This idea is kinda a combination of 'Night at the Museum' and that one episode of 'Courage the Cowardly Dog' where the paintings come to life. Anyway, hope you all enjoy it! ^-^

The raft continued flowing down the river. The four companions, a kid, a runaway, and two con artists who said they decended from royality, were trying to figure out what their next plan of action was. They were crossing into the next state. Suddenly, the 'King' (that's what everyone called him) got an idea! And that idea was...

*Bonk!*

"Hey! I said knock it off!" Robbie shouted.

"Hey, no yelling in the library," Mikey replied with a smile before hi-fiying his little brother. The raccoon groaned and turned back to the old book he was trying to read.

It was nearly eight at night. The two friends had been there all afternoon and a couple hours after supper. Unfortunately, ever since they had returned to the library, Mikey and his little twin brother, Matt had been throwing puzzle pieces at the back of Robbie's head. Sammi, Matt's twin sister, was there too, but she was actually trying to put together the fifty piece puzzle.

"This would be so much easier if they weren't there," Robbie said, scowling, "Why can't Mom just kick them out?"

"Well, this is a public library," Maddie, who was reading a random magazine, replied, "and you know, if you had just..."

"Oh don't even say it!" Robbie interrupted.

Maddie smirked. It was too good to pass up. "I'm just saying, if you hadn't have waited till the last two weeks of summer to read an assigned book forty two chapters long, maybe you wouldn't have to deal with the Muscle Brothers and the Muscle Sister."

"You don't really have room to talk you know," said Robbie, pushing his glasses up a little, "You didn't read the book until last week!"

"Yeah, but you're the book worm," Maddie retorted, "I figured you would've read the book at the beginning of summer."

"I did."

"Well, what happened?"

"Well..." Robbie thought back to the first week of summer. He had started reading the assigned book, but then his mom told him that the library had just gotten a new adventure book series. Robbie decided it couldn't hurt to read the first book. Or the second. Or even the third.

One month and thirteen books later, Robbie had a new favorite book series, and the assigned reading was in the back of his mind. The rest of July had lemonade monsters, camping trips, swimming in the pool, playing his and Maddie's new favorite video game, going to the latest summer blockbusters, and all the other regular irregular stuff the two friends would do in the summer.

But now it was August, and school was twelve days away, less than two weeks! And he had only read the first chapter, and he hadn't even started the book report. Middle school hadn't even started yet and he was already falling behind!

"I kinda got sidetracked," said Robbie sheepishly. But then he got determined. "But I'm going to finish this book in plenty of time to enjoy the last week of summer. I mean, come on, I'm already at chapter ten. I only need to read thirty two more chapters in five days. Piece of cake!"

*Bonk* Robbie growled.

"Maybe if you can ignore incoming puzzle pieces," said Maddie. Robbie said nothing, he just burried his nose inside the book, trying to stay as focused as possible.

Just then, the pair of twins yawned in unison. "Hey Mikey, I'm sleepy," said Sammi, rubbing her eyes.

"Yeah, can we go home?" Matt asked.

"Yeah, I'm starting to get bored throwing puzzle pieces at losers," said Mikey, "Let's go." The three siblings stood up, and headed for the door.

Robbie sighed. "Finally, maybe I can actually read a little."

"Hey kids," Eileen said, walking up from behind him. Robbie slammed his head down on the desk. "Is he okay?" Eileen asked.

"Yeah, it's just been a rough couple hours since Muscleman's kids kept bugging him," Maddie answered.

"Oh, I'm sorry Robbie," Eileen said as her son lifted his head back up, "But we have to go, sweetie."

"But the library doesn't close until 9," said Robbie.

"Yeah, but I have to leave early to pick up a few things, and no one else is here working," said Eileen, "So I have to lock up."

Robbie pouted. He wanted to at least get to chapter sixteen tonight. Only six more chapters, he could definitely read that in an hour. But he had to do it at the library. If he didn't, he would only get one or two chapters read, if that. There were too many distractions at home. The tv, video games, and Rigby talking about whatever crazy thing he and Mordecai did that night.

"Wait, Mom," said Robbie, getting an idea, "I could close up for you. Just let us stay here another hour. Please?"

"Well," Eileen said, thinking, "I guess it couldn't hurt. But you need to make sure you lock the doors when you leave, and you can't leave the lights on."

"I won't, Mom," insisted Robbie.

"Well, okay then," Eileen replied with a smile. She fished the library keys out of her pocket and handed them to her son. "I want you guys home by 8:20, okay?"

"Okay." Eileen gave Robbie a kiss on the cheek, and then left.

"Okay, now I'll get some reading done," Robbie said. He leaned back in his chair, and opened the book.

"While you're doing that, I'm going to go see if I can find anything else to read," Maddie said, standing up from her chair and grabbing her magazine.

Meanwhile, across the library, there was a cart filled with books that the newest librarian had forgot to put away. There were about twenty books on it, but most of them were on the bottom of the cart, with the exception of a few on the top.

Outside, the few clouds left in the sky had just passed, leaving only a beautiful full moon and a few stray stars in the sky. The light from the bright moon shined through the window of the library at just the right angle, sending a trail of moonlight down onto the library floor. Specifically where the book cart was (what are the odds of that?). The moonlight bounced off of the bookcart, and landed on on book spine, section R bottom row. The title of the book:

Re-animation and Rising Inanimate Objects.

"There has to be a decent mystery book here somewhere," Maddie mumbled as she searched through the shelves, "Or at least a good manga."

"Hey you!" Maddie quickly turned around. Standing right behind her was a man, but he was wearing a ridiculous outfit and a giant top hat. He was also holding a cup of tea.

"What the...?"

"You're late for tea, my dear!" the man said. He giggled and then tossed the cup at her, splashing her with the lukewarm tea.

"Hey!" The man giggled again and ran off. "Get back here!" Maddie shouted. She followed the man until she was in the children's section. There, she saw something she definitely didn't see everyday.

The entire aisle was filled with book characters. A girl with her yorkie dog, a family of bears in clothes, an army of small, orange men with green hair and overalls, a family of bears with clothes, and other various characters.

"Uh, Robbie? You may want to check this out!"

Back at the table, Robbie had been reading when he heard Maddie shout. He called her name but never got a reply. So, he sat his book down and went to look for her.

"Maddie?" Robbie called. 'Where is she?' he thought. Just then, he felt something run into him. He looked down and saw that it was a small dog. "Oh hey little guy, how did you get in here?" he asked, picking up the pup.

Just then, a loud growl was heard. Robbie looked up and saw bigger version of the pup. Same fur color, but with sharper features and sharper fangs. It was then Robbie realized he wasn't holding a normal house dog. He was holding a wolf, more specifically, a wolf's pup.

Slowly, Robbie set down the pup, and then ran for his life. "Help!" he yelled as the wolf chased him. He quickly climbed up a bookshelf, and stood on top of it, right next to a sign that said "Animal Books".

The wolf growled at him, but walked away as soon as it figured out it wouldn't be able to climb the shelf. Robbie let out a sigh of relief. "That was close," he said. The raccoon begin to look around the library. Since he was on top of a high place, he could now see what was happening in the library.

The building was filled with characters, different creatures, and even random words from dictionaries and thesauruses floating around. 'Just another normal night,' Robbie thought sarcastically.

"Robbie!" Robbie looked down, and saw Maddie on the other side of the bookshelf.

"There you are!" Robbie said, before jumping down from the shelf, "Do you know what's going on?"

"I thought you would know!" Maddie replied, "All I know is one minute I'm walking through the library, and the next there's a ton of random book characters in front of me."

"At least you weren't in the wild animals section," mumbled Robbie, "Now, we need to find a way to get all these guys back in their books."

"Well, you have any ideas?"

"...We need to call Skips."

Quickly, the kids headed towards the front desk. They picked up the phone, and quickly dialed the yeti's number.

"Hello?" said a raspy voice.

"Skips?" the kids asked in unison.

"Kids?"

"Yeah, it's us Skips, we need your help," said Robbie.

"We're down at the library, and all the book characters came to life!" Maddie said.

"And other things too, like animals and words. We figured since it probably had something to do with magic, you would know how to fix it. So, do you know what to do, Skips?"

"Hmm. Tell me, does the library have a book called 'Re-animation and Rising Inanimate Objects'?"

"Um, hold on." Robbie quickly woke up the library computer, and typed in the title on the library website. Another screen popped up. "Yeah, here it is, according to the computer it was just returned today."

"I've heard of this before," Skips said, "If I remember my history right, the guy who wrote the book was never taken seriously. So, he made it so whenever moonlight hit the book, it would make whatever things near come to life. Furniture, books, toys and figures, I've even heard of food being brought to life."

"So, how do we stop it?" Maddie asked.

"If you find the book, it should have a reverse spell in it," replied Skips, "But remember, if you have to say a spell, you have to do it... Beepbeepbeepbeepbeep."

"Huh?" Both kids looked and saw a mouse chewing on the cord.

"Hey! Stop that!" Robbie shouted, shooing the mouse away. The rodent ran, but the phone line was already cut. "Great."

"Let's just find that book," said Maddie, "I'm sure we can figure out the rest once we read the spell."

"Okay," said Robbie, "Skips said the book was called Re-animation or something, so it'll be in nonfiction, R."

"Great, let's go." The kids quickly started to run towards the non-fiction section.

Unfortunately, they didn't count on about a hundred storybook characters being in front of them. Princesses, pirates, animals (both normal and human like), knights, kids, small monsters, super heroes, storybook heroes and villains, famous characters in history, mythical creatures, extinct creatures, and that was just the tip of the iceberg!

With the library only being a medium sized building, and a crowd of storybook characters being on the same floor, it was almost impossible to get through.

"What do we do now?" Robbie asked.

Just then, out of the corner of her eyes, Maddie saw something sparkly fly past her. She looked closer at it and saw a pair of wings and a girl's body. "Tinker Bell!" she shouted happily.

"You know, this isn't a time to get nostalgic about old characters," Robbie said.

"Dude, I know what I'm doing, haven't you ever read 'Peter Pan?'" Maddie asked. She didn't even bother waiting for an answer. "Hey Tink! You were always my favorite character!"

The pixie smiled. "Think you can help us out a little?" Maddie asked. The fairy didn't answer, she instead flew over to the kids, and flew in a circle above the kids. Pixie dust was sprinkled on their heads, and after a few seconds, they began to float upwards.

"Oh yeah, great idea Maddie!" Robbie said, smiling at her.

"Hm hm, and they said birds like me couldn't fly," Maddie said with a smirk.

"Okay, let's go find that book!" Robbie said. With their new flight abilities, the kids were quickly able to fly over the fictional and non fictional crowd. In only a few minutes, they were at Section R of the nonfiction area of the library.

They landed gracefully in front of the bookshelf. "Okay, Ra, Re, read, really, re-animate! Here it is!" The raccoon pulled out the old, red covered book. He opened it up and skimmed through the yellow pages of the book.

"Just a quick suggestion," said a purple cat who appeared out nowhere, "check page twenty five." Robbie turned to the twenty-fifth page.

"How to deal with a confused newly-conscious thing?" Robbie read, a little confused.

"Or was that fifty two? I suppose my mind is slipping a little," the cat said with a grin. Robbie scowled at him, and the cat dissappeared.

"Dumb cat," the raccoon mumbled. He continued flipping the pages.

"There it is!" Maddie shouted, pointing at the title of a page.

Robbie started reading out loud. "'Reversal. If one wishes to reverse a re-animation or giving life to something they don't want alive, they must only wait until the next day and all magic will return to the book.' We can't wait that long! Do you know how much damage these guys could do in a night?"

A shout was heard, and both kids ducked, nearly dodging a sword that stabbed through the back wall. "Eh, probably a lot," replied Maddie.

Robbie continued reading. "'If the spellcaster cannot wait until the following day, then they need only to say these words.' Here's the spell!"

"Well, say it!" said Maddie.

Robbie cleared his throat. "Animous, creaturous, humonous, objectus. Return to stone, magic retreat, frozen and dead for the next century. Completous!"

The characters didn't move. But after a few seconds, nothing happened, so they continued doing whatever they were doing.

"I don't get it. Did you say it right?" Maddie asked.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did," replied Robbie, "I guess we're missing the extra thing Skips is talking about."

Maddie thought for a moment. "Didn't he say something about the moon?"

"Yeah, he said something about the moonlight hitting the book, and then the things by it came to life," said Robbie, "So, we just have to find the moonlight, and read the spell."

"There it is!" Maddie pointed. In a window above the 'Transportation' section, the moon was shining brightly. It was almost like a small spotlight shining down on the bookshelf.

Robbie quickly climbed up the 'R' bookcase, and began jumping across to each case, dodging whatever objects flew at him. "Look out, Robbie!" Maddie shouted.

Robbie looked in front of him, and saw a Wilbur Bros. plane, and a pterodactyl flying right towards him. Letting out a yell, the young raccoon quickly flattened himself, and narrowly missed the flying dangers.

As soon as they passed, Robbie continued jumping until he landed on the bookcase in front of the window. Robbie was about to start saying the spell when he felt the bookcase start to shake. He looked down and saw a lumberjack chopping at the wooden case.

"Hurry!" Maddie shouted.

"Okay, okay!" Robbie opened the book. In the moonlight, the words of the reversal spell began to glow blue. Robbie began to read. "Animous, creaturous, humonous, objectus. Return to stone, magic retreat, frozen and dead for the next century. Completous!"

Every book character, animal, object from a book, and floating word in the library froze and glowed a bright blue. In a flash of light and a cloud of blue sparkles, they all disappeared.

Both kids sighed in relief, and Robbie climbed down from the bookcase.

"Nice job, dude," Maddie complimented.

"Thanks," Robbie replied with a smile. The kids looked around at the damage, but surprisingly, there was none! Even the bookcase that had been chopped at was magically repaired. "I guess the book really did reverse everything."

"Which is a good thing for us," said Maddie, "now we don't have to clean up anything, and we won't get in trouble. And, I guess you can get back to your book."

Before Robbie could answer, he let out a loud yawn. "Uh, I think I'm just ready to go home. I can read tomorrow, even if it will take longer with more chapters to read."

Maddie yawned too. "Yeah, I guess we should call it a night." So, after going around the library and turning off all the lights, Robbie locked the door and the two friends walked home together.

()()()()()()()()()

"So, how was being at the library alone go?" Eileen asked, as she tucked in her son, "did you get as much reading done as you wanted to?"

"Not exactly," Robbie said, placing his glasses on the bedside table, "I read a couple chapters, but then I kinda had to deal with something. Don't worry, it was nothing big. And don't worry, I'll get my reading done." 'Or at least try to,' the young raccoon thought.

"What book are you reading anyway?" Eileen asked.

"It's on my desk if you want to look at it," Robbie said. Curious, Eileen walked over to her son's desk and picked up the book. "Oh hey, I remember reading this story when I was in school. It was one of the better ones we had to read."

"Really?"

"Well, it was better than 'Pride and Prejudice'," replied Eileen, "Hey, maybe we could read this together tomorrow. Does that sound good?"

Eileen hadn't read to Robbie since he was in kindergarden. Even though he could easily read the book on his own, Robbie smiled at the idea of he and his mom reading it together. Besides, he would be less likely to get distracted or bothered if they read together.

"Yeah, that sounds cool, thanks Mom," Robbie said smiling.

Eileen smiled back. "Goodnight Robbie."

"Night Mom." Eileen gave him a hug, and then left the room. As Robbie laid down, he couldn't help but feel happy about reading with his mom the next day. He really did like reading, just as long as there were no wild wolves waiting to attack him, planes to dodge, or weird cheshire cats.

"Oh come on now, cheshires aren't that bad, are we?"

Robbie quickly turned the light back on. But nothing was there, not a single trace of cat. "Hm hm," he said with a scowl, "Dumb cat." He turned off the lights.

Hope this turned out as well as I thought. This chapter would've been up yesterday, but I woke up late, so I didn't have time to finish the chapter. The next chapter will be one about Maddie and Margaret. I actually thought of that chapter first (thanks to a suggestion from a reviewer who I will mention at the beginning of the next chapter), and I would've wrote it first. But I didn't want two Maddie/normal chapters in a row, so I thought of a Robbie/'crazy thing happens' chapter to go in between. After the Maddie chapter, they'll start school, but don't worry, the story won't start getting dull just because they'll be in school.

Special thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions, as well as everyone who reviewed (40 reviews! I didn't think I would reach 25 reviews!). I have the next few chapters planned out, but I will definitely consider some of the suggestions for future chapters. Hope you all liked this chapter, please review and I'll see you in the next one!

P.S: Whoever guesses the name of the book Robbie was reading, you get 'Free cake! Free cake!' (I just finished reading it in my English class, it actually was pretty good).