( this is the follow up to a one shot ill hopefully be writing soon, but basically the tl;dr of that is that Aurum went back to the home of his old pride, only to find them destroyed and taken over by a hyena pack they had been at war with, and then some of the hyenas found and attacked him )

He had thought that going to visit his old pride would be relatively stress free. He could still remember the way back to their sprawling abandoned city quite clearly, and he had thought that, even if he hadn't ever missed them, he could have some sense of closure. He hadn't been particularly worried about any outright hostility either, seeing as he knew that Judith was gone, and no longer spreading poison about him amongst the denizens of the lion pride. However, he had never considered that, perhaps, the pride would no longer exist. He had figured that, even without he and the rest of his family to lead, someone else would step up, and make sure that things were handled. It had only seemed natural to him, especially after so much time of living in Tanglewood. Unfortunately, when he had stepped over the usual border of his former home, and found that he could scent no sort of scent line in the air from anytime recently, he had known that something was very wrong. His suspicions had only been further confirmed as he walked through empty streets, one blue eye focused on the tall abandoned buildings all around, calling out the names of what few old pridemates he could actually remember. There had been no response, and he had been left with the chilling realization that there was... nothing. Nothing left, of the place where he had been born.

That alone would've been enough to leave the angel slightly unnerved once he made it back to Tanglewood, but he hadn't gotten the chance to leave the territory peacefully. Just as he had been heading back towards the edge of the city, he had heard frantic pawsteps – many of them. Far too many. It was then that the hyenas had revealed themselves all glistening sharp teeth and wild, furious eyes. They had given him no time to explain, as they had been on him before he knew it, chomping and scratching at anything and everything that they could reach. They were overwhelming, but he had still managed to fight them off, having both size and power on his side. There might have been several more of them than there were of him, but none of them had fire elementals. All it had taken was a moment of strong concentration, and then one of them had been up in flames, howling and shrieking wildly as they stumbled back into the others. The group of hyenas had dispersed quickly after that, either trying to snuff out the flames that had enveloped the other, or desperately trying to get away. Either way, it gave Aurum the chance to escape, the shaderunner taking off into the sky despite the heaviness that gripped him.

Making it back to Tanglewood had been no easy task, considering the bites and scratches that littered his body, making every flap of his wings a rather extreme achievement. He had made it, however, even through the pain, and soon enough he found himself collapsing on the border, breath coming out in heavy pants. His wings flopped down limply on either side of him, similarly injured just as the rest of him was. He could only hope that none of the hyenas had rabies, even though he had seen none of the usual telltale signs of the disease. Grunting in pain, the angel managed to push himself up for long enough to shout, his chest aching with the action, "Vigenere! Delilah! A-Anybody! I need... I need help...!" After he had completed his call, the shaderunner practically collapsed back down onto the soft ground, his chin resting against the earth below as he waited for anyone to come.