. Aelita and Jeremie looked at him strangely.

"You know," Jeremie said, "I don't think that I've ever seen Xavier laughing, much less that hard."

"I know," Aelita responded, "He's usually all serious and shit, but to see him break down in laughter. That's kind of disconcerting."

"I know what you mean," Jeremie stated, "There have to be more monsters on the way; that can't have been all of them."

"Okay so what do we know about this place," Xavier inquired.

"All we know so far is that it is based on Norse mythology," Odd stated.

"Well, fuck," Xavier exclaimed, "We need to get more intel. We may need to deactivate a tower here in the future."

The group decided to continue along, exploring Niffleheim. They had a few more minor skirmishes with frost giants, but they were easy to beat now that they knew how to go about it. Then they ran across three Vikings.

"Should have seen that one coming," Ulrich muttered as he drew his sword. Xavier was already activating his power, and he was looking very grim at what he discovered.

"These guys can't be beaten with energy attacks. That means that Aelita, Jeremie, and I have to sit this one out," Xavier stated.

"How can you tell all that," Aelita asked.

"They have runes on their armor to protect them against out magic," Xavier explained simply.

"That makes sense," Jeremie proclaimed, "Have monsters with different kinds of weaknesses; that way if you combine the two together, you can have the ones that are strong against certain members of our group destroy them. This way they work better as a team. I'm starting to fear his genius level IQ."

"Works for me," William said off-handedly as he swung his sword at the front Viking. The Viking caught his sword with crook of his axe. The Viking tugged suddenly and forced William to let go of his sword.

"Guess the cavalry has to come to the rescue," Odd sighed as he fired a laser arrow at the Viking's face. The Viking never saw it coming. He dropped his axe, howling with pain. William took the opportunity and picked his sword. As he dove for his sword, however, another Viking swung his axe towards William's neck. Ulrich used his super sprint as he triplicated himself and blocked the axe while the other two went after the last Viking.

"Thanks," William said gratefully.

"Anytime," Ulrich declared as he held the Viking off for long enough to allow William a chance to get up. They nodded at each other and Ulrich threw the Viking off of him and drew his other sword. They attacked in tandem, one blocking the Viking while the other one sliced off parts of the armor. Within a couple of minutes, the Viking was stripped of almost all of his armor. Ulrich blocked the Viking's axe one last time while William sliced the Viking in half. The Viking let out a small grunt as it vanished in a puff of snow.

William and Ulrich decided to look at what everybody else had done. Odd had long since eliminated his enemy; he was still crowing about his victory. The other two Ulrichs had been fighting a long battle against their opponent. One of them had been destroyed, but the other one slid one of its katanas into the Vikings helmet. The Viking couldn't even grunt as it too vanished in a puff of snow.

"Fusion," Ulrich stated, making the clone come back into him.

"Well, that went better than the fight against those frost giants," William stated.

"That's because we actually knew how to beat these fuckers," Ulrich countered.

"At least we're getting some useful information while we're here," Xavier declared.

"How about we spend about ten more minutes here before we head back home," Jeremie offered.

"You know," Odd said, "As much as I love to kick monster ass…that actually sounds like a good idea."

The group continued to trudge through Niffleheim, occasionally stepping into deep spots in the snow. Off in the distance they saw a gleaming castle. It appeared to be made entirely out of ice. "He's there; I just know it," Erethyr stated.

"Well, of course," Odd joked, "Don't you know that every ego-tripping king needs an iceberg away from his glacier?" Everybody just took a step away from both Erethyr and Odd. Erethyr had her hands clenched into fists; she was seething with anger.

Odd chose this moment to turn around. "Why is everyone backing ooOOH SHIT!" He saw the look on Erethyr's face and knew that he was in deep trouble.

He tried to run away, but it got him nowhere. Before he took three steps, he already had a scimitar at his throat. Erethyr whispered almost seductively in his ear, "Just remember, I know where you eat." If Odd could have pissed himself on Lyoko, he would have at that moment. The look on his face was one of abject horror. Even after she walked away, he was rooted to the spot.

"I don't think that I've ever seen anybody that scared in my life," Ulrich whispered to the others.

"I don't think that I want to know what she said that spooked him that badly," Willliam stated under his breath.

"I've never seen Odd that scared," Aelita said, awestruck at the gravity of the moment.

"He looks like he wants to piss himself," Jeremie stated.

"Remind me to never get on her bad side," Xavier commented. Everybody just nodded in agreement. None of them had noticed the pack of wolves that had snuck up on them until it was too late. Before they even knew what hit them, the wolves had devirtualized everybody but Xavier, Jeremie, and Erethyr. The wolves disappeared just as suddenly as they had attacked.

"What the fuck just happened here," Jeremie asked, sounding like he was panicking.

"I think that our friends just became some new monster's bitches," Xavier declared, likewise panicking.

"We just need to calm down and watch each other's backs," Erethyr said calmly. They came together and had their backs facing each other. They were looking around, weapons at the ready; they were ready to fight this new adversary.

One of the wolves decided to show itself. It boldly walked up and declared, "My name is Fenris. I am the leader of the Fenrir wolves. What is your business here on Niffleheim?"

"We are merely on an exploration mission," Erethyr stated boldly.

"Ah, I see that you are the only one in your group that isn't a coward," Fenris smirked as only a wolf can, "I should have realized that when you frightened that purple cat. How about a deal?"

"What kind of deal," Erethyr inquired.

"I'll let you pass freely, if you can best me in combat," Fenris stated.

"How do I know that you won't go back on your word," Erethyr asked.

"I'm a wolf of my honor," Fenris proclaimed.

"Fine," Erethyr stated. She was staring down Fenris. If he knew fear, he would have been backing down from the stare that she was leveling at him.

"I see that you are the feisty one," Fenris declared, "Let's see if you are all talk or if you have any fight in you, shall we?"

Erethyr drew her scimitars and kept staring down Fenris. Fenris merely stared back at her, waiting for an opening. The two opponents stayed locked in that position for what seemed like hours; then Erethyr decided to lunge for Fenris. Fenris jumped to the side and tried to bite her neck. Erethyr was waiting for this; she quickly spun around and kicked the beast up over her. She used her own momentum to get herself back on her feet and turned around to face her foe. Fenris did likewise. The two now decided to size each other up, trying to find some sort of weakness. Erethyr had long since learned how to feign one, and Fenris took the bait. He charged in and spun around as he got close to her, attempting to trip her. Erethyr jumped over this attack and put her scimitars at the beast's throat.

"Well, I guess I should have seen that one coming," Fenris laughed, "You have bested me in combat. As per my word, I shall let you pass unhindered."

Erethyr sheathed her scimitars and heard a noise coming towards her. She quickly ducked and saw a wolf flying over her. "I thought you said that you wouldn't hinder our movement," she exclaimed, obviously outraged.

"That's right; I said that I wouldn't. I never said anything about my underlings," Fenris smirked. Erethyr mentally cursed herself. She had fallen prey to one of the oldest tricks in the book. She watched as Xavier and Jeremie were taken out, leaving her to fight ten wolves alone.

Erethyr drew her scimitars and shouted, "I will not go down without a fight, you flea-bitten mongrels!"

"You are going to regret saying that," Fenris growled. All ten of his wolves lunged at Erethyr, attacking in tandem. They tried to catch her catch her off guard, but she swung her blades furiously. She left no opening for the wolves to attack. She beat down all ten of them and turned towards Fenris, death gleaming in her eyes. She was all too aware of the crashing noise behind her. Before she could do anything about it, she was sliced in half by a frost giant.

"Ymir is going to be most displeased with how you were dealing with those intruders," the frost giant warned.

"Tsk, tsk," Fenris stated, "You may not like my methods, but it dealt with the vast majority of them; something that your people seemed incapable of doing. They don't know my wolves' true weakness yet, but I saw their previous fights and how they took down your warriors and those Vikings with ease. I caught them completely off guard at every turn, even going so far as to feign defeat. Really now, you are just too blunt."

"We'll just see what Ymir has to say about this," the frost giant grumbled, leading the way back to the castle.

"I already know what he is going to say," Fenris thought to himself, "Because I did exactly what he designed me to do."


The Computer Lab
Xavier was pouring over the information that had been gathered from Sector Five while creating the program. In the few minutes since his defeat on Lyoko, he had already made much headway on it. Erethyr was beating herself up over falling for such an obvious ploy. Odd had handed Ulrich his twenty bucks and was trying to stay as far away from Erethyr as possible. The rest of the group were started to get concerned about Erethyr. They were starting to get worried that she was starting to lose hope that Damon could be brought back.

"I think that she lost what hope that she had after seeing those monsters," Jeremie said.

"I know what you mean," Yumi responded, "She been looking kind of dejected since she got back. What all happened in there?"

"There were some tough fights," Ulrich explained, "And those monsters seemed to have been designed specifically to take us down. That could have only made things worse for her."

"At least Damon didn't make an appearance himself," Aelita commented.

"Yeah, if he'd shown up I'm sure that she would have lost it," William stated.

"Screw being done by lunch tomorrow," Xavier ecstatically proclaimed, "I should have this done by tonight with all the information I got in Sector Five!"

"We still have one problem though," Yumi stated, trying her hardest not to burst his bubble, "How are we going to fuse the two? It's not like he is just going to give us a big enough opening for one of us to touch it to him."

"I don't think that we are going to have to worry about that," Franz stated, looking grim.

"In spite of sounding trite and cliché, I'm going to ask the question," William sighed, "What do you mean?"

"I just got some more information from Cid," Franz responded, "In two days, not only is SAI going to attack Earth again, but so is Damon."

"This can't be good," Jeremie stated.

"Oh, it gets worse," Franz stated, "That new girl will be here tomorrow. As soon as she gets here, she will be thrown into the middle of this epic conflict."

"Well fuck," Ulrich proclaimed, "This isn't going to be pretty."


Niffleheim
"You did well today, Fenris," Ymir declared.

"Thank you, your majesty," Fenris responded.

"After your fine work today, I think that I shall promote you to be my second in command. In the unlikelihood that something should happen to me and I'm incapable of being the ruler here, you shall take control," Ymir declared.

"I am honored, your majesty," Fenris bowed.


St. Louis International Airport
"I can't believe that I'm actually going to be going to France," Cassandra exclaimed. She had shoulder-length blonde hair, hazel eyes, was wearing a black t-shirt that said 'Silence is Golden, Duct Tape is Silver and Easier To Get A Hold Of', white capris, and black Converse sneakers.

"Indeed," Mr. Malsvir stated, "We can finally get out of this wretched neighborhood. It will be nice to work alongside Gary again."

"You two have been friends since kindergarten," Mrs. Malsvir responded, "I swear, you two are inseparable."

"It's been two years since the last time that I saw Damon," Cassandra said, she had a look of wonderment on her face, "I wonder what he's going to say when he sees his supposedly dead girlfriend in the flesh. OOOH this is going to be sooo exciting!"

"I've been hearing some of the stuff that has been going on in the area, however," Mr. Malsvir declared, "And it is rather disconcerting. Kids, no older than Cassandra, are fighting against some evil rouge AI. Why do they feel as though they are the only ones that can fight this mess? Why not the cops?"

"Maybe because they are the only ones that know how to stop that horrible being's evil plans, dear," Mrs. Malsvir replied.

"All I'm wondering," Cassandra declared, "Is why we haven't gotten our free peanuts yet!"

"Because we're not on the plane yet, sweetie," Mrs. Malsvir responded.

Cassandra sighed when she saw a cart full of airline peanuts, "So many nuts, so little time…"