Riddle Me This

by Shakespearicles

First published

What happened while Prince Hisan was held captive by the Sphinx, before he was rescued by Somnambula?

There once was a prince named Hisan.
And a sphinx that wanted his son.
A big deal gets made.
A big cat gets laid.
And that just about sums up this one.

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Long ago, the village that would one day bear the name of Somnambula fell prey to an evil Sphinx who demanded most of their crops. Like her fellow villagers, Somnambula didn't have much. But she used what she had to keep others from giving up hope. The son of the pharaoh, Prince Hisan, was so moved by her compassion, that he decreed no pony would go hungry again. But when Hisan stood up to the Sphinx, the beast captured him, telling the pharaoh the only way to get Hisan back was to solve her riddle. The pharaoh put out the word across the village, calling on anypony that would volunteer to try to solve the sphinx's riddle.

Meanwhile...


"So what's your problem!?" Prince Hisan shouted, held firm in the clutches of the beast's giant paw. The sphinx ignored the relatively tiny pony as she flew back to her temple lair. "What do you want with all of our crops, anyway? Aren't cats obligate carnivores?"

"Don't tempt me, Food!" she growled back.

"Or else what? You'll eat me!? That's a real original threat! You can start by eating my ass!"

"You are a bold one," she said, equally irritated and impressed. "Do you not fear death?"

"What do I have to lose?" he said.

"You are a prince. You have much to lose."

"I'm the prince of a desert!" he said, nodding toward the landscape they were flying over. "Ooh, look at all this sand I get to rule some day!" he sarcassed. They arrived at the massive stone temple to which she had piloted. "So the pharaoh comes up with the brilliant idea of building this pyramid as a monument to his engineering genius. Like, yeah Dad, way to prove that you know how to pile a bunch of rocks up in a way that will last a really long time."

The sphinx tied him securely to an obelisk inside the pyramid.

"And now you're roosting in it," he said. "And what was the deal with demanding that somepony solve your riddle? What was that about?"

"Be silent!" she snapped.

"Geez, your just as moody as my cat, Bast," he said. "I guess that makes sense, what with you being a giant cat."

"I'm not a cat! I'm a sphinx!" her voice boomed.

"Sooo... a giant cat."

"I'm a sphinx! A magical creature! What part of that are you not understanding!?"

"Well clearly the core concept."

"I have fucking wings!"

"Whoopty-fucking-do. I have wings too. But I'm still a pony. You don't see me making up words to feel self-important."

"You mean like pegasus?" she said with utter snark. Hisan smirked.

"So how about Catasus?" he suggested. She growled. "Or how about just Cactus? Since you're being a prick."

"Silence!"

"A big one. A giant one like a... uh... CATzilla!" Sphinx bared her teeth at him. "Oh no! There goes Cairo! Go go Catzilla!" She hissed at him. "Sheesh. More like Cuntzilla! You don't scare me. All we have is sand and pony-made mountains. And our agriculture! And you're taking that away now. So yeah. Not a whole lot left to lose. So even if I die by your paw, I will still be remembered as the great prince that stood up to the evil sphinx!"

She turned away from him, walking over to her horde of crops that she had gotten from the village.

"You never did answer me. What do you want with all our crops?" She said nothing, instead only grabbing massive paw-fulls of different crops and wolfing them down. Particularly the carts full of cocoa beans. Whenever he saw a mare eating that much chocolate and being this moody it was usually because it was- "That time of the season, eh?"

"YES!" she bellowed.

"... Oh." Hisan blanched. He knew how his little Bast would get when she went into heat. Standoffish, hungry and inconsolable until she was able to get a mate. "So... uh, do you want some Moon Tea, or something? I hear that helps." She huffed and rolled her eyes.

"Magical. Creature," she repeated in frustration. "Your herbal remedies would have no effect on me. I need a mate."

"So you ransacked our destitute village and holed up in our pyramid to what, nest?"

"To attract a mate! And there are none left. I am the last of my kind," she said mournfully.

"So all you need to do is get laid and you'll leave?"

"To put it incredibly simply, yes," she admitted.

"Well shit, why didn't you say so!? I could end that drought for you," he said. "I don't mean to brag, but all the fillies say that I'm the River Jordan of sex."

"The what?"

"River Jordan. The Zebra? The greatest Buckball player who ever lived! The only earth pony that could fly on the court!" Sphinx shrugged. "My point is that I'm really good!"

"For a pony," she mocked. "I am quite literally a whole other animal. What could you possibly hope to accomplish as a lover to a being that is the size of a three story building?" Hisan knew that if he could strike a bargain with her, and get her to leave, they would probably rename the village after him. But it would take all of his skill with the only weapon he had.

His dick.

"Untie me and I'll show you," he said with a provoking expression. She pretended to not want to take him up on the offer. But he knew that universal expression she was wearing. It was one of horny desperation. He had her right where he wanted her. She turned back to face him and untied him.

"Fine! You're welcome to try and fail with your puny pony pecker!" she said. "But make any attempt to escape and I'll raze the entire village to the sand!"

"I want your word," Hisan said. "Promise me that if I sate your heat, you leave my kingdom forever!" he demanded, knowing the binding power of a promise made by a magical creature. She smirked.

"I will leave your kingdom forever, IF you can successfully breed me," she said.

"Breed you!? Impossible! We're not even the same species! I will not fall for your ruse!" he said.

"Magical creature," she reminded him. "It is not an entirely biological process. I swear to you that with your seed it is possible. But it is by no means easy."

"You swear that it's possible?"

"I do."

"And if I succeed, you promise you'll leave my kingdom forever?" he asked. She knew what he was getting at.

"I promise," she said with all seriousness. It was a promise thrice given. And a promise made was a debt unpaid, and magical creatures have their own stern code. Their word was everything.

"Deal," he said, sealing his fate along with his village. She grinned. The deals where she had everything to gain were the ones she liked the best to make. She turned in place and lifted her tail.

"At your readiness, my prince," she said. He looked up at the big pussy's big pussy. It was many times his own height above the ground. He flapped his wings and flew up to survey it. Her genitals were taller than he was. He could feel the heat of her arousal radiating off of her swollen lips. The entire situation was so utterly alien that he was having a hard time getting himself a hard time.

"Pussy's pussy," he muttered to himself. The architecture was a little different at first glance, but the basic structure was still the same. He tried to pretend that he was simply a tiny stallion, with a giant mare.

He hovered closer and reached out with his hooves. The sphinx winced at the first contact. It had been some time since she had been touched there. He tried his best to manipulate her lips in a meaningful way, holding on to try to get himself in position to start rutting her. He wasn't the strongest flyer, and it was hard to make any real progress as he humped fruitlessly against her outer lips while trying to still fly.

"Yawn," she said mockingly. He backed off and flew around to hover in front of her.

"Hey! At least give me a fair chance!"

"I made no such promise," she said.

"What's the matter? Afraid you'll lose? Are you just a big scaredy cat!?" he mocked. She bristled.

"Fine! What do you want?" she asked, humoring him.

"Lie down on your back," he said. She rolled her eyes. It was easy enough. And she was still confident that he would do no better.

"Ha! Is that all!? It will take more than that!" She laid down on the floor and rolled over onto her back, letting her hind legs fall open for him. "As you were."

Hisan flew back down the length of her body to her crotch, landing on the tuft of damp fur just above her vagina. It was a steep slope down in front of him and the lack of traction made it precarious. He crouched down and reached into her folds with his hooves seeking out her weak spot.

Her clitoris wasn't hard to find. It was as big as his head. First with his hooves, and then as much of his body as he could, he rubbed himself against her massive love button. He didn't need to worry about lubrication. Everything was slick with her wetness. And now that included him. The massive creature trembled under him. He knew he was doing something right. He continued to massage her clit using every technique he could recall. Her tail swished about on the floor below them. Her belly began to rumble steadily. He made that pussy purr with a stroke of his hoof.

He gave her clit a light spank with his hoof. Her back arched involuntarily, sending him careening forward. His legs slipped out from under him and he slid down along her slit until he stopped just above her anus. He stood up and turned around to face her. His legs planted firmly at the rim of her vagina. He stretched his hooves and reached up over his head to keep playing with her clit. The entire length of his body was nestled into her pussy lips.

Her wetness coated him entirely. It was impossible to not smell it. And now her taste was unavoidably on his lips. His penis didn't know any different, becoming very hard in front of him. He kept playing with her clit while he humped as hard as he could at her yawning cavern. Her leg began to twitch reflexively. He went faster with her hooves.

The sphinx let out a thunderous yowl as she came. Hisan was launched from her with a torrent of her squirting climax striking him in the chest.

"Mhmm, that was purrfect," she mused. "I can see why fillies say that you are the River Jogging."

"Jordan," he said, wiping her juice out of his eyes.

"I hope you aren't done yet," she said.

"No ma'am. I'm seeing this through to the end!" He climbed back up and resumed thrusting his hips into her enormous vagina. She giggled.

"You think too highly of your swimmers if you think they will be successful all the way from there," she said. He stopped and felt a pang of panic. He knew she was right. He would need every advantage he could get if was to have any hope of success.

He reached into her with his hooves and stretched her open. He didn't need much more clearance. He steeled himself and took a deep breath before pushing his head inside.

She was a bit surprised. She honestly didn't think him brazen enough to rise to her bait. But in he went. Or tried to, at least. His hooves struggled to find purchase inside her slick tunnel. And his hind legs stuck out of her pussy and kicked fruitlessly at the empty air.

"Here," she said, "let me lend you a paw." She brought her paw down between her thighs and pressed it against his back legs. He felt everything move around him as she suddenly shoved him deeper inside. He felt his legs engulfed in the same sweltering warmth as the rest of him. With all four of his hooves, he worked to shimmy bit by bit to get in as far as he could.

She felt him moving and squirming inside her. He was by no means as big as a sphinx's penis. But the way he was desperately thrashing about inside her was driving her wild. Especially on the heels of her previous orgasm. Her pussy spasmed and clenched around him, nearly crushing the life out of him as a rush of fresh juices gushed past him and dripped out of her.

If it wasn't slippery enough before, it certainly was now. It was all he could do to just hump against the insides of her tunnel and hope against all hope that his semen was a better swimmer than he was and might make it to her womb.

She rolled from side to side on the floor as she felt him humping inside her. It was pleasurable, for sure, but in her heat-addled state, she wanted more. Her paw reached out and grabbed one of the obelisks in the room and broke it from its base. She took the oblong stone and pushed it inside of her like a makeshift dildo.

Hisan felt a rush of fresh terror as the cylinder of stone came in behind him, pushing him much, MUCH deeper. His hooves in front of him were all that kept him from slamming face-first into her final barrier. The pillar behind him kept pushing until he was nearly flattened against her cervix. But at the last moment she backed off and slid it back out. In the pitch darkness, he felt the pressure changing inside her tunnel as it moved in and out of her as a steady piston behind him.

In front of him, he felt around her cervix until he found the relatively tiny opening. Relative to the sphinx, of course. To him, it was just the right size. Like a big, fleshy wall with a glory hole. He lined up his thick cock and pushed it through. She lurched at the alien feeling of her cervix being penetrated. His penis wasn't nearly large enough to hurt her, but it was certainly a new sensation. But it was lost into the mix of her fucking herself silly with the stone pillar.

Her rapid heartbeat thundered around him. He knew he didn't have much more time before the paltry amount of air he had inside her with him would run out. He clutched her at lining and fucked her cervical opening just as fast as he could. The obelisk behind him flew in and out of her at fatal speeds. She only needed to go a few feet deeper to crush him. He felt his balls tighten and he slammed it home one final time, hilting into her cervix as he came, spurting load after panicked load into her womb. His cock pulsed and throbbed, stretching at her small opening just enough to make her feel it. The rest of her pussy came again and she shoved the pillar deep inside her again for a final feeling of fullness.

The end of the obelisk pressed him against her cervix. He felt himself starting to black out. With his last clear thought, he grabbed a nook of the pillar. When she finally pulled it back out, she pulled him along with it. His flared tip pulled free of her cervix with a muffled 'plop'.

The pillar fell to the stone floor with a deafening boom and Hisan dripped free of her vagina and slid down onto the floor along with the rest of her wet mess. He gasped and wheezed for the fresh oxygen as he laid in her puddle. He looked back at the massive vagina behind him. The sphinx it was attached to was purring with contentment. He had done it. He only hoped that it would be enough. He got to his hooves and started to quietly creep away. A giant paw landed on his tail.

"Where do you think you're going?" she asked in a tone that could only be described as sultry. "Did you think you were finished?" Hisan gulped. It was going to be a long night.


Hisan woke up the next day tied to the first obelisk, amid a boiling lake of, what he imagined was, an agonizing death.

"Good morning," she greeted. She seemed... cheerful? "I'm feeling much better today. Thanks to you. It would seem that you succeeded, much to my surprise, and delight."

"So that means that you'll leave this kingdom forever?" he asked.

"As agreed."

"Then let me go!"

"I never agreed to that," she said with a smug grin.

And it was in that moment that Hisan knew that he'd fucked up. He had never bargained for his own release.

"You're coming with me, lover-boy," she said with hungry eyes. "Nopony has solved my riddle. So you will remain my captive!" He turned pale. He had saved the village, but at the cost of his own sacrifice. She turned and positioned herself over the obelisk that he was tied to. He was aimed at a different hole. "I think this time you shall be visiting a far darker place!" But just when it seemed all hope was lost for him, a pony flew into the temple.

When the pharaoh had called for aid, nopony would volunteer to save the prince. Nopony but Somnambula. The sphinx huffed and stepped forward to meet the rescue attempt. As obliged, she gave her the riddle.

"I shine brightest in the dark. I am there, but can not be seen. To have me cost you nothing. To be without me costs you everything."

As Somnambula thought about the hardship she and her fellow villagers had experienced, she instantly knew the answer. "Hope!" she shouted.

The sphinx was so enraged it seemed as though she might still refuse to release the prince. So Somnambula asked for one more challenge. But if she accomplished it, the sphinx would leave from the kingdom forever. The sphinx quickly agreed, (having already planned to leave) asking only that Somnambula walk to the prince, across a deep chasm, blindfolded. Further, the sphinx had cast a powerful spell that prevented Somnambula from flying. But Somnambula never lost hope. She knew she'd need to make a leap of faith to save the prince. Guided by the sound of the prince's voice, she easily made it across.

The sphinx was enraged to lose her captive lover. But she was bound to her word. She let the prince go free and left the kingdom forever, gaining some small consolation from his tiny passenger inside her.

Somnambula led Prince Hisan out of the temple to go back to the village. She kept her distance from him. She thought it was just the sphinx in the temple, but now she could tell that it was him. She held her nose at the smell coming off of him.

"By Anubis's scrotum, you need a bath!" But Prince Hisan knew that he could bathe all he liked, they simply didn't make water hot enough for the kind of dirty he felt.