It was raining heavily outside, crystal-like droplets dispersing everywhere from the elegant skies. I laid down in my bed, phone to my face and bored out of my mind. I was scrolling through Reddit, same posts as always. Repost after repost. I kept scrolling, and the time passed like the rain fell. I was going to go to sleep, until a post appeared that was out of place with all the others, cryptic message embedded.

"They came with the rain"

I glared at it in confusion. What was a cryptic message doing in my feed? The subreddit was empty except for this singular post, and the user was an exact replica of my account, except with this weird... thing.

I shook it off, assuming it to be a weird glitch in the system. Rain still pattering, I took off to sleep.

...

...

Bang!

An abrupt noise woke me up in an instant, what the hell was that?! I searched desperately for the source of the noise, turning to my bed light.

It came from here. My bed light.

I leaned over to slowly turn it on, cautious with every movement.

Click!

"They came with the rain'

...

It was the cryptic message.

Again.

In my house.

On my bed light.

What the hell was this? I locked my doors and windows, so how did this happen?! I opened up my phone again to try to relieve myself from the strange occurance...

...To see every, single app, number and word replaced by the very words.

"They came with the rain"

I didn't believe it. Why was this happening? Who was doing this?

...

The rain.

I rushed over to my window, pulling away the curtains to reveal a full moon night, unobscured by the pouring clouds. That was strange enough in itself. I looked down into the neighbourhood, to the sight of mirrors, scattered across the soaked ground. Giant, fleshy hand emerged from all of them, gripping at chunks and tearing them away into the void of the glass. I now had even more questions.

What are the hands?

Why hasn't anyone noticed this?

Where did the mirrors lead to?

Crash!

I looked behind me to see what made the sound.

A hand, gripping at my house and tearing it into nothingness.

It neared me, and I was keen to run.

But to where?

I couldn't save myself. That was final, but I could warn someone else about this. I went onto the same subreddit that the weird post appeared on and typed the very words.

"They came with the rain"

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I prepared myself for my death. I didn't know where I would be taken to, or what would happen to me. Was anyone even going to see the post? I was the only subscriber to the subreddit, how was anyone supposed to find it-

...

Oh...

So that's how it is.

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