Once Harry stepped past the rubber door, the yellow glow which flickered dissappeared, and the room was left dark. As Harry closed the door behind him he felt the sword he had placed in the door appear back into its scabbard at his side. Harry panned the dark room. The only light that was given was a beam of wavy light casting down upon a pedastol in the center of the room, right in front of Harry.

Harry walked towards the light. A small item placed on the pedastol came into focus. The item was a ring, a gold ring with a lightning bolt embedded on around it. The lightning bolt disappeared, and appeared, like lightning would in the Muggle World. Harry picked up the ring and looked at it, rotating it around.

"This ring must be my guard, the 'Lightning Guard'." Harry hummed to himself, "Well. I guess it'll do." Harry slipped the ring on his middle finger on his wand hand.

The ring started to pulsate a yellow glow as it settled on his finger. The lightning bolt started to station itself, then it exited the confined area of the ring and shot straight up above Harry's head. The lightning bolt spun in circles and started to form the image of a giant bird: A Pheonix! Harry stared at the Lightning Pheonix (a giant bird made of pure electricity) and the Pheonix stared back.

As it flapped it's wings lightning bolts shot out randomly. It's tail feathers waved behind it. The Pheonix lowered itself to stand on the pedastol and it's lightning wings folded against it's body. It lowered its head to get a better look at Harry. Harry soon stood fact-to-face with the Pheonix.

A heavy thunderous voice rang through Harry's head, "A boy?"

Harry concluded to himself that the voice was that of the Pheonix. He answered the Pheonix with a gulp, "Uhm, yes.. sir. My name is Harry Potter."

"I know who you are, Harry Potter." the voice said, "My last master was strong and much older than you. Why can a boy, Harry Potter, enter the Lightning Room and put on the Lightning Guard without being DEAD?"

Harry, although unsure, replied to the Pheonix "I have the sword, Pheonix. I am your new master."

The Pheonix lifted it's head spreading it's wing, and let out a loud screech, "A boy will NEVER be my master!"

Harry's eyes narrowed to the Pheonix, "Tough Luck! I didn't choose to be your master. I didn't choose for my family to die, and for me to live with the Dursley's, and for Voldemort to... well. Things just HAPPEN. For what reason - No One Knows!"

The room became quiet. The Pheonix folded its wings at its side, and gazed at Harry yet again. "I have heard of your encounters with Voldemort, Harry Potter. If it was destined for us to be one, then I shall not complain. It is destiny, Harry Potter, which makes things happen. Only it knows. Whatever it has in store for us, whether fate wants us, we cannot change that."

"Thank you." Harry said, "Now will you help me?"

The Pheonix nodded its head. "I shall, Harry Potter." Then as the Pheonix changed back into a lightning bolt and disappeared into Harry's ring, the song Harry had heard before he entered the room echoed throughout the room. The darkness of the room changed to light.

Harry still stood in the room, but now he could that it was giagantic, decorated with tapestries of storms and the Lightning Pheonix. The Pheonix's voice went through Harry's head again, "Rejoin the others, Harry Potter. You will return here again."

Harry nodded and turned to the door which swung open as Harry closed in on it. He exited the room to stand between Cecil and Tsutsami as the door closed behind him. "Well?" Tsutsami asked.

Harry raised his hand to show Tsutsami and Cecil the ring, "It's done. Now, let's find Elora."

"No need to, Harry." came the echoed voice of Elora, they turned around to see Elora appearing from a cyclone of fire in front of them. "I know what we must do now."

Continued: Chapter 16 - Air, Ho!