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."

Week - 534 Possessed: Part Eight by ellbot1998

Description: Rubia sank her fangs into its other side.  And then it got angry.

Week - 535 Stooping Low: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: A heavy rainfall was drenching the forests. I barely winced from it. Faith was walking beneath my wing, trying to hide from the rain, however...

Week - 536 Stooping Low: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: "Who is Faith?" She lowered her voice. "I mean, it's unusual. She has to be a Creator's Age Xweetok for some reason, right?"

Week - 537 Stooping Low: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: A current of rushing sand suddenly appeared and pulled me into it. One leg after the others, I was sucked into the pit-sand trap.

Week - 552 How To Recover From Missing Issue #550 by ellbot1998

Description: You aren't necessarily a worse writer than anyone who got published in Issue #550.

Week - 564 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: Some of my dreams are the future, but all the rest are nonsense.

Week - 565 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: I fastened the pin of my cape tighter than I had before. I was out all day, desperately hoping that I would spy her taking refuge within a forest nook, or gloomily wandering around the County outskirts...

Week - 566 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: "Imagine. I found it completely unguarded at the top of Cloudpoint..."

Week - 567 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: The three of us were a family: we seldom got impatient with each other. Melded together by the occasional hardship, we had no need for family squabbles...

Week - 568 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: Faith blinked. "That is a very strange story," she said.

Week - 569 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: "But what if I'm not this Faith you know?"

Week - 570 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: "Things will be alright someday," she murmured. And then I looked at her and noticed that she was devastated. Her eyes showed it, even in the torch-light.

Week - 571 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Eight by ellbot1998

Description: I felt like I'd been sitting on a sopping wet, miserable, uncomfortable cloud, staring down at the world I knew. Staring and wishing.

Week - 572 Cinnamon and Vinegar: Part Nine by ellbot1998

Description: "If I can't have power or at least freedom, I'll have revenge!" Amadeus screamed...

Week - 582 We All Fall Down: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: A lone Hunter strolled through the woods, wide-eyed, light-footed and all ears.

Week - 583 We All Fall Down: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: "Mortal, prepare to face my wrath," the black-winged orange Blumaroo before me commanded. I tried to step backward...

Week - 584 We All Fall Down: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: Something about Cerulean that day seemed... off.

Week - 585 We All Fall Down: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: "...Is he afraid of her? Put those in the pan over there, dear; I'll cook them in a minute."

Week - 586 We All Fall Down: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: For a moment, she half-opened her mouth. She closed it, though, and looked away. "I'm just not used to you and Cerulean fighting..."

Week - 587 We All Fall Down: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: "I... remember..." I murmured, remembering my past. "I've... met her..."

Week - 588 We All Fall Down: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: Siana was carrying me by the scruff of my neck after a good shot from her stun blaster...

Week - 589 We All Fall Down: Part Eight by ellbot1998

Description: "DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR!"

Week - 623 One Way: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: "Keep fighting! She can't win!" I yell, dodging a spiky ball of shadow that hisses past my shoulder. Our only chance is to keep moving...

Week - 624 One Way: Part Two by ellbot1998

Description: They weren't home.

Week - 625 One Way: Part Three by ellbot1998

Description: "The mind is made to want a soul if it doesn't have one..."

Week - 626 One Way: Part Four by ellbot1998

Description: Cerulean fought with perfect rhythm. He stalled, ducked and swerved until his enemies let their guards down.

Week - 627 One Way: Part Five by ellbot1998

Description: I'd started piecing some of it together. The Chomby was the head, of course, and she hoarded gold and servants in her gold castle in this glass forest.

Week - 628 One Way: Part Six by ellbot1998

Description: When I woke up, Faith was sitting cross-legged right front of me. My mind was thick with sleep. But when my eyes met her face, I yelped and sat up.

Week - 629 One Way: Part Seven by ellbot1998

Description: "What does it take," I murmured, "for a golden roof to collapse?"

Week - 630 One Way: Part Eight by ellbot1998

Description: "You must really know your way around this place," Amadeus remarked, while we were still walking in uninhabited hallways. I shrugged. "I've only been here for most of my life."

Week - 631 One Way: Part Nine by ellbot1998

Description: "I... don't believe it..." Dromiay stuttered. "She wasn't in the book!"

Week - 632 One Way: Part Ten by ellbot1998

Description: Benjai started to laugh again. And then, "You want me to trust you? I barely know your name!"

Week - 633 One Way: Part Eleven by ellbot1998

Description: 'You've learned well enough that there are certain things people ought not to do.'

Week - 650 650 Eternities by ellbot1998

Description: "Dromiay," Benjai hisses. I freeze. The spell ends. I choose to run.

Week - 678 The Case for More NT Item Prizes by ellbot1998

Description: Many Neopians enjoy reading the Times as well as, or instead of, creating for it.

Week - 684 The Door Closes: Part One by ellbot1998

Description: He hums his way down the slope, to the tune of a song I faintly remember. Though his voice has been absent from my life for many years, it still sounds unforgettable and familiar. Art by ellbot1998