Disclaimer: I do not own DNAngel. It's called fanfiction for a reason, people.

Author's Note: Hello! Welcome to Chapter Two! Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up. I got a new computer, and going through switching them was kind of hard… my whole DNA file got lost!! I found it though. On an alternate note, this fanfic is probably going to be around four or five chapters… maybe longer if I have the energy and time.

Chapter Two

The Quack and the Cage

Dark's POV

"So… Daisuke… I think I'm a hamster," I said.

"Yeah, Dark, I noticed," he replied.

"And… uh… I think I turned Riku and Risa into hamsters too," I said sheepishly, indicating the brown and brownish-red hamsters laying a few feet away from me. They were both unconscious, which I could only attribute to the fact that I had magical ability and they did not.

"Dark!" Daisuke whined exasperatedly. He sighed and rubbed his temples, obviously, I was giving him a headache. "What are we going to do now?" he asked.

The sound of footsteps was coming from the doorway. "Shh! Daisuke! Get out of here!" I hissed in a whisper. Daisuke, who had now heard the footsteps, turned and ran out the doorway faster than you could say "kaito". I smirked (as much as a hamster can smirk), a little bit proud of his phantom thief abilities. Then, I turned to look at whoever was walking into the room.

The intruder was a short, old man with white hair that stuck out in tufts all over his head, a thick mustache, and glasses. He was wearing a white lab coat, the pocket of which bore the name of our target. It was the mad scientist himself, Izumi.

I hoped that as a hamster, I would be more inconspicuous, but he noticed us right away. Carefully stepping past the broken glass from the vial, he picked up the three of us in one hand and examined us closely. "Curious…" he muttered under his breath, and glanced at the broken vial's label, which had remained intact. "…you were once human?" he asked.

"You bet we were, mister!" I snapped. "Now turn us back before I… um…" not able to think of a good threat, I merely trailed off in a rather lame fashion. Ugh. Phantom thieves should not be hamsters. I much preferred being a human. Now how was I going to pick up girls!? This was ruining my life!

The old man merely chuckled maniacally. He was freaking senile, I knew it. "Well, I'm glad to see my experimenting with the Transformation Stone is going well," he said.

"What? You used the transformation stone for this!?" I shouted at him.

"Shh!" he hissed. "I suggest you stay quiet if you want to live," he cackled, and carried the three of us out the door and into the pet store.

For a moment I thought about biting his hand, but that would probably cause us to fall, and the floor was pretty far away. Even if I could somehow get little hamster-sized wings I wasn't sure if I'd make it. Besides, I didn't want him to drop Riku or Risa.

"Oh, hello Mr. Izumi," said a soft, pretty voice, interrupting my thoughts. I looked up to see a very nice sight. The voice belonged to a girl. And not just any girl. A pretty girl. She was tall and had long blonde hair and brown eyes. I would have flirted with her, had I not been two inches tall at the moment.

"Ugh, I hate my life," I muttered, and curled up into a little sulking ball on the old man's palm.

"Miyuki, could you take these three to the hamster cage?" Izumi asked her. So her name was Miyuki, huh? Ugh, she even had a cute name. If only I was human again…

"Sure thing!" she replied cheerfully, and I could feel myself being lifted out of Izumi's hands and into hers, which made me considerably less sulky. I opened my eyes and looked around. Riku and Risa were still asleep. We were sitting in both of Miyuki's hands, because she needed both to carry the three of us. I seriously considered crawling up her arm and inside of the baggy T-shirt bearing the store's logo that she wore… but I thought it would only freak her out.

She would probably scream, and that would get me in more trouble with Izumi.

The man was a quack.

And I was a hamster.

A hamster who, at the moment was being dropped into a large cage with a bunch of other hamsters. I squeaked, surprised at the hamster-y squeaking ability I now possessed despite the fact that I could still talk. And then I squeaked even louder as I noticed that the label on the cage we were being dropped into read "female". I was not a girl! Darn that Miyuki, she hadn't even bothered to check! I decided I didn't like her as much any more.

When we landed in the cage, I noticed that all the other hamsters were asleep. Come to think of it, I was feeling pretty sleepy myself. I quickly discovered that hamsters are nocturnal.

Author's Note: Okay, kind of random, huh? Well, hamsters are nocturnal, anyways. Hey, I just found out that Vic Mignona (Dark's voice actor) is going to be Zero in Vampire Knight! Squee! MAJOR SQUEE! This is my all-time favorite voice actor, people. Let's see here… Ed. Tamaki. Dark. Fai! And now Zero, too!!! WAIII, all my favoritests!