Disclaimer: I don't own digimon. I own Diamonte Peak.

Friendship or Love

Chapter 6 Cody Decodes the Code

"Izzy, has Gennai written yet?" Veemon asked. Izzy clenched his fist. "No! For the seventieth time he hasn't." The way his said those words were so uncharacteristic of Izzy. Mimi glanced up. "Izzy, don't be so hard on Veemon. He only wants to help." She said gently.

"Easy for you to say. No one depends on you to get every calculation right." Izzy sarcastically muttered. He got up and ran off.

"Where's he going?" Cody asked.

"Don't worry. He'll come back." Tai reassured Cody.

"But how do you know?" Cody persisted. Tai nodded his head at Izzy's laptop that was lying carefully in Izzy's kit. "He would probably die for his laptop." Cody said nothing and ran off in the direction that Izzy had gone. Tai leaned on one elbow.

"How could you say that about Izzy?" Kari demanded.

"It's true." Tai said.

"But now both Izzy and Cody have run off. We don't need both gone." Kari said.

"Well I'm sorry." Tai leaned forward to glare at Kari.

"Hey guys don't fight about it. They'll come back and everything will be okay." Sora calmly reminded them. Kari smiled. "Sorry Tai."

"I could never be mad at you." Tai grinned at his little sister.

"Aw. Just like a good old story." Gatomon grinned.

Cody hurried after Izzy's shadow. It wasn't hard because although Izzy was a genius in academic things, he was no athlete.

"Izzy! Wait up." Cody puffed. Izzy stopped and turned around to see Cody.

"We only depend on you because you are the one that knows what's right." Cody said.

"Yeah, but you don't know the pressure." Izzy sighed.

"We don't care whether you get things wrong because we know that you'll figure out a way to make it right." Cody said.

"You think?" Izzy smiled. Cody nodded firmly. "Come on. They're all worried about you."

"Hey I'm sorry I ran off." Izzy said apologetically.

"Don't worry. All is forgiven." Matt said.

"Beep Beep!" Everyone stared at the laptop. Izzy hurried to see whether it was from Gennai.

"It says: Hello digidestined. It's great to know all of you got there safely. Well I did read up about it and the ancient script says: Drink and thirst no more. Dive and find great treasure. Read and learn. I'm not very sure what it means. Hopefully you kids can figure it out. Well you'll get another email from me later. See you then. From Gennai." All the digidestined had crowded around Izzy's laptop.

"What could that mean?" Yolei asked incredulously.

"It doesn't make sense." Ken said.

"Do you think they're supposed to be connected?" Yolei asked.

"Maybe." Izzy shrugged.

"Can anyone make anything of it?" Sora asked. Everyone shook their head.

"Maybe if you take a nap and maybe a snack you might figure it out." Gabumon hinted. All the digimon looked up in agreement.

"We'll figure it out sooner or later. We could use a break." Tai said.

"Ok. Just a little one." Izzy said.

All the digimon grunted happily.

"That just hits the spot." Agumon sighed happily. He curled up into a ball.

"Nighty night. Oh wait, it's afternoon." Tentomon said. All the digimon fell fast asleep.

"Oh look. There's no more water and I'm thirsty." Mimi complained.

"Well there's a well over there. Go and get some water." T.K said. Mimi looked incredulously at him. Cody played those words back in his head. Then he played the ancient script back in his head. Drink and thirst no more. A well for water. Cody let out a gasp.

"What?" Davis asked lazily. Cody ran towards the well, armed with rope .

"Well at least someone is energetic for the water. Hey! He didn't take the bucket. I'll bring it." Kari said, rushing after Cody.

"Dive and find great treasure." Cody muttered to himself.

"Wha?" Kari said. Tying the rope to a tree and then himself, Cody dived into the well.

"What? Cody!" Kari screamed. T.K and Davis came running.

"What happened?" T.K asked.

"He jumped into the water." Kari leaned over the side. "Wait! That's not water." She grabbed a part of the rope and dived into the well. T.K looked at Davis before diving in. "Don't follow me. I need you to take care of the ropes." T.K said firmly. Davis sighed. "Yeah yeah. I got them."

Cody was aware that two other digidestined had dived in too. Reaching the bottom, he carefully stepped down and steadied Kari who was right behind him. Who, in turn, steadied T.K.

"Read and Learn." Cody said. He looked at the walls. "Look really carefully. Can you see some inscriptions?" He asked the other two.

"Yeah. There." T.K pointed.

"It says: The power we give to help the chosen ones will be for Light and Hope. To help them bare the power will be Love and Friendship. Travel to Diamonte Peak. The new evil will wait for you." Cody finished. Jotting it down, Kari turned to Cody.

"So the power is going to be given to T.K and I?" She asked.

"Yes, but Love and Friendship will help out." A deep voice entered the well. The three looked around, but couldn't see anything.

"Good luck." It said.

"So did you get the water?" Tai asked.

"Nope. We got the code. Thanks to Cody." Kari smiled. Everyone rushed to Kari to see what had been written.

"So none of us get the power except you, T.K, Matt and Sora?" Yolei asked. Kari nodded.

"Aw. What a let down." Yolei smiled. Matt hugged Sora. T.K exchanged a shy smile with Kari.

"Well at least it won't take as long as we thought it would." Joe said brightly.

Author's note: I know. I was on a roll and decided to write this one. Joe is 17. Matt, Sora and Tai are 16. Mimi and Izzy are 15. Yolei, Kari, T.K, Davis and Ken are 14 and Cody is 12.