Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or Danny Phantom, but not for lack of trying….or failing.

A/N: Hey, readers of this fanfic. In case you didn't know, this is Chapter 7. This chapter is dedicated to the other participant in my contest, RaveMasterShinobi. If you haven't read his story Bleach: Chains of Fate yet, you should. He may have only just started it, but it shows a lot of promise. I'm writing this chapter in commemoration of getting my twentieth review on this story. On another note, just for visualization purposes, Damon's crystal ice armor makes him about fifteen feet tall. With that out of the way, let's move onto the chapter. Please R&R, if you don't I'll give you a horrible virus via e-mail with the subject 'Stinky Cheese.' Okay so sue me, I own that Weird Al CD.

Grand China Restaurant, Downtown Amity Park
Odd, Cassandra, Damon, and Erethyr entered a fabulous looking Chinese restaurant on their double date. All the table were made out of maple with brass accents and legs, the chairs were made from similar materials, there were Chinese murals along the walls, and the aroma from within was enough to captivate even your pickiest diner. A waitress of Asiatic decent showed them to their table and left to bring them a starting dish.

"This place is fancy," Damon whistled, "Good thing my parents gave me a fair amount of money before we left."

"Yeah, this place is wonderful," Cassandra declared, "Thanks for taking me here, Odd." Cassandra gave Odd a deep kiss to emphasize her point.

"I agree Damon, who knew that both you and Odd were true romantics," Erethyr proclaimed softly as she kissed Damon affectionately.

The waitress came back as their lips unlocked with their Over the Bridge Soup; a dish of chicken with uncooked rice noodles, a slight amount of beef, raw eggs, and green onions. Damon looked at her and nodded his head as he proclaimed, "Gan Xie." The waitress nodded and walked off.

"What did you just say to her," Odd inquired.

"I just said thanks in one of the various Chinese languages. That was the only one that I knew how to say, although I don't know which one of the regions it came from," Damon explained.

"Wow, you have become quite the linguist since St. Louis," Cassandra declared.

"Well, you know," Damon stated humbly, rubbing the back of his head. Damon closed his eyes, then snapped them back open with a worried expression on his face.

"What is it," Erethyr inquired before assuming the same worried face.

"Okay, this is starting to freak me out! What are you two so worried about," Odd inquired boisterously.

"Not now," Damon groaned.

"It must be an AI thing," Cassandra shrugged. She turned towards the wall as she heard a rumbling sound, an inquisitive look upon her face. Odd looked towards the wall too, but his face was etched with concern.

"Oh, come on guys," Odd proclaimed, "It's not like some giant metal bull with huge black horns, burning red eyes, and acidic green smoke coming out of its snout is going to come through that wall any second." The wall came bursting down at Odd's words, and the creature standing before them proved him completely wrong.

"You and your big mouth," Damon groaned.

"You bastard," Erethyr hissed.

"Erethyr, please calm down," Cassandra stated consolingly.

"Like hell I'm gonna calm down," Erethyr shouted, "That bastard is ruining my first date in two months! I'm going digital!" Erethyr changed into her digital form, but she was surrounded in an angry pink aura, had an evil-looking falchion in one hand, and a murderous glare aimed at the bull. "DIE!!!"

"Erethyr, please calm the fuck down," Damon pleaded, but Erethyr didn't pay attention to him. She slashed at the metal bull with all her fury.

"You are gonna pay for what you did…with your LIFE," Erethyr yelled as she sliced the bull's head off, reducing it into a pile of pixilated rubble.

"ERETHYR, CALM THE FUCK DOWN OR I'M GONNA DO IT FOR YOU," Damon roared, anger evident from his tone of voice.

"What do you know about how I feel," Erethyr hissed.

"I know you're angry, but the monster's dead. If you don't calm down now, you're going to be the first one to see me pissed of without my old power set since I was in that gang way back," Damon growled.

"Oh, boo hoo. The guy that can't even be around our new foe is about to throw a temper tantrum," Erethyr boldly declared.

"THAT'S IT!!! I'M GOING DIGITAL," Damon shouted as he transformed into his digital form. He quickly engaged his crystal ice armor and started throwing punches at his girlfriend.

"With attacks like that, I'm surprised that you were ever a threat to us," Erethyr taunted as she sliced off one of Damon's ice arms. Damon howled in pain as he regrew his arm.

"You're going to pay for that," Damon growled as his body started glowing ice blue.

"What's happening," Erethyr demanded. Damon's eyes started glowing an eerie blue as he lunged towards Erethyr. She sliced at his hand with her falchion, but he merely caught it and threw a punch at her face.

"NOW I'M PISSED," Damon roared as he grabbed Erethyr, pinning her arms to her sides and walking out into the street. Erethyr's entire body, including her aura, started to get covered by a thick layer of frost as he held her in his icy grasp. Damon launched Erethyr into the air, and as she came back down he jumped up and punched her down to the ground with all his might.

"GAAAAAAAAaahh," Erethyr cried in pain as she hit the ground. Her aura disappeared and she went back to normal. Her face went from infuriated to deathly frightened, but Damon didn't notice in his frenzied rage. Cassandra and Odd quickly burst out of the hole in the wall to see this scene.

"This is not good," Cassandra gasped.

"You don't know the half of it," Odd stated, "You weren't there on Damon's first visit to Lyoko. If it hadn't been for Erethyr, he'd have stayed under Xavier's control when we knew him as XANA. I'd say that he's as mad as he was back when he had the full use of his rage power. This is really not good!"

Damon came crashing down on top of Erethyr, causing her to cry out in pain. He picked up Erethyr and threw thirty feet away as his armor started to melt off. He ran at Erethyr's limp form, his armor completely melted off by the time he got there, and proceeded to beat the living daylights out of her. Damon lifted Erethyr over his head and quickly brought her down over his raised knee.

"I'm going digital," Cassandra declared as she too transformed into her digital self, but this time to put an end to the fighting. Odd followed suit and they both ran at their friends. Damon picked Erethyr up by the throat and proceeded to punch her, not even stopping when blood started dribbling from her mouth. Odd ran past them, and turned around to get a good look at Damon's face; all he saw was blind rage and encroaching death.

"You just had to bait him, didn't you," Odd groaned as he started firing laser arrows at Damon.

"Put her down," Cassandra shouted, her arm pointed towards Damon, "I don't' want to hurt you!" Damon threw Erethyr's limp and bleeding form at Cassandra and went after Odd.

"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO STOP ME FROM CALMING HER DOWN," Damon roared.

"DUDE, OPEN YOUR EYES," Odd shouted, "She went from being mad to being scared to death of you once she realized that you were actually trying to kill her!" This snapped Damon out of his rage as he slowly turned to look at Erethyr. He finally saw the terrified expression on her face.

"Erethyr," Damon gasped as he tentatively took a step forward, only to see her cringe in fear. Damon turned and ran away, tears falling from his face.

"Damon," Cassandra called after him, but he didn't notice; he just kept on running. Odd walked up to her.

"Let him go, he's probably really shaken right now. After all, he just tried to kill the girl that he has loved since he first saw her," Odd stated. He and Cassandra both carried Erethyr to a nearby hospital, hoping that she could recover from the physical, mental, and emotional trauma that had just occurred.

One Week Later, Amity Park Hospital
"It looks like Damon has turned to his old ways," Ulrich stated.

"He should be ecstatic since Erethyr just got released from the hospital today," Aelita declared.

"If you'd seen the look of fear on her face, then you'd know why he is so depressed," Odd stated, thinking back to that incident.

"At least GEVI's been quiet," Jeremy stated.

"Last time I visited the hospital, Erethyr was actually asking for Damon. I think that she wanted to apologize for getting him to fly off the handle like that," Cassandra proclaimed as the approached Erethyr's room.

"It sucks that she's going to be bound to a wheelchair for a week or two," Danny said, "Shall we go in?" The group entered the room to see Erethyr struggling to move herself into a wheelchair.

"Need any help with that," Sam inquired.

"Yeah, thanks…where's Damon, I need to talk to him," Erethyr hesitantly inquired.

"Listen, he's really shaken up about what happened. He's become extremely reclusive, the only time that we see him anymore is at school, and even then he won't talk to us," Cid stated morosely.

"Oh…I see," Erethyr said, obviously let down by the news, "I really have to apologize to him-"

"For what," Sam demanded, "He almost killed you! He should be the one that's apologizing to you!"

"I baited him into attacking while I was mad," Erethyr shouted, "I knew that I was pissing him off, but all I wanted was a fight! I fucking hate this uncontrollable rage ability! If it weren't for this damn ability then none of this would have happened!"

"Erethyr…" Cassandra started to say.

"Don't Erethyr me! I finally understand why Damon reduced his rage power knowing that it would delete mine," Erethyr shouted, tears streaming from her eyes, "This power just makes things worse! It was what got him to have to play the hero a lot! It was what eventually made him commit suicide! And now, it almost got him to kill me! I fucking hate it!"

"We'll try to talk to Damon as soon as we can," Ulrich declared, getting Erethyr to turn her tear-streaked face towards him, "He is probably the only person that can help you through these tough times. He has the most experience when it comes to controlling that much anger; he might even be able to train you into how to use it."

"You're forgetting about one big thing Ulrich," Odd proclaimed, "Damon ran away in tears when he saw Erethyr cringe in fear from him just stepping towards her. It will be a long while before he'll even be able to look at her again without breaking down in tears. Right now there are only two people that he could possibly help him through these tough times."

"And who would that be," Danny inquired.

"The only two in our group that have experienced similar heartbreaks, Xavier and Sahra," Odd replied.

"You're being unusually insightful today, what gives," Jeremy inquired.

"I honestly don't know. It might have to do with the fact that I saw what happened after the fight, and because of that I can empathize with Damon a lot better," Odd responded, shaking his head.

"Did I really look that bad," Erethyr inquired after a long pause.

"The look on your face almost had me on the verge of tears," Odd replied.

"If it did that to you then…Damon must feel absolutely horrible," Sam blurted out.

"He might be home by the time we get there," Aelita proclaimed hopefully. A look crossed Erethyr's face as she came to a horrible realization.

"Jeremy, do you think that you could check how often the scanners have been used since last week," Erethyr inquired urgently.

"Sure, but I don't see why-," Jeremy replied as he pulled out his laptop, when the same thought that crossed Erethyr's mind crossed his, "I think I know what you're thinking." Jeremy started typing frantically until he found what he was looking for.

"What is it, Einstein," Odd inquired.

"Damon's trying to use Nysis as a way to get away from us," Jeremy declared, "Come on! We have to get there before he does anything that we're going to regret!" With that, the group rushed out of the hospital back to Nysis Headquarters. Jeremy and Erethyr were hoping to God that Damon wasn't about to do what they thought that he was trying to do…take GEVI and her generals on all on his own.