„The night shift"
A sound of morning alarm echoed through small house in the Rainforest district of Zootopia. However, it was not morning, but late afternoon. The alarm rang so late because the animal that set it up didn't need to be up in the day.
The animal that owned this small house and set up this alarm was Naomi, young female jaguar, who worked at Zootopia ZPD. She was working as a cop at night, so she was getting up in late afternoon, and since her species was more nocturnal than day active, she liked it. However, not even Naomi liked getting up, pretty much like every mammal going to work.
Naomi yawned, sprawling on the confortable, soft, large bed. She got up, definitely awake, and went to the bathroom, quickly brushing her teeth and getting a shower. After that, she went to the closet and put up a police uniform. When she looked at the clock, it was almost the time for her to go, so she quickly looked outside if it was raining, and luckely, it was not, which was surprising, considering the weather in the rainforest distict. She took advantage of the good weather and quickly walked outside her small house, locking the door behind her.
When she walked on the street, she met many smiles and greetings of other residents of her neighborhood. She crossed the street and walked into a subway station on the Moss street. The train arrived soon, and about twenty minutes later it arrived in Savanna Central.
By that time, sun was already setting, and by the time Naomi walked into Zootopia's Police deppartment, it was already under the horizon. In the doors of ZPD, she walked into small rabbit officer, Judy Hopps, and a fox policeman, Nick Wilde. Those two solved one of the biggest cases the ZPD ever investigated, and that happened one week ago. She was very affraid in the time those savage predators were appearing, fearing that she might become one of them, and she might've lost her job too, thanks to that rabbit's „It's in their DNA" speech. Naomi didn't like that bunny very well, but at the end, everything ended nicely.
At the reception wasn't Clawhouser, his shift already ended. Instead, a black panther named Edward sat in the receptionist's chair. „Hey Naomi!" he waved at her as soon as he saw her. „Hi Edward!" she replied with a smile. Edward was so nice to her, always. She could almost swear that he liked her more than just a friend or a colleague. „You should hurry, Bogo has some big cases for us, and you know how he doesn't like staying past his work time." Edward winked at Naomi. She thanked him and hurried up to the meeting toom.
Almost everyone was already there, and also, almost everyone were big cats. Some day shift policemen joked that nightshift is more like „Cat shift", since almost all nightshift officers were big cats, due to their naturally nocturnal sences. As soon as she sat down in her chair, right in the front, doors on the right opened and a big water buffalo, chief Bogo entered the room. There was silence, no banging on the tables or loud roaring like the dayshift meetings went. The nightshift cat officers just sat there, waiting for chief Bogo to distribute cases.
„Fine, I'm going to make this quick," started chief Bogo, opening files on his desk. „there has been reported a thief going around in Sahara Square, officers Nighteye and Clawmark, you will patroll the streets. Officers Felines and Pardua," Naomi alerted, that was her and one of her colleagues, Kyra, a young female Javan leopard. To be honest, it was very rare to see a javan leopard in Zootopia, they lived in west Pursific ocean on the islands, but not many moved to and lived in Zootopia, Naomi was lucky to even see one of those large felines in her life, and now it seemed they got a case together. To be honest, she never talked so much with Kyra, and this was a good oportunity to get to know something about her, possibly even becoming close friends. Chief Bogo breathed in, preparing to give the case to them. „there has been a problem in our deppartment in the Nocturnal district. Chief Darkwing hasn't reported anything for a week, maybe something happened. Investigate it." Naomi stood up, together with Kyra. They walked to the chief and silently took the case file. Nocturnal district? She's never been in there, but she knew that Kyra did. No wonder Bogo left this case for the „Cat shift" officers, she didn't think that an a elephant or a wolf would've done a good job working in the Nocturnal district, where it was almost a complete dark, and where most of the nocturnal mammals lived, mainly bats, opposums, lemurs and nocturnal felines.
She was excited, this felt more like an adventure than just a regular, boring police case.