//------------------------------// // La Fin du Sphinx // Story: Quete // by Comrade Bagel Muffin //------------------------------// Escutcheon's mind became more and more fogged as the potion's magic worked on his body. In minutes the two of them were panting like mutts in the summer heat. His mind started to fade as his body began moving on it's own accord. He grunted as he jerked his hips out. The metal chastity belt preventing the desired outcome. After hours, minutes, or days, it was impossible to tell since the sky never got dark, his need to satisfy his desire, became the only thing that he could think of. He didn't even notice when the other ponies came and jeered at the two of them, or when they left. After an in determinate amount of time the ropes around his front hooves came of and he feel to the ground. He started shifting his body on the ground, trying in vain to get some kind of relief. His tail was untied, and flopped down as he panted twisting his hips on the ground. He looked over at the filly that had been tied up next to him as he shifted his hips. Her tail was untied but was still up at full attention. "I think they're ready, bring them to me." He whined as they floated him off of the ground. He was floated with the filly up to the top of the pyramid. "Well look at you little ponies." The sphinx chuckled as they were floated up to the top of the stairs. "Plum, the colts have really enjoyed your blanket do you want it back?" "Make-make it stop." Plum panted, desperation in her voice. "Make what stop little filly." The sphinx asked as a stallion sized paw patted her, causing the filly to moan, her eyes rolled back at the first physical contact in a week. "Look at this." The sphinx purred as she moved her paw near to Escutcheon. He tried to touch it, but was held out of range of it. She laughed. "Look at you little colt you were going to stop me?" "P-pl-please." Escutcheon whined. "Beg me." He was dropped to the ground. "Please." Escutcheon whined his front knees going down. The ponies around him joined the sphinx in laughing at his desperation. "Please I beg you please." "Oh fine." the sphinx ran a single digit down his back causing him to mimic Plum's earlier response. His hind legs gave out beneath him as he fell completely to the floor. "Aren't you an adorable little colt, but I think you should go back to the pole." Escutcheon's ears flopped. "Please no." "Hm? Well I suppose you're almost ready." She looked over at the ponies that had brought him up there. "Throw him down stairs. When I'm done with Plum I'll have you brought up here, and finish your breaking." A trap door opened in the middle of the room, and the unicorn floated him down. Four shackles rose to meet him locking around his legs. He was pulled down into the dungeon the chains went taunt keeping him from moving around. The trap door above him was shut, throwing his whole world into darkness. He started whimpering again as his legs were pulled taunt. He panted still under the potions effect. After nearly half an hour his eyes had dilated to the dark enough for him to see something in the dark. He started whining again wishing that what ever it was would bump him. He needed something anything. His ears perked up at the high pitch squeak. After a few seconds he heard the flapping of wings. Something brushed across his side sending as shiver across his whole body. A moment later something fell and hit his head. "Ow." He winced. Looking down he recognized the thing that lay at his front hooves. The bag that had all of his stuff. He craned his neck trying to open his bag after a few failed attempts, and a quickly growing neck cramp, he finally managed to open his saddle bag. Everything was filled with a soft blue light. His ears perked up at the soft high pitch squeaking. Above his head was an entire colony of bats. "Dusk?" The thought of the happy bat pony filled his mind. The potion's effects fading away. "Dusk. I shouldn't have left. I shouldn't have left." One of the bats flies down and lands on him. "Ow." Escutcheon yelped as the bat bit his ear. Several more flew down, landing on his back. He started thrashing around in a panic as they bit him more and more started waking up, and flying down on him. He thrashed his head back and forth and side to side, trying to keep the vampire bats off of him. He felt something fly off of his horn, and the faint sound of metal hitting stone was barely audible over the sound of squeaking and leathery wings flapping in the cave. "Stop." His golden magic enveloped him as he threw up a shield around him. He caught his breath as thin red streams trickled down his face and sides. He grit his teeth and focused on the chains. He knew that he had to be quick. In an instant his golden shield went down. The bats came at him again, biting his sides, legs, and face. He focused his magic trying to think through the pain. A golden bolt shot from his horn destroying one of the links in the chain that held his front right leg. With his free leg he started batting away at the bats. Trying to keep them away from him as he repeated the task on the chain holding his front left leg in place. After his second leg was free he put his shield back up knocking away the dozens of vampire bats. Escutcheon collapsed to the floor, dozens off new red streaks running down his white body. He wiped his matted golden mane out of eyes. "I never should have left," he said as he pulled sapphire out of his saddle bag. "NO!" Escutcheon's ears perked up immediately. Plum's cry echoed off of the walls and startled the bats causing them to fly around in a panic. Escutcheon glared up at the ceiling. He felt his whole body heated up with righteous indignation. His shield went down, he turned and blasted the other two chains, and threw his saddle bags on his back. He looked around, the soft glow of the sapphire was now illuminating the entire room. He found an old stairway leading back up to the top of the temple. He followed it to the top, and teleported to the top and with one buck the stone flew up. He walked out as all of the vampire bats flying out as he walked out on to the top of the temple. "What well aren't you just an eager little colt?" He ignored the sphinx instead his eyes locked onto Plum. She didn't look like the filly that had lead him to the town. She was curled up her tail tucked between her hind legs which were squeezed together. Tears streaked down her empty eyes. He blanket lay torn to shreds in front of her several colts were around her snickering at a job well done. "What you're going to ignore me? Maybe you should go back to the pole for a few months for being such a naughty colt." Escutcheon Glared at her. "This is enough." He looked around his eyes soon finding the source of all of the trouble. A large pink pearl, twice the size of a full grown stallion. In an instant he teleported to the pearl. "No!" Before he could cancel the spell he was hit hard by the sphinx. He was slapped across the room. He got back up in time to see the sphinx slamming into him, and hitting him into one of the pillars that was holding up the gazebo. He fell to the floor. His whole world was spinning, he looked up Plums broken empty eyes looked back at him. "You're not going to hurt anymore ponies ever again." He fired golden bolts at the sphinx his indignation tripling the power of the spells. He charged at the crystal. His horn touched the crystal he felt the sphinx tackling into him as he cast the spell the force threw him into one of the other four pillars, as the pearl turned to dust he fell limp to the stone floor of the temple.