„Night adventure"

Naomi sat into a chair in her small office, with Kyra, jaguar that was assigned to help her with this case, leaning over the back of her chair, looking into small case file with few papers in it, that was put on the desk by Naomi. „So, let's see..." said Naomi to herself, opening the small case file. Kyra was quietly looking through the papers. And there weren't a lot of them.

There was only info about chief of Nocturnal district's police, chief Darkwing. He was middle-aged Black Flying fox, with black wings and fur, and dark orange eyes. He was chief of police in the underground district for a few years now, and sent reports to chief Bogo almost every day. But for last week, nothing was sent, and Naomi found out from the files, that almost no mammal entered or left Nocturnal district for.. almost a week.

„Let's get going." encouraged Kyra and walked to the door. „Wait! We know almost nothing!"

„Yes, that's exactly why we should go, right now. I don't see a reason why stay here and waste time. Come on." she opened the door and walked out, she didn't turn off the light, because it was never turned on. Almost all lights were turned off at the night, because the night officers liked it way better, with no flashy lights hurting their sensitive eyes. The only light coming into the room was from outside.

Naomi didn't have a choice, she closed the case and quickly ran to Kyra. „What do you think happened?"

„How should I know? Maybe Darkwing just forgot, or fell ill. We will have to go to the Nocturnal district's police department to find out. Let's get onto the subway, there's a train on Savanna Central station that will také us directly to Nocturnal district's centre." Naomi nodded, following the jaguar.

When they arrived on the Savanna Central train station, and went to rail that went to the Nocturnal district, no train arrived. They waited for almost half an hour, before asking a doe what happened. She got a bit scared when a police officer told her „I'm sorry," but got quickly confortable again after Naomi finished her question. „why there's no train going to the Nocturnal district?"

„Oh, you don't know?" she looked a bit surprised. „It was closed, about a week ago, no one really knowing why. I believe the only way to get to Nocturnal district is through main entrance on Troop Street in Downtown, although I don't know why anyone would want to go down there." Naomi smiled and thanked, looking back at Kyra after that doe left. „So?"

„I guess we wasted about two hours, let's get going."

„Is.. This it?" Naomi was looking at the entrance to Nocturnal district. It was a large gate, leading to a dark alley with staircase at the end. It was barricated with metal bars, like few abandoned subway station entrances. There was conveniently a hole in the bars, just big enough for two big cats to fit through. When Kyra and Naomi squeezed through, Naomi asked why would entrance to another district be barricated. Kyra just shook her head.

They were in a dark alley way with stairs at it's end, those lead deep down under the city. They went down, a cold wind blowing in their faces, indicating that they were close to the entrance to Nocturnal District. Stairs lead about a hundred meters down into the ground, and once they finally reached the bottom of the stairs, both Kyra and Naomi were tired. „So that's why no one uses this route.." said Naomi, breathing heavily. But it was worth it, the view was absolutely incredible.

In front of them it was- the Nocturnal District. Absolutely humongous cave with a city built in it. The ceiling was lit up with glowing fungus, which created a dark and relaxing light source for the district. From the ceiling were growing huge stalactites, some of which were inhabited. They had small houses built around them, with entrances for bats to land in.

The city below was built around a huge body of water, called „the Night lake", it provided individual water source for the district, if the supplies of water from the Rainforest district were cut, which now they were.

The city was build in a very old medieval-like style, with wood, small houses everywhere. Unlike Downtown, the Nocturnal district was built in a more nostalgic-like theme. There were no lights in the houses, why would they be? In the streets there were only few streetlights with glowing fungus lighting up the roads for non-nocturnal animals.

One thing that Naomi quickly realized, just after she finished being so amazed by the district was, that there was almost no movement. There were no bats flying around, no boats on the lake, no cars on the road. Although, she wasn't very surprised by the missing cars, considering almost no-one owned a car in the Nocturnal district.

„Will you finally come down, or you'll stare at the city for the rest of the night?" Kyra finally interrupted Naomi from her observations, reminding her that they were on a mission.

„Oh, yeah, absolutely." Naomi quickly followed her partner, walking down another set of stairs, which now felt almost end-less. They had to walk down another hundred meters or so to the bottom of the huge cavern and then walk up to the city. Naomi quickly realized that this was a case for more than just one night. And to be honest, it didn't really matter for her, she really wanted to spend some time with Kyra and she always wanted to visit Nocturnal district, maybe even meet chief Darkwing. She added to her speed, almost running down the stairs in excitement.

„Nocturnal district, hand us your secrets!"