Week - 418 Top Ten Ways to Celebrate Neopets' Birthday by ellbot1998

Description: You don't need a huge party to have fun on Neopets' birthday!

Week - 433 The Issue #336 Mystery by ellbot1998

Description: He never points to the left... Or does he?

Week - 442 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: "Some higher force wants us to have this new, better place!" he always claimed. "Why should we try to escape it?"

Week - 443 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: "Prisoners #3410 and #3411 to transmogrification unit B-64."

Week - 444 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: "Each individual I heal always has the same tale of awakening, but never the same tale of escape."

Week - 445 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: "Not now; we'd probably be caught. I think we'd better follow them."

Week - 446 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: "Where do you think YOU'RE going?"

Week - 447 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: As Axle punched a button on the last device, I heard a shout of, "Redd, is that you?"

Week - 448 From a Rock to a Hard Place: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: 'So you finally caught on to me.'

Week - 467 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: "And the next Xweetok to receive my magic will grow wings," she echoed.

Week - 468 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: "Doesn't it ever stop raining?" I inquired.

Week - 469 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: As soon as he prepared to strike, however, there was a sound like thunder and a flash...

Week - 470 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: "Rubia has been harboring a Xweetok ever since shortly after last meeting. She claims that it came to her door first."

Week - 471 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: "Poor thing, maybe we should go home. I've been so inconsiderate about your thick fur. It seems to get soggy fast."

Week - 472 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: "Rubia, another of my dreams came true."

Week - 473 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: Rubia. I had to know if she'd take me in again or not. Tor told me she would, but he didn't know how cold she'd acted to me.

Week - 474 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Eight by ellbot1998

Description: It was impending destiny.

Week - 475 Hot Herb Tea and a Happy Ending: Part Nine by ellbot1998

Description: "For the sake of my friends, I am fearless..." Torich read aloud as he scratched the inscription in.

Week - 497 Tyrants and Heroes: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: None of this meant that all Xweetoks were bad. I was a Xweetok.

Week - 498 Tyrants and Heroes: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: "We were about to go raid Chix's shuttle and rescue our lost ones," Bronco confessed. I did a mental face-palm.

Week - 499 Tyrants and Heroes: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: It never mattered to me whether I was a true hero or not.

Week - 500 Tyrants and Heroes: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: "Rubia! I'm so glad you're still alive!"

Week - 501 Tyrants and Heroes: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: A series of asterisks appeared on screen. The Usul hit a large key.  "Access granted."

Week - 502 Tyrants and Heroes: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: They saw me not as a Xweetok anymore, but as a hero.

Week - 507 Torch in the Darkness: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: I stopped short as I realized I had ended up in, well, who-knows-where. I was in a golden forest. Art by ellbot1998

Week - 508 Torch in the Darkness: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: It'll be worth it, I told myself and started putting one foot in front of the other on the bough. The snack gradually inched closer. I was almost there... Art by ellbot1998

Week - 509 Torch in the Darkness: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: We traveled in relative silence. When I explained to Faith about having to run from Xweetoks, she nodded quietly, not acting very surprised at all. Art by ellbot1998

Week - 510 Torch in the Darkness: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: The den's scene was exactly as Cerulean and I had found it in the first place. All footprints had been smoothed over by the rain. He was gone, and so was Rachroth. Art by ellbot1998

Week - 511 Torch in the Darkness: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: I gasped. Their homes were in trees? I thought that he would just take me to a nest or something. Art by ellbot1998

Week - 512 Torch in the Darkness: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: My thoughts were interrupted by a raspy "Help... me..." from behind me. Art by ellbot1998

Week - 513 Torch in the Darkness: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: "What are you saying, Azra? Nobody's ever just stumbled across Shadow! This place is practically cut off from the rest of the world!" Art by ellbot1998

Week - 514 Torch in the Darkness: Part Eight by ellbot1998

Description: She didn't deserve to die at the hands of the most infamous creature known to any forester! Art by ellbot1998

Week - 515 Torch in the Darkness: Part Nine by ellbot1998

Description: "I didn't create Val. I had always known him. We have always been contrasting where we placed our values and our dreams. If fortune had come over him instead of me, this would be a different world." Art by ellbot1998

Week - 521 What Makes a Neopet Special by ellbot1998

Description: Some people have plenty of Neopoints, but they have a Neopet or two who they leave as a red, yellow, blue or green creature of a common species.

Week - 526 A Game of Chess... Or Not by ellbot1998

Description: "You and Callie aren't quite a couple of kids. She's seventeen and you're more mature than she is sometimes."

Week - 527 Possessed: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: Rubia barged in, panting. "I was flipping through some magical books, and... Faith, you've been possessed."

Week - 528 Possessed: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: "Cerulean, I was studying before we started this, and I wanted to ask you: When you and Faith were on your journey, were any spells cast on her?"

Week - 529 Possessed: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: That's right, I recalled. I dream the future. It's been so long that I forgot.

Week - 530 Possessed: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: The return to the land of my childhood was bringing out the person that I had left behind along with it; the person used to ice and snow. Slush and sleet.

Week - 531 Possessed: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: "Rubia! Faith's gone!"

Week - 532 Possessed: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: "Chix?" a green-striped Hunter asked as he opened the door. "Chix, where... Ah..." He furrowed his brow in confusion...

Week - 533 Possessed: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: "Well, there's another long day of Faith-chasing ahead of us."