1 Moon Goodes Chapter 1 (Beginning)

The sky is orange and is just turning red. The last rays of the sun still touch the horizon and the sea beneath it. While the sky is already drawn back into the dark blue of the night.

Now after sunset life really starts in some parts of the city, just like in mine Below me on the streets now life begins. The shine of the luminous signs and street lamps try to create the illusion of righteousness. But don't be deceived especially in my neighborhood, there are more drug dealers and pickpockets than anywhere else, hidden between the houses. In the dark streets, one or another illegal business goes down, despite legal guardians here and there trying to suppress the scene. No matter how bright the stars shine, they can no longer illuminate these streets, all alone these moon children have no chance. There mother Luna the Moon was neglected years ago, deemed unnecessary and kicked out of heaven.

I close my eyes and remember my beautiful childhood days, playing with my sister, before everything turned down the hill, before my father and mother died and left a broken and torn family behind.

Below me, clubs begin to open and I jump from one skyscraper to the next. I invisibly slip to the ground levels wearing a cloak of shadow and light.

In a side street, I dropped my coat and integrated into the night traffic. Surrounded by party visitors, already drunk, as well as the usual pickpockets and prostitutes, I walk towards Mittelstadt. The city was officially divided into 16 districts, but actually it was easier to divide them, by daylight, into three rings: center, there were the shopping malls, ministries, chancelleries and everything that wanted to be as far away from crime as possible, also there lived the rich in the lofts above their company skyscrapers.

Then there was Mittelstadt, where the middle class lived in a more or less secure area. Well and then there is the outer city, divides into the Seaside were villas for the big shots and tourists lived and the opposite side were only the poorest and smallest criminals and let's not forget drug addicts, as well as the forgotten, lived.

At night, on the other hand, it's even easier to divide the City: in the part of the city where doors are closed and Keys turned in Locks and the other were Lights went on and doors are opened.

I was on my way to the Guild where I wanted to place my order. I had successfully brought my client back home.

As a member of the guild, I took care of all sorts of jobs that neither the legal guard nor the police wanted to take care of. The police felt it was their responsibility to protect normal mortal people and the law enforcer who only accepted magic matters found my jobes to dangerous or not law beneath them. Everything that falls in between or in a gray zone of the law is attributed to the guild, and I spent the last two weeks accompanying a super-rich businessman on a business trip.

Now I was on my way to the guild to register my job as finished and get paid.

After two more cross streets, I stand in front of the temple of the gods.

Because at a time when gods had revealed themselves and also like to involve themselves in mortal live one should always make sure to be on their good side.

Unlike many beliefs supposed, there are two sides like the sides of a coin. The first one is the sun side who commands light and warmth while the second is the younger sibling, the moon and night commander.

Sun and moon lived in harmony as siblings.

Sadly the younger sibling was blamed by the people and later the gods to be the birth of everything dark in the world as it was borne in her night.

Desperate and hurt the moon left the sky and with it the night.

So the night became a dark place again.

I look at the temple for a few seconds and continue my way to the nearest traffic light. There I turn and follow the road until I stand in front of the Guild Hall. The imposing stone building is over 200 meters long and is over 12 floors high.

I walk through the entrance portals and go to the counter.

The lobby had only counters and "task boards" displaying the latest public works. The switch was to take on and carry out orders.

Today seems to be a quiet day because I do not even have to queue to get a counter.

When I see Sophie smiling apologetically on the other side of the counter, I know that the day or what's left isn't going to be spent in me sleeping.

Sophie is my best friend since joining the guild .....