Rains of Torment

There wasn't a person alive today that had not seen a rainy day. Might not sound so profound when you think about it, but for this world, it's a terrifying thing. It would be more of a shocking thing to say there was no one alive that had seen a full sunny day and for that night to be dry and calm as well. Yes, there were days when it wouldn't rain all day, but the rains always came back during the night on those days. Water is just always falling from the sky and no one could stop it. The people of the world didn't want to believe that the storms would just keep coming day after day until the world itself started to become just a bit more blue.

All of the desserts quickly grew into quicksand and sinkholes, then into lakes and seas that quickly swept the nearby cities away. All the mountains began to be much whiter and scary. Avalanches in the much higher altitudes started causing whole forests and buildings to be wiped off the map. Then the frozen lakes started flooding everywhere. Some floods started in the rivers, then the rivers would just grow farther past their banks and just keep going. Most of the lower cities everywhere were now underwater, a majority of the old roads were long lost and gone. Smaller cities were all but vanishing within weeks of the rains. Lower elevations of anything became seas of debris and muddy flowing water. Any vehicle that did not float were abandoned by the thousands. Every single one of the active volcanoes started cracking and breaking from all the cold water flowing into them and trying to drown them out, which caused massive melting rock spikes to slowly rise into the sky. Boats were the prize for a long while. The rich or the sneaky thought they would rule the seas, never needing to see the ever sneaking land. Within a few years, most of the boats were gone from people attacking one another over what was on them, but most of them were lost to the sea from the waves and crashing into buildings and debris from the floods. Air flight was thought to be a way out, but then came the lighting and the winds. Smaller planes could rarely outfly the storms sometimes, but most were gone before they were even a few yards off the soaking earth. Larger taller cities tried to build dams or levees to make newer rivers for the water.

They failed

As the years went by, people just got used to the sounds of the rains and thunder. Cities and towns started cropping back up in some places. Some became known as the trader towns and would float on the waters to and from all the other stationary places. A few of these would venture out onto the deeper waters and the tiny bits of land to find whatever they could to live or to help the massive walled-off cities.

Walls were built for these. Not just the normal walls that were washed away within a few months of The Rains, these walls were built to not only last the forever downpour, but to make power from the water. The outer walls were first built like the old dam walls to try to make power. These worked only for the smaller towns. The bigger cities had to do other things to keep the living wall of water away. Superheating the rain from the roof to make steam power or waterwheels from the rushing rides. Sometimes the much bigger cities would sometimes have wind turbines, but they didn't last too long from the lighting. In the middle of every city was built a Light House. This colossal structure helped house most of the civilians, storage of their precious resources, battery banks for the power from all the different generators, clean water tanks, and The Heart. The Heart was nothing more than millions of lighting catchers for the storms to be turned into power for one soul purpose that all the scientists left needed.

To stop the rains from coming.