"Did...did you hear that?" Alel was startled by the sudden voice.
Link heard it and he knew who the voice belonged to. But one thing that he didn't understand was the "curse" that was mentioned.
Then the voice spoke again:
"The black fire is the spawn of the curse. If the curse isn't broken soon, the volcano will explode and you Hero, will perish along with it."
"Then how do we break the curse?" Alel asked.
"Destroy its source. Agnis. Dancer of the Burning Darkness. But first..."
In that instant, the immense swirling vortex of black fire that billowed out from statues were separated by a sudden blast of normal fire which shaped itself into an avian figure. The fire soon dispersed and completely disappeared revealing a statue that looked familiar to Link but yet was very different.
"This statue...it reminds me of those Owl Statues that you came across before, Link. But this one...it's not in the shape of an Owl...it looks more like..."
"A phoenix." The voice finished Alel's deduction.
The statue, like the others Link came across in the past, had a hole in its center but on its wings Link spotted something interesting but he knew exactly what it was. The symbol of the Fire Element.
"Link. You know what to do."
And he did. Without skipping a beat, he drew his Dominion Rod. The very same rod Link used to reach the City in the Sky and fired its sphere of light into the hole at the statue's center.
The statue came to life immediately. Its body glowed a bright red light that illuminated the entire area as it spread out its wings and let out a loud cry. Then suddenly, the phoenix faced Link, opened its beak and unleashed a large stream of fire right at Link's Dominion Rod, engulfing it in fire though even with Link still holding the Rod, the fire didn't burn his hand. But what the fire did do was transform the Dominion Rod completely. The Dominion Rod was gone, the phoenix's' flames changed it into different rod. A rod of bright red and orange with painted carvings of flames etched into the rod. The top of the rod was similar to the Dominion Rod except for its protrusions to be in the shape of streams of fire.
"It's the Fire Rod!"