Well, here we are then, the one CATS fic I've been wanting to do for a little while now. Now I won't say much that the other CATS related fics I've done have been warm ups to this one, though although some are oneshots, they follow in an order and this one takes place before the setting of this one. but anyway, this chapter is the prologue that sort of settles the scene and takes place before the events of the show, also introduces us some characters that will appear later on.

So without further ado, its time to begin this story!

Chapter 1

The Vision

The heavy fog had never left the city of London all day, and was still hanging over the city throughout that night. Though there was little to no humans anyway in this part of the city this late in the night, it didn't stop letting all the city's thousands of cats to appear, and for some in this section of London, it was yet another night of guarding their base.

Nestled up on two metal rubbish bins within an alleyway alongside St Pancras railway station, two toms about four years old in human years, one was a brown tabby and the other a grey long haired tom, both sat watching for any signs of any suspicious activates that might come their way. The two of them shivered in the night air, many passing by would wonder why they wouldn't they go simply for the comfort of any indoor area, for they had to task of guarding this rundown part beside the station, which neither cat nor human hardly step foot in the area, especially for any cat. For this was the lair, St Pancras, was the haunt of the infamous mystery cat of London, the napoleon of crime...Macavity.

Furthermore, it was these two toms on guard duty that were only a few of the many stray or feral cats that Macavity had taken in for his own troops. Each one having their own skill either fighting, thieves, stealthy messengers to report or even ones that had a rare ability that the mystery cat was very keen for them to train those up for the future...magic.

"Bast I'm freezing out here!" The long grey haired tom shivered. "And we're been out here for hours and nothing has happened!"

The brown tabby didn't stare at his companion and continued to stare into the fog trying to make out anything within that thick smog. "Relax Nicolae," He spoke calmly. "You do remember that Macavity has placed us in charge on look out duty among all the others."

"But why is that, Adamin?" Nicolae asked, rubbing his paws together trying to keep warm in the winter air.

This time, the brown tabby stared at Nicolae with his brownish eyes and unruffled expression. "It's his way of giving us his respect to us. By the end of this when we're done, we'll be up the ranks soon."

"Either that or he hates you for not being perfect at magic," Nicolae offered dryly.

Adamin sighed sadly. He was one of the rare magic cats that Macavity, he himself being a magical cat himself (something that any cat finding out this fact would explain how he could escape from any situation) and that despite being trained by Macavity since he was found as a lost kitten, he still hadn't really mastered it, even now as an adult. He looked up towards the rooftops of the gothic looking station expecting to see the mystery cat up on the rood looking down, Adamin felt like he was a failure in his master's eyes.

"I hope I've been getting better," Adamin replied melancholy.

"To be honest," Nicolae said with a slight twinkle in his green eyes. "I think you have been getting better lately."

Adamin said nothing and carried on looking ahead into the fog. "One thing though has been bothering about Macavity of late."

The grey tom cocked a curious expression. "Oh yeah? What's that then? Was it something my dad said with those visions?"

"No not that," the brown tabby corrected. Nicolae's father was Augustus, one of the oldest cats in among Macavity's forces. Augustus and Nicolae had offered to join Macavity after running away from their own tribe some years ago, why they left was something that the two never brought up. Augustus however had a rare ability of seeing visions of random moments into the future, and this made the old tom a useful asset of the mystery cat for his various plans. Though sadly, the elder tom had been struggling of late of living and now never left the lair, not to mention the bitterly cold weather made it all the more worse for the poor elder cat.

Nicolae didn't say anything as his thoughts drifted back to his dad; it was when a sudden gust of cold wind broke him out of his thoughts. "Then, what is that is on your mind?"

"It's those two queens that Macavity brought back with him some months ago," Adamin reflected, remembering the day when two queens, both sisters, one a young black and gold queen and the other an older scarlet one, had been invited up into their leader's lair. Since they arrived, neither the two of them nor the rest of Macavity's forces had seen them since. "I think he's up to something."

"He's always up to something," Nicolae replied sarcastically, not really thinking deep into the subject. "He's the master of all crime in London, and the humans don't know it."

"I know that," Adamin groaned rolling his eyes. "I mean…what do you think he wants them for? And what were their names again…De…Dem…Demeter was one I think and what was the other?"

"Bombalurina I think," Nicolae added. "Isn't that one quite a looker don't you think?"

"Well…yes," Adamin admitted. "But why does he want a queen here for, let along two?"

Nicolae began to think over his friend's question fully. In truth, he didn't know himself though he did remember that night when the scarlet queen had ran away from the lair and was never to be seen again, leaving just this queen called 'Demeter' behind.

"He has been quite standoffish of late have you noticed?" Nicolae noted.

"Yeah," Adamin nodded. "There's been rumours flying about saying they been having arguments about something…hopefully he doesn't know we're all listening to them, right?"

"...Hang on," The grey tom thought for a moment for slapping his forehead. "Of course!"

"What is it?"

"Don't you get it?"

"What?"

"He wants that queen to become his MATE!"

The two were silent and didn't say anything for about a minute it felt, but the brown tabby was incredulous. That seemed out of character for Macavity to do such a thing, for him, all that the mystery cat wanted to do was take over the world or other destructive ideas, but this idea was not the Macavity he knew. But then again, why did he want those two queens for whatever reason in the first place?

"Just doesn't make any sense," Adamin sighed and rubbing the back of his neck. "I always t—" He stopped abruptly and stood up seeing something in the fog, coming towards them. "Heads up, we have visitors."

Realizing what his guard partner was saying, Nicolae stood up and stared at the unknown figures that were getting closer to them. But unlike the brown tabby, he had other ideas. "They could be some of our guys coming back from a patrol."

"I don't remember a patrol being ordered," Adamin hissed, his eyes narrowing at the unknown figures, he could now count four of them.

Finally the figures emerged from the mist and it was only then that the two guarding toms could see for themselves who they were. To their surprise, they recognized one of them almost straight away, the red queen Bombalurina. She was leading three toms, one a silver tabby, one a black and gold Maine Coon and finally a black and white bi-coloured tabby.

The four cats, who were headed towards a hole in the side of the station building, which itself was the entrance to the lair (it itself was in fact some sort of a labyrinth under the station platforms), they didn't seem to notice Adamin and Nicolae who still didn't understand what was going on.

"Why is she back for?" Nicolae asked still dumbfounded.

Then suddenly, a thought dawned on them, they had forgotten why Bombalurina would even return to this place. Demeter. She was after her sister, and this was a rescue mission.

The two toms stared at each other in shock. "We've got to tell the others!" Cried Adamin and the two quickly rushed over to the small entrance, in which the party of four had entered without strangely any resistance, where were the other guards? Were they the only ones on guard duty? That didn't matter right now as now; all they had to do now was stop the intruders.

They ran into the entrance and we're greeted by the sound of fighting taking place. "Where are they?" Nicolae frantically asked staring around in the darkness looking for them.

"Up there!" the brown tabby cried pointed towards the tatty looking staircase, that would've been used by the humans to get down to this level from the station platform, and there they saw the four intruders fighting off several of the Macavity's guards and knocking them to the floor, no doubt that soon the rest would be alerted to the seen.

"Quick, use your magic!" Nicolae yelled to the brown tabby.

A little smirk appeared on his face, this was a good chance to show of his magic that he'd been learning. "Have some of THIS!" And he fired a stream of lightning from his hand, but the party of four dodged the attack and hurried on heading deeper into the den.

Adamin tried to fire again just as they were nearly out of sight, but then all that he fired was a small shot of electricity that simply evaporated into the air.

"What was that?" The grey haired tom asked, stunned seeing what had happened to Adamin.

"Damn it!" The brown tabby cried as he tried again to shoot anymore lightning. "I always use up to much of my power, really have to learn to use not much of it!"

"Never mind that!" Cried Nicolae as he began running down the area that those four cats had gone down. "We've gotta catch those guys first!"

Forgetting briefly about his magic problems, Adamin followed on after his partner, with several others of Macavity's Hench cats joining them in the chase. What stunned the two of them was seeing several of the cats that had tried to fight of the intruders all lying on the ground looking pretty beat up, it seemed like these guys Bombalurina had with her were going to stop at nothing to get Demeter. Just then, Adamin had an idea as he and the others ran down the dark corridor.

"Wait a minute," Adamin said to Nicolae stopping him and pulling him to one side. "I've just noticed they're heading down that route that leads to Macavity's den."

"Yeah, so what? Nicolae replied as he saw the group heading round a corner onto the left in this maze of brick tunnels. "We have to stop them now!"

"No don't you get it?" Adamin explained. "See where they're going? Where they're going, there's another route that leads right directly in front of them, we can stop them there."

Nicolae looked over at a small hole in the brick wall, not really easily seen by human eye, but was just some of the many that the two toms near of the back of their paws. "Of course! Hopefully by then your magic will be ok then."

"Only one way to find out," Adamin uttered as they squeezed into the hole in the wall and hurried as fast as they could so they could face of those four cats on the other side of the tunnel, the brown tabby leading the way through.

The tunnel was quite icy due to the cold weather and led to quite a bit of slipping from both of them. Finally though they made it to the other side and thankfully for them, the interlopers had not arrived yet as they could hear their voices coming down the corridor. This was Adamin's chance to prove himself to Macavity.

From out of the darkness, Bombalurina's gang appeared and Adamin prepared to stop them by firing his lightning bolts at them. "Stop right there!" He cried as he flung his arms forward expecting his magic to work.

It didn't.

An awkward silence followed in that tight corridor as the embarrassed Adamin looked at his paws trying to figure out what had gone wrong. He let his arms hang by his side as he looked up at the four intruders, neither of them didn't know if to laugh at him nor be scared at what might happen next.

As Adamin tried to think of something to say, he didn't notice his own paws started to glow with magic, just as he started to feel his paws starting to tingle, it was too late to react. A sudden blast of magic from his paws pushed the unfortunate tabby up in the air and banged his head on the ceiling. From this impact, Adamin was knocked out as he fell towards the ground. It that moment, he would not have the chance to know what had happened as everything faded to blackness.

XXX

For what felt like an age, all that Adamin felt or saw was blackness and heard nothing. Then he began hearing voices, well, one as the sound carried on.

"Come on, you're almost awake," Came the voice, it sounded muffled at first, but then became clearer as he soon recognized it.

Slowly he opened his eyes, and then he could see a grey long hair tom looking over him, one that he knew only too well.

"Adamin," Nicolae said in a relive manner. "You alright?"

"Ugh," Adamin groaned as he tried to open his eyes further.

"Take that as a no then," Nicolae replied with a small grin on his face.

The brown tabby slowly sat up and looked around him, he was in the grey tom's den. "What…what happened?" He asked while rubbing his eyes.

Nicolae bit his lip and looked away. "Well…how do I put this?"

Adamin could read the expression on his friend's face, a face of disappointment. "…Let me guess…they got away?"

"Yes," Nicolae sighed sadly. "And they took Demeter with them back to wherever they came from."

Adamin didn't respond and only kept starring at his friend. "Wait…they took Demeter…and that was it? Nothing else?" He didn't know, he expected a big fight to take place with Macavity involved, and this just seemed rather anticlimactic for him.

"Yeah just like that," Nicolae replied curtly. "I didn't know what happened up in the boss's den, but I do remember that silver tabby carrying her out like if she was his mate or something...maybe she was."

"But how long was I out for?" Adamin then asked.

The grey tom suddenly chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "You aren't going to get over it, you've been knocked out for two nights n—"

"TWO NIGHTS?" Adamin jerked forward, "W-what happened to me?"

Nicolae didn't know how to respond. "The thing is…you knocked yourself out from that failed magic attack, remember?"

Adamin opened his mouth, but nothing came out as he then remembered the moment right up until he was knocked out. "Oh no…how many saw me?" He placed his paws over his head.

"Um…a few?" Nicolae replied sheepishly, he didn't want to know how the brown tabby felt.

"Oh Everlasting cat," Adamin shuddered. "I'd hate to see Macavity now. What would he say to me?"

"Well that's one thing you can be lucky about," Nicolae explained. "You won't have to meet him."

"Huh? How'd you mean?"

"The thing is after Demeter was taken away by those intruders, Macavity was furious with our efforts and went on for goodness knows how long about how crap we were and wanting us to double our efforts next time…maybe it was a good thing that you didn't have to listen to him back then."

"Even if I failed to stop them or have to take the blame?"

"Everyone is blame in Macavity's eyes."

The two of them didn't say anything and instead looked through a small window looking out seeing the various members of Macavity's forces passing by now and again. They both shivered as even if they were in a den, the wind still found it's way through the cracks and into the den, making the two toms freeze from the cold.

Adamin pulled over a dirty blanket nearby and wrap it round him to try and keep warm. "Bast it's cold."

"Yeah, though I don't know if Dad's going to last tonight, let alone this winter," Nicolae noted with a hint of worry in his voice.

Adamin, not knowing out Augustus' condition with him being out for two nights, feared the worse. "How bad is he now?"

"Terrible," Nicolae sighed with a shudder, his head drooping sadly. "I've been told to wait until I get the call to come back to him…they say he is having a vision about something with the Jellicles or somewhat like that."

The brown tabby felt sad for Augustus, but then suspiciously looked at Nicolae. He did know that the Jellicles were the tribe of Demeter and Bombalurina and he could only make a small guess that those three toms Bombalurina had come with were from that tribe. "...You sure? Interesting…anything else with him?"

Adamin then thought about it, maybe the tribe was going to pull off a revenge attack on them? Unlikely that they would be attacking the most well known cat in London's entire cat world, but nonetheless he didn't want to feel too sure after what had happened two nights ago.

Nicolae then looked through a hole (that was a makeshift window) and saw a large black tomcat heading towards his den. "Nothing yet…but it looks like we will soon."

The black cat opened the door, which was just a small plank of wood hanging gingerly on, and looked like he had run a mile. "You must come now," He panted.

"Is it my Dad?" Nicolae asked, hoping that the Everlasting cat would give his father a chance to live some more.

The black cat's lips formed into a tight line, an expression that told Nicolae everything he didn't want to hear. "I'm afraid there is nothing more we can do…you must come now if you want to say goodbye to him."

Nicolae didn't respond for a brief moment, as if he was only just drinking it all in, then without warning, he shot off out of the den and headed onwards towards the medical den, the other two toms following right behind him.

XXX

It wasn't long until the three of them arrived at the den in which Augustus had been staying in for some days now and Nicolae was doing his best to hold back his tears, the thought of his father dying in his arms was now something that was about to become no longer a dream, but a reality. Neither of them say any words until they entered the den, only three cats were in that den, a medical cat that was looking over, a small calico tom-kit which Adamin and Nicolae knew as Mungojerrie, a tom that was training in being a thief and for some reason was here rather than learning his education in being a thief. And finally lying there with a blanket draped over him was Augustus.

Without hesitation, Nicolae rushed to the side of his dad, the two of them were a spitting image of each other with them together in the room.

"Will e' be ok?" Mungojerrie asked innocently.

Adamin bit his bottom lip and cast a sad look at the young tom-kit "Come on Mungo, go out and play with the other kits. You are too young for this"

"But I wanna see what's wrong with 'em," Mungo replied looking up at the brown tabby with his big green eyes.

Adamin sighed and shook his head. "No, just go out and get on with that training, don't want to get in trouble from the boss, eh?"

The young calico muttered a disappointed 'ok' and quickly left the den. Once he left, the remaining cats in the room focused on the dying grey tom.

"I'm sorry," The medical cat uttered looking at them. "There's nothing more I can do to help him."

Augustus didn't reply and only breathed in and out slowly and Adamin felt a lump in his throat. From the day he joined Macavity he had know about the elder cat for all these years. He didn't want to know how his dear friend was feeling.

"Dad," Nicolae expressed sadly with tears forming in his eyes.

"The vision…"Augustus suddenly spoke up and at once and others closely looked over him trying to listen what else he had to say. "…There's…a kitten…a tom…Macavity."

Adamin and Nicolae looked at each other trying to figure what Augustus was trying to say, the problem of these riddle like answers Augustus would say would always make them think hard about it.

"What tom?" Asked the black cat asked behind them.

"And Macavity?" Nicolae added.

Augustus let out a loud cough that made the four remaining cats in the room stop breathing for a moment, thinking that he was about to die, but thankfully that didn't happened. "An heir," Augustus replied weakly, his eyes shutting slowly. "M…Macavity's heir…the tom will…bi-coloured, cream and brown…will stop…him…"

"An heir?" Adamin asked in a stunned manner, never expecting this. "Wait…Macavity's heir? He has a son?"

The elder grey longhaired tom let out another cough that sounded like a 'NO!' to them, before his head fell back on the pillow. "Ma…Macavity…will fall."

And with that, Augustus closed his eyes for the last time and Nicolae held his dad's body in his arms, which he slowly started to sob into his father's chest.

Adamin lowered his head and muttered a silent pray before looking at the black tom in the room. "Tell Macavity that Augustus has finally left us," the brown tabby ordered and the black cat nodded and hurried off out off the den to tell the news.

Adamin could only watch sadly as his friend carried on sobbing in grief, the medical cat leaving the den to give them some privacy. But it was what Augustus' last words were that made the brown magical cat think.

An heir? Some cream and brown tom? Overthrow Macavity?

He didn't know for sure at that moment…though from this point however, was only the start of the story.

Well that's the first chapter, and it's a bit shaky as I'm not sure if it's that good. The next will chapter will be set with the Jellicles and is when the story takes off, but I'm curious to know what you think of Adamin and Nicolae as I don't want them to be bad OC's as they will appear later on, older ofc! But until then, review to see what that vision could be!