Disclaimer: I do not own DNAngel, its plot, its characters, etc. I only own my OCs.

A/N: In order to avoid any confusion, please take time to see the monologue cues below:

'Diana/Dala telepathically talking to Dala/Dark'

'Dala/Dark telepathically talking to Diana/Daisuke'

Chapter 1

Daisuke Niwa was rushing to get to the station until he accidentally ran into someone as they both fell towards their ground on their bottoms.

"I'm sorry. I was in a hurry and didn't know where I was going." Daisuke was rubbing his aching head as he looked towards the girl in front of him, also rubbing her aching head. "I'm really sorry. Is your head okay?"

"Yes. No need to apologize." The girl got up on her feet and helped Daisuke on his feet. "I wasn't looking where I was going also. I'm Diana Minaro, by the way."

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Minaro. I'm Daisuke Niwa." Daisuke then remembered what he was supposed to be doing before his encounter with Diana. "Oh no! I have to hurry before I'm late to see Ms. Harada! Sorry that I can't stick around longer, Ms. Minaro. I'm in a hurry."

"It's okay, Daisuke. And call me Diana. I'm not really fond with formalities." Daisuke nodded his head and left. "That Daisuke sure is nice. Wait! I almost forgot that I have to get to my new school before I'm late!"

Diana started running towards the direction Daisuke went until the gray amulet around her neck started to react, causing Diana to come to a halt as she held out the amulet from inside her blouse.

'The amulet is reacting again. I wonder why it's been doing that since I got here. But this time it felt stronger after Daisuke ran off. Strange.' Diana looked down at the amulet around her neck as she put the thought in the back of her head and continued to run. 'Could it mean something?'

Daisuke was sitting at his desk, lost in his thoughts of depression until he noticed someone standing over him by the look of the person's shadow.

"I didn't expect to see you here, Daisuke." Daisuke looked up and saw Diana standing before him with a smile on her face. "If I knew that you went to this school then I would've walked here with you."

"Ms. Minaro? I didn't expect to see you here either. Then again, you are wearing our school's uniform. I didn't notice until now. You must the new student Takeshi told me about."

"Yup. And didn't I tell you to call me Diana instead?" Diana sat down in the seat next to Daisuke. "Is it alright if I sit here, Daisuke?"

"Um, yeah. It's alright with me." It was that time that Daisuke noticed the amulet around Diana's neck. "That amulet must be an heirloom. It looks like it was made centuries ago."

"It is, actually. Thanks for noticing. Other people usually ask me why I wear an antique junk around my neck." Diana held it up so Daisuke can get a better look. "But I don't care what they say about it. This amulet is very valuable to me and my family."

'Diana reminds me a lot of Ms. Harada. They're both sweet, innocent-like, and they both almost sound alike. Not to mention that they almost look alike too. The only difference is the two hair bows holding the pigtails in Diana's hair. I wonder if they're related.' Daisuke was pulled out of his thought s when he noticed Risa Harada rushing up to them with an excited look on her face. 'I wonder what Ms. Harada's excited about?'

"Rika! It's so good to see you again after all those years!" Risa jumped at Diana and captured her in a big hug. "Riku and I really miss having you around. How come you didn't tell us that you and your parents moved here?"

"It's good to see you too, Risa." Diana smiled at Risa before she noticed Riku walking up towards the group. "Hey Riku. How are you?"

"I'm fine. Risa, let go of Rika before she runs out of air." Risa released Diana from her hug before moving to stand next to her. "So how have you been, Rika? When were you planning to tell us that you moved here?"

"I've been good. I wanted to surprise you, but I didn't know how to contact your family." Diana noticed Daisuke giving them confused looks. "What's with the look, Daisuke?"

"How do you know the Harada twins?" Diana looked at the twins then back at Daisuke with a smile on her face. "And why do they call you Rika when you told me your name was Diana?"

"Niwa, Rika's our cousin. We call her Rika because that's her name." Risa said as Daisuke still looked a bit confused.

"Daisuke, my full name is Rika Diana Harada Minaro. My mom happens to be the twin's mother's sister." Diana said as Daisuke put his hand on his head. "Do you understand now?"

"I guess so. Huh?" Daisuke noticed that Diana's amulet starting to react for some reason. "Um, Diana? There's something going on with your amulet."

Diana noticed her amulet reacting again as she immediately covered it with her hand and ran out of the classroom and into the girls' restroom and faced the bathroom mirrors.

"Dala Mist, what's going on? The amulet's been reacting since we got here, which means there's something bothering you. Tell me what's wrong." Diana was looking at, not her reflection, but a woman that looks sixteen years old. "Well?"

Dala had blue eyes and long waist-length dark blue hair that was being held back by a black hair ribbon She was wearing the female school uniform like Diana, except it looked a bit small on her. She was also wearing the same amulet Diana has around her neck.

"It's nothing, Diana. It's just that this town reminds me so much of what happened forty years ago. Before I forget, you should be careful when wearing that amulet in public, Diana." Dala said as Diana nodded in understanding. "We don't want him to find out who you are."

"I know, Dala."

Afterschool Diana was walking down the school hallway until she noticed Daisuke messing with the key pad for the lock of the school art room. She watched as he managed to crack the lock's code. Daisuke was about to go inside the art room until he noticed Diana standing nearby, which started to make him worry about something. Diana could see it on his face as she walked up to him.

"It's okay Daisuke. Your secret's safe with me. You don't need to worry." Daisuke relaxed and started to head inside the Art Room. "I also got assigned Art Room cleaning duty to take over for my cousin Risa."

Diana was about to head into the room until she felt a presence behind her. She turned around in a fighting stance and saw that it was Satoshi Hiwatari.

"You really startled me there, Satoshi." Diana relaxed her stance before she and Satoshi walked into the art room. "Are you in cleaning duty like me and Daisuke?"

"As a matter of fact, I am." Satoshi, Diana, and Daisuke started to clean the art room after Daisuke turned on the lights. "How was your first day, Ms. Minaro?"

"Everyone has been nice to me. I really enjoyed my first day. Thank you for asking. And please call me Diana." Diana finished putting away the supplies before she realized something. "I wonder why there aren't more people helping out with cleaning duty."

"I told them that they didn't have to come. I needed some time alone with the two of you." Diana and Daisuke stared at Satoshi with curious looks. "I was wondering if you're free tonight."

"I'm busy tonight since today's my birthday, but I'm not sure about Diana. Diana, are you—"

"I'm also busy tonight, Satoshi. My family and I still need to finish unpacking. I'm sorry. Maybe some other time when I'm free." Diana gathered her stuff and walked out of the room. 'If I'm free."

Diana arrived at the house that she was supposed to stay in, according to her parents' will, as she approached the door and knocked on it. Emiko Niwa answered the door in less than two minutes as she welcomed Diana and let the girl in.

"It's so good to finally meet you, Diana. Your parents have told me everything about you and asked me if I wanted to take care of you before they died. I said 'yes' of course. You'll meet my son when he gets here. Until then, you can wait up in his room if you like. Your stuff's already upstairs in the room that's two doors down." Diana started to head down the hallway until she stopped at mid-step. "Oh wait Diana. I left the training traps on. Do you think you can reach the main switch down the hall?"

"Sure thing, Ms. Emiko." Diana looked back at Emiko before she looked ahead and noticed the floor sensors in front of her. "I'll just have Diox turn off the traps. She's in my bag relaxing."

Emiko held up Diana's shoulder bag as a little that looked like a gray-furred and green-eyed version of Wiff hopped out of it and into Diana's arms.

"Diox, do you think you can turn off that switch down the hall?" Diana said as Diox 'kyuued' in agreement. "I'm counting on you."

Diana threw Diox towards the switch as Diox grabbed a hold of the switch and turned off the training traps. Diana and Emiko walked down the hall, with Diox on Diana's shoulder, and into the family room where Daiki was reading the newspaper until he noticed to two females, three if counting Diox, enter the room.

"You must be Diana, Dala's current tamer. I suggest you head up to your new room and get ready for tonight." Diana nodded her head and headed upstairs to her new room before Daiki looked towards Emiko. "Did you tell her about Daisuke yet?"

"I wanted that to be a surprise. After all, it's not everyday that you have the famous phantom thief and the famous shadow thief living under one roof." Emiko then heard someone go through the front door. "Daisuke must be home. I better turn on the training traps."

Diana stepped into her room and found all her stuff completely unpacked and put away in their proper places, and everything that she needed for her stat was already provided for her, even her laptop was set up on her own personal working area.

"I can't believe they got everything that I needed. Ms. Emiko and her family sure are nice." Diana sat down on her bed with light blue sheets. "I guess I should go downstairs and thank them for everything they've done for me."

Diana got off her bed and started to head downstairs until her amulet started to react but more actively that before as Diana started to feel a strange feeling inside her. She dropped down to her knees while hugging herself as her brown eyes turned blue, her brown hair grew down from her shoulders to her waist and turned dark blue, and her body started to grow in length and development. Diana looked at the mirror next to her and was looking at not the reflection of herself but the reflection of Dala.

'It happened again, didn't it Dala?'

'I'm afraid so Diana. But the transformation wasn't complete. You're still in control. Looks like you'll be doing tonight's heist.'

'Don't worry about that, Dala. I'll let you handle the good stuff.'

'It's alright Diana. You take this one. I want to see how you handle this kind of heist since this is no longer a practice run. This is the real thing.'

Diana and Dala's conversation was ended when they heard something fall in the room next door, so Diana ran to check it out. She heard someone run down the stairs and followed until she saw someone wearing the boys' uniform for her school and recognized the person's voice as Daisuke's.

"Daisuke? Is that really you?" The person turned around and was surprised at her appearance. "Are you okay?"

"Diana?" Diana nodded her head. "What happened? You completely changed just like what happened to me. But why do you look so calm about it?"

"I had a feeling it was you, Daisuke. And to answer your question, I've been through this before for a few times." Diana flipped over Daisuke's head and landed on the bottom of the stairs, surprising Daisuke. "Why else did I choose to keep your secret?"

Daisuke was still in shock, so Emiko answered for him instead as she walked up to Diana and Daisuke, who finally got out of his surprised trance.

"Sorry Diana. His grandfather and I haven't told Daisuke about Dala Mist, the famous Shadow Thief and Dark's rival from forty years ago." Emiko noticed the time on the clock. "Looks like it's almost time for you two to go steal the Sacred Maiden statue. You two better go and get ready."

Diana ran past Daisuke and into her room to change for her first real heist. She changed out of her school uniform and changed into a blue tube top, black pants, and black calf-length boots. She grabbed a blue hair ribbon from on top of the dresser and used it to tie her hair into a ponytail. She put on a black half-length jacket before heading out of her room, not before grabbing Diox and putting her on her shoulder.

'Time to put my skills to the test.'

'Good luck, Diana.'

Daisuke didn't want to go at first, but after some convincing he decided to assist Diana in stealing the Sacred Maiden statue. Daisuke and Diana were flying their way towards the museum with Wiff and Diox as their own pair of wings. They managed to get into the museum, even though they got themselves noticed by the reporters and authorities, as all the authorities rushed into the museum. Diana used Dala's shadow illusion abilities to make the statue look invisible while Daisuke disguised himself as one of the officers and tricked the authorities that Dark and Dala were already heading out through the museum's main entrance.

"Nice job on your first heist." Diana removed her illusion off the statue. "Now crack the code and we're out of here. I'll go search the area."

In a snap of her fingers, Diana disappeared in darkness before Daisuke started to work on cracking the guard code for the Sacred Maiden Statue until he succeeded in doing so. As if on cue, Diana reappeared next to Daisuke when Satoshi suddenly appeared at the entrance to the room.

'Satoshi/Hiwatari? Why is he here?'

Diana and Daisuke were pulled from their thoughts when Satoshi threw something at Diana that had a net inside and trapped her. Satoshi then tackled Daisuke towards the ground while Diana tried to break free of the net but couldn't.

'I have to help Daisuke. Dala please help him!'

'You did good this far, Diana. I'll go ahead and take over, not only because your friend, but also so I can see my old rival.'

Dala took over as she used her shadow magic to free her when she noticed that Dark decided to take over as well. Dala made a shadow illusion of Dark while she hid within the shadows in order to confuse Satoshi. Satoshi was about to jump at the real Dark, but Dala's shadow illusion of Dark captured him in a bind of shadows. Dala and Dark flew to their escape with the Sacred Maiden in hand.