Hi! What's up, my reviewers? It took a little while for the reviews to come, but then they started coming in a lot faster. Thanks very much! Oh, and just so you all know, the Danny Phantom movie "Reign Storm" will air on July 30 at 8:00 PM!

Now let's move to Chapter 13!

The librarian opened a pair of doors on a higher floor. In the back of the room was a fireplace.

"Here it is," she said as everyone walked inside. She added, "I doubt this fireplace was used throughout the entire twentieth century. It might still work, though."

Danny said, "We'll see." He walked to the fireplace and looked up to try and clean out the bottom. After a few seconds, a bunch of ash fell on him. He brushed it off and said, "Okay."

He then walked over to a desk with a few books on it. He picked them up and threw them into the fireplace.

The librarian looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"

"What did you think we were gonna burn? Our coats?"

"Young man, you can't burn books."

Lancer walked towards him and agreed, "No, Mr. Fenton, absolutely not!"

Danny turned to the both of them, "Do you want to freeze to death?"

There was silence. The two of them obviously couldn't come up with a good enough answer.

Valerie said, "I'll go look for some more."

Tucker added, "I'll go too." He followed her with a sly grin.

Lancer said, "I'll go with them."

Danny asked the librarian, "Alright, do you have a cafeteria or a lunch room anywhere in here?"

She pointed down the hall, "All we have is an employees' lounge with a few vending machines."

"It'll have to do," answered Danny as he left the room. Everyone else followed.

Sure enough, when they reached the lounge, they saw a few vending machines which held candy, potato chips, soda, and other small food items.

Paulina asked, "And how do we get the food out? We can't have enough money for all of it."

Danny answered, "I think I can handle this." Then he walked over to the side of the machine. Without anyone seeing him, he phased his arm through the machines and the snacks started falling into the chute where people got them.

Everyone started taking them out. When they were done, they set what they had on a table.

Sam said, "You know, we aren't going to last very long on M&M's and potato chips and occasional soda."

Danny answered, "Well, it's better than nothing. Come on, let's try and get a fire going."

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Back down in the main room where everyone had originally stayed at, Tucker, Valerie, and Lancer were all looking for more books to burn.

Both Valerie and Lancer were looking at one book. Lancer picked it up and pointed to it, "No, Miss Gray. We cannot burn William Shakespeare. He was the greatest playwright of the sixteenth century."

Valerie answered, "Mr. Lancer, Shakespeare was a guy who wrote depressing sad plays and who died on the same day of the year in which he was born."

"His plays were not sad and depressing."

"But he did die on the same day of the year he was born."

From on the ground, Tucker interrupted, "Um, excuse me, guys? Hey, I found a whole selection on tax law that we can burn."

Valerie nearly jumped at this, "Oooh, good. I hate taxes. It's been hard to pay 'em in my apartment."

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Sometime later, Maddie and Jazz were now driving south in Fredrick's car.

Jazz stared at the floor of the car as her mind drifted off.

Maddie turned to her, "Jazz, what's the matter, sweetie?"

"I'm worried about Dad, Uncle Fredrick, and Danny. What if they don't make it?"

"Oh, don't worry honey." She rubbed her daughter's hair gently, "I know they'll all make it out of this okay."

Jazz sighed, "I hope so." She started to think, I think Danny was about to tell us he was a ghost before he hung up. Maybe I should tell Mom just in case…No, no, I can't do that. Not until I'm absolutely sure that he's gone.

Jazz asked her mother, "Mom, do you think maybe we should drive a little more west so we'd reach Mexico?"

"Jazz, the border's been closed. We'll settle with Florida."

"Well, we could at least try Texas."

From on the radio, a woman was saying, "After hours of uncertainty, traffic is now moving smoothly from the United States into Mexico. This is only possible because the president was able to negotiate a deal to forgive all Latin-American debt in exchange for opening the border."

Jazz raised an eyebrow at Maddie.

Maddie chuckled, and then said, "So like I said, let's head for Mexico!"

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Late that night, more people were now in the main room of the library, looking for books to burn.

Sam was taking books off the shelves with Paulina. It was hard to tell which of the two of them despised this more. Lancer had insisted on them doing this together though.

Sam muttered, "I can't believe I'm stuck here with you."

"Well, I can't say I enjoy this either, Manson."

"Look, as long as we're here, could you try not to act so shallow so we can get along a little bit?"

"Since when do you tell me what to do, you Goth freak!"

From across the room, Danny yelled, "Cut it out, Paulina! We don't have time for this. Like Sam said, we should probably try and get along."

Sam smiled as Danny walked up to the room with the fireplace.

Paulina rolled her eyes, "Loser."

"I heard that!" shouted Sam, "Don't call him a loser!"

"Oooh, sticking up for your boyfriend, aren't you?"

"He's not my boyfr…" Sam suddenly gasped and held her leg.

Paulina sighed, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing," said Sam as she took her hand of her leg. She said, "I just cut my leg the other day."

Upstairs, Danny pushed a cart of books into the room with the fireplace, where they had now been able to get a decent fire going. Tucker was the only other one in there. He was working on his PDA. He had managed to work the radio part of it a little bit.

Danny asked him, "Did you get a signal, Tuck?"

Tucker nodded, "Yeah, for only a minute."

"And?"

There was static coming from the PDA. Tucker turned it off and answered, "Man, I can't believe this. This storm is everywhere. It's hit the entire Northern Hemisphere. Europe is buried under, like, fifteen feet of snow, and they said it's gonna get just as bad over here. Hey, I don't think your dad and uncle are gonna make it."

Danny threw a couple books on the fire and said, "No, they'll make it."

Tucker sighed and looked at the ground.

Danny repeated, "They'll make it." But inside, Danny wasn't sure. He knew his dad wasn't the most reliable, even though Jack had beaten Vlad Plasmius when Maddie and Jazz were in the weapons vault and the portal was about to explode a few weeks ago. Besides, things might be a little better with Fredrick along.

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Speaking of them, around the morning hour later that night, Jack was still driving them north in the RV in the unrelenting blizzard.

The radio was on. Fredrick turned to a station where a man was saying, "The white house has ordered the following National Disaster alert for all northern states: Continued exposure to the approaching storm is deadly. Remain indoors and take all measures to stay warm, burning any fuel sources possible until the storm is over. Roads are impassable across the state of New York and remain that way as far south as Pennsylvania."

Fredrick looked in the back of the RV and asked Steve, "Where are we?"

Steve looked at his navigator and answered, "Looks to me like we're…just north of Philadelphia."

Fredrick turned back to the road. Jack asked, "About how longer until New York?"

"We got a ways to go yet."

Just then, the Fenton RV stumbled, and then began to lose control.

"Look out!" shouted Fredrick, but the RV crashed into a snowbank.

"Everybody okay?" asked Fredrick.

Everyone answered, "Yeah, we're fine."

Jack put the RV in reverse and tried to get out of the snowbank, but it wouldn't budge. It was stuck in the snow. Jack stared at the steering wheel and said, "Sorry, Fredrick."

Fredrick gave his brother a forgiving glance and said, "Unpack the snowshoes. We're gonna have to walk from here."

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In another part of New York that morning, the people who had foolishly left the library had been walking in the southern direction for about a day, and were now resting under a large bridge. They had made a fire in a barrel and were now warming up around it. Others were sleeping in blankets.

One person said, "We've only made it to Brooklyn. Maybe we should just turn back."

Another person answered, "To where? Half the whole city's frozen under water. There's really nothing to go back to."

Dash sighed and turned to Kwan, "I don't know why I'm saying this, but maybe we should've stayed in the library like Fenton said."

Kwan answered, "Yeah, I think so."

The police officer walked towards them and said, "Okay, guys. Let's get moving." Everyone got up and started to leave. A few people were still lying on the ground.

The officer bent down and nudged them on their arms, "Wake up." But they didn't budge.

And more casualties arise. Driving for Fredrick and the crew are out of the question, and there's still a long way to go. Danny and the gang are finding resources to survive the cold, so their hopes aren't dashed. And now it looks like maybe Danny doesn't like Paulina quite as much anymore! But is it too early to tell? Wait until Chapter 14!