December 14th
"Look" Noila said and pointed up at the sky. Sesu looked up, it was all clear and filled with stars. Even though it was mid day they could clearly see the stars as if it was night. "Have you ever seen anything like that?" she asked, Sesu shook his head.
"Do you think mom and dad can see the same stars?" Noila asked, Sesu looked at her, he didn't want to answer that.
"Ok kids, I think she is ready" Winphur yelled from the hill. He had been working at the helicopter all night and most of the day. Creteus came to watch as well.
It didn't look like a helicopter anymore, nothing like it. Sesu didn't know what it looked like, and he was scared that it actually would fly, cause then he had to be in it. But on the other hand, they couldn't stay here, in the middle of Storm Peaks.
Winphur pressed a few buttons and after a few tries the machine started to cough like an old dwarf who had been smoking all his life. Slowly it lifted from the air and everyone was holding their breath. It was shaking a lot and then…
With a loud crash it hit the ground. Smoke filled the air and Winphur came coughing out of it.
"No good" he coughed, "She is dead, a fine bird she was" Sesu looked at him, not sure what to think.
"What now?" Noila asked, afraid of the answer.
"We have to find another way" Winphur smiled. "Let me think…" he started to walk around with his head wrinkled together in thoughts. Creteus started to look at the scrap pile, he didn't know what any of it was, flying machines was a new thing to him.
"Creteus?" asked Noila while slowly approaching him. He looked at her and smiled. "Why are you here?" she asked.
"Ah" he smiled, "I'm the stone keeper of Storm Peaks. A long time ago I was put here to look out for the peaks; I was with my brothers, they too where stone keepers. But a war started, and black iron dwarfs came from the ground in big machines and attacked us. They wanted the peaks, the home of the Titans. Me and my brothers fought strongly, but in the end we couldn't hold them back. They took down some of the peaks, and the titans flied to Ulduar, the ancient city. I'm the only one left here"
"I'm so sorry" Noila said.
"It's all right… it happened a very long time ago" Creteus said and put down the scrap.
"I GOT IT!" Winphur suddenly yelled. He ran to them, happy as a child with a finger pointed up in the air. "We fly!" he smiled.
"Oh do we now?" Sesu said, "And how are we suppose to do that?" Winphur smiled and whistled with two fingers in his mouth.
"On him" he smiled and pointed up in the air. A small shadow on the sky moved towards them, at first it was hard to see it, but then it became bigger and bigger. Sesu started to get an idea of what it was, and he was right. A few minutes later a giant gryphon landed next to them, dressed in green plate armor.
"He is big enough to carry all three of us" Winphur said, "And he is fast like the lightning, he has saved my life quite a few times"
"He is yours?" Sesu asked. Winphur nodded and smiled proudly.
Sesu wanted to ask why he didn't call him a long time ago, but decided not to. Winphur was becoming more and more odd in Sesu's eyes.
"We fly tomorrow, it's getting dark" Winphur said. Sesu accepted that idea. Him and Noila curled up in Creteus' vest while looking at the stars. For a second Sesu actually didn't want to go home. He wanted to stay, because he wasn't afraid anymore.