The letter, now in Tulip's hands, went as followed:

Dear occupants of this town;

I have placed this note as a warning, and also as an offer of help. You see, the rain won't stop, in fact, it'll only get worse from here on out. It won't stop until you all are drowned in it. But there is a way out, and I can help you. If you go out into the rain using the umbrella I've provided you, you'll find a wooden cabin. Go in there, and I'll help you.

The note ended abruptly, and it wasn't signed. Kipo frowned at it, troubled. When she looked around at everyone else, they seemed just as worried. Tulip turned the note over, steady it all over closely for any kind of clue.

"What the... where did you find this again?" she asked.

"Just in the basement!" Mira replied. "I don't understand, where did it come from?"

"A cabin in the rain..." Kai mumbled, moving over to the window, and opening the blinds.

"There was that leak," Kipo noted. "Perhaps in came in from there?"

"An entire umbrella?" Mira scoffed. "That leak would have to be huge, and it'd also have to be something we haven't seen before."

"I don't see anything!" Kai told them, turning away from the window just in time for lightening to flash outside lighting up the entire room in a blinding flash. Unfortunately, Mira, Tulip and Kipo looked over just in time to catch this flash right in their eyes.

"Gah!" Mira yelled. "Kai!"

"Sorry, sorry!" Kai quickly realized forward, closing the curtains, but the damage was already done. When Kipo opened her eyes again, most of her vision was black spots and she could feel a headache growing in the front of her mind. "Anyway, I didn't see a cabin."

"You can't see anything in this rain," Tulip pointed out. "Also, I don't remember there ever being a cabin here to begin with."

"There wasn't a leak either, last I saw," Mira added. Neither she or Tulip had finished rubbing out their eyes yet. "And that basement was pretty bare, so I don't see how we could have missed it."

"That's true..." Tulip hummed. "So, we're dealing with a mysterious letter and a cabin that suddenly appeared? Are we dealing with some sort of wizard?"

"A wizard?" Luz repeated, just coming in from the kitchen. She looked around the room, growing confused. "Er, what wizard?"

Tulip passed the letter over, and Luz took it. Six, who Kipo had thought was asleep, peeked over Luz's shoulder to read it, too, and Luz shifted around so she could see better. Kipo watched as they both read through it, their faces gradually shifting into varying shades of frustration.

"It's probably a trap," Luz eventually concluded, and the rest of them were taken aback.

"You... think so?" Tulip asked, and Luz nodded firmly.

"I tried trusting a wizard once, and it turned out that it was just a trap!" Luz told them. She crossed her arms. "I don't trust them."

"...Huh," Mira said. "Isn't Six a kind of wizard, though?"

"..." Luz didn't reply for a while, her eyes wide as she seemed to realize that for the first time. She glanced at Six, who's attention was still on the piece of paper. "Er.... Well, she's more of a witch, right Six?"

Six didn't answer.

"Six?"

Six hummed, and shook her head. "No... one of you should go."

"Really?" Luz asked, frowning. "Six, are you sure...?"

"The letter is correct," Six told them. "This building won't hold you for long. You should send someone capable, but if you stay in here, you're sitting ducks."

"Sitting ducks?" Kai repeated, smirking. "Wouldn't that be a good thing?"

Six sighed, and Kai had the sense to look embarrassed. "Uh... sorry."

Six didn't even look at him. "Miss Kipo, you should go."

"Me?" Kipo repeated. "Why-Oh, because of my abilities."

"They won't protect her from the rain," Mira noted.

"She just has to get to the cabin," Six replied. "It's not far, just up beyond the town, by the shed."

"What?" Mira gave Six a weird look. "How do you know?! There isn't anything back there!"

"Do you know whoever wrote this, Six?" Luz asked, and at the seemingly out-of-place question stilled the conversation. Luz had an odd look on her voice, but Six was unreadable.

"I don't," Six said. "And before you open your mouth, the reason I know where the cabin is, is because I manipulated the shadows around the town and got a good sense of where it was."

Six figured her gaze on Kipo. "It's close. Go quickly."

"Can't she eat first?" Mira asked, and Six's eyes narrowed before she used her head to motion towards the door to the basement. When the others followed her gaze, they gasped. There was water flooding out from underneath it.

"The basement flooded," Tulip said, shocked.

"Already?!" Mira glared at the water, as if it would go back under if she scared it enough. "How?! It hasn't been that long, has it?"

"As the letter says, the rain is only getting worse," Six explained through gritted teeth. "We have even less time before this room fills up. Miss Kipo, go."

"I... okay," Kipo agreed. She was staring at the water like everyone else, a growing worry in the bottom of her stomach. That alone pushed out any reason to argue. "I'll do it."

"Can you make it, though?" Tulip wondered, and Six rolled her eyes.

"You brought up the umbrella, didn't you?" she barked at Mira, startling Lux. Mira nodded quickly. "Good. She can use that. Any more inane arguments."

Six looked at Tulip when she said that, and when she noticed, Tulip glared back, though she shook her head.

"Kipo will be fine," Kai spoke up. "I mean, you have special powers, right? When I had my fire powers, I always felt like I was on top of the world! Sometimes, I literally was, because I could fly, too."

"That's nice," Kipo said, trying to listen. But her mind was on the storm outside. Tulip looked like she'd relaxed, but Kipo knew that the rain wasn't the only thing she should be worried about. There was also the lightning and the thunder... an umbrella wouldn't protect her from that.

But still. As bad as they were, they wouldn't kill her. Not like drowning would. And besides, she was the best person to protect herself. The reasons to go overpowered the reasons not to by a lot, and Kipo picked up the umbrella Mira had put by the side of the downstairs door. Hm... should she take the broken one or the unbroken one...? In any case, the unbroken one can be used like a sword when closed, so Kipo ultimately decided to chose that one.

With that, Kipo turned, and marched towards the door. No one stopped her, though Kipo could see from their faces that they wanted to. She tried to ignore them, and when she got to the door, she gave a little wave and what she hoped was a reassuring grin.

"I'll be fine," she told them, thankfully keeping the tremor out of her voice. "Like Kai said, I'm a superhero!"

"Yeah, she'll be fine," Kai agreed, grinning back at her, and his unwavering confidence relaxed her a little bit. She grinned back, grateful to him. Perhaps after this, she could get to know him better.

"Hurry, Miss Kipo," Six warned her, and Kipo nodded. Yeah, she was right. Kipo gave her a nod, and then opened up the door, taking a deep breath, and then running out into the storm, holding the umbrella high above her.

The rain started beating on her immediately, the rain already making her arm feel heavy. When her feet beat down on the pavement, the puddles splashed around her, and once or twice, Kipo nearly slipped in them, almost dropping her umbrella. Only a few feet from the door, and Kipo was already soaking wet again, and her ankle hurt. However, Kipo only shook her head, and pushed on. Six was right, the shed wasn't to far away, and it wasn't long before Kipo could vaguely make it out in the rain. And past it... the cabin.

So Six really was right. The cabin was here, next to the shed. With it now locked in her sights, Kipo sprinted at it, leaping over the larger puddles and nearly dropping on her face, but she didn't stop. She didn't even hesitate when she was at the door, wrenching the thing open and jumping inside, slamming it shut behind her. Only then did she pause, taking deep breaths of relief and resting her forehead on the log door. Normally, it probably wouldn't be comfortable, but right now, it felt like the softest pillow Kipo could imagine.

"Ah... so you heeded my note, did you?" a voice asked from behind Kipo, startling her. "Smart of you. I don't enjoy this rain anymore more than you do."

Kipo turned around, and immediately, Luz's warning came to mind. The cabin wasn't what she'd expected... the log walls had been painted white, with writing that Kipo couldn't read on it, and other than a black desk on the other side of the room, there was nothing in there. Behind the desk, turned away from Kipo, there sat a man. He didn't seem to be doing anything with his hands, and Kipo didn't see anything to look at in front of him, so she didn't exactly understand what he was supposed to be doing.

The man was covered in shadows, so other than his basic shape, Kipo couldn't make out any other characteristics. Kipo blinked, and tried to squint into the darkness, but her enhanced vision apparently couldn't penetrate the dark there, and no matter how much Kipo tried to make out the man, there was either nothing to see, or he was keeping himself hidden. Kipo frowned. The darkness was... new to her.

"...You said you could help?" Kipo asked when the man didn't continue. "How do we stop it?"

"That's a good question," the man mumbled. "First, it's important to understand where they came from. Do you know why it's raining like this Kipo?"

"..." Kipo frowned, staring at the man. Previously, she had figured that it was natural, but... "Are the bone dragons back?"

"Not quite," the man replied calmly. "There's another thing in this world that can cause storms like this one. Think, what could be powerful enough to cause a storm like this? A god, obviously."

"A god?" Kipo frowned, taken back. A god... she hadn't considered that before. At first, Kipo wasn't inclined to believe him, but, again, the large number of weird things happening in this world raged against that idea.

"Yes, a god," the man replied. "Somehow, this town has angered one of them, and they won't stop until you all are dead. Whatever mistake you made, it might be your last."

"What mistake?!" Kipo cried, incredulous. "What does that mean? We didn't do anything!"

"Hm..." Despite the fact that the man was facing away from her, Kipo could feel him studying her closely. "You... are a stranger to this land, correct?"

Kipo blinked, and then nodded.

"That's it then," the man decided, and Kipo glared at him. "The god in question probably feels like you are encroaching on his territory. They don't usually like newcomers, you see."

"I don't," Kipo huffed, crossing her arms. "It's not our fault we're here, so why would this 'god' blame us? And if they can do all that, why can't they just send us home? And-!"

"Quiet," the man snapped, and it made Kipo pause. It reminded her of Six, somehow. "It's imperious that you really think you can accuse this god of anything. For him, you and your town are mildly annoying ants that he is squishing beneath his foot. I assure you; he isn't paying attention to you at all right now."

Kipo stared at the back of the man's head, somewhat shocked into silence. An ant... they were nothing more that ants to him...

Kipo clenched her fist. She didn't know about the rest of her friends, but for herself, she used to find ant colonies fascinating. Perhaps not as interesting as astrology, but they were fun to read about, and Kipo also liked watching the mutant ants she found outside the burrow.

So, in Kipo's mind, the ant analogy was the stupidest thing she'd ever heard.

"Then help me get his attention," Kipo growled lowly. "You want to stop the rain, and so do I, but I also want to get out of this place as much as that god apparently doesn't make us here. So how do we do that?"

The man seemed to perk up at that, and after a second of seemingly mulling over what Kipo said, he turned around. Dark eyes, darker than the darkness surrounded them, stared back at her, and Kipo nearly took a step back. The eyes blinked at her, and two small pinpricks of light seemed to study her.

"Hm," the man said, studying her. "Yes, that would probably be a good idea. Come closer, and sit down. I know exactly what could help."

"Sit down..." Kipo tore her eyes away from the man, and down to the table. "Huh? But there isn't a chair-."

Kipo cut herself off as she spotted a chair that she was certain hadn't been there before. She blinked, before shaking her head. Magic, right, whatever. She did as the man said, stepping forward, and sitting down in the chair the man had indicated. It was plastic, like the chairs they used in schools, and it pressed up against her back uncomfortably.

"Appeasing this god," the man began, and Kipo huffed at the words. "... will take a shrine, built from components you don't have. They are far away, in the all four corners of the globe."

"Tell me where they are," Kipo insisted. "I'll get them, quickly. And in the meantime, my friends can hide in here-."

"You will?" the man asked, and Kipo blinked. Of course she would... and her friends could take refuge here, it seemed safe enough. But looking into the man's eyes, somehow, Kipo doubted that would be the case. "You're mistaken. That would be the worst way to do this. You think the god won't be able to find his way in here? He'd find us before you could take two steps from the cabin, and drown us before anything else!"

"But they're drowning in the town right now!" Kipo agrued. "We need to get them out of there!"

"And we will!" the man snapped. "After all, they'll be the ones gathering our supplies."