Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny

by BlueSun52

Games and Proposals

It was early in the morning and Hawke had been training Sparrow for a few weeks now. It wasn’t as harsh or intense as Hawke claimed it to be but it was still a challenge for Sparrow as he had to control his newly gifted powers that Discord had given him and how to maintain it during a fight. So far he was able to to use his power for a certain amount of time as each time he would use it, he only had about fifteen minutes to maintain it and it wouldn’t be able to use it again until fifteen minutes later.

They both were in a middle of a clear, plain field where they have been sparring with one another. Twilight, Spike and the crusaders were over by a hill and watching from afar.

“Alright, you’re ready yet,” Hawke asked having his staff in his hand.

“Yeah, I think so,” Sparrow replied. “So what are we doing now?”

“Weapons combat,” Hawke replied. “Just pull out any weapon you want and we’ll get started. And don’t worry about holding anything back, I’ll be fine.”

“Okay, if you say so,” Sparrow said and held up his hand. In one instant, his hand flared up with sparks of lightning coming out it and a sword appeared out of it

Sparrow held his sword in a inside position with both hands and Hawke held his staff with his left hand. Almost immediately, Hawke fired of small bolts of energy at Sparrow as he was spinning his staff around. Sparrow rushed in and dodged the small bolts as he was running straight towards Hawke. After passing the last of the bolts, he spun around and tried to make a strike at Hawke only to be blocked by his staff. In a flash, Sparrow disappeared and reappeared behind Hawke and attempted to kick him in the back. Hawke, however, teleported himself away from Sparrow.

Sparrow barrel rolled on the ground and got back up quickly. He looked around his surroundings for Hawke but didn’t see any traces of him. All he could see was where the others were watching from and the trees. He scratched his head as he was puzzled of where Hawke was.

“HE’S ABOVE YOU!” Sweetie Belle cried out.

Sparrow’s eyes widen and he looked up to see Hawke right above him with a small of blue energy in his hand. Hawke threw the ball at Sparrow and Sparrow quickly jumped out of the way. He landed on his stomach with the small energy explosion going off behind him and accidentally dropped his sword. He crawled towards it hoping to get to it in time but the moment he grabbed it, Hawke stepped on the blade and prevented Sparrow from lifting it up. Sparrow looked up to see Hawke with a smug smile on his face.

“Give up?” Hawke asked, mockingly.

Sparrow returned the smile with his own. “Not yet.” Focusing his energy, he caused the blade to electrify thus shocking Hawke in the most comical way possible. After he was shocked, Hawke stood there for a moment as the steam appeared all around him with his hair sticking out in several places. Sparrow couldn’t help but snicker as his brother looked ridiculous with the way his hair was and the others laughed from on top of the hill.

Hawke shook his head and his hair was back to normal. He looked back down to Sparrow who now had a worried expression on him. Hawke once again had a smug expression on him and his hand electrified with blue energy.

Sparrow gulped. “Is it to late to-”

Before Sparrow could finished, Hawke shocked him with his own powers. After a few seconds of comical shocking, Sparrow laid there on the ground with a groan while his body was steaming with smoke.

“Well, I guess we can call it quits for now,” Hawke suggested. “Unless you want to go again?”

Sparrow replied with a slight groan.

“I thought so.”

Hawke made his staff disappeared and walked over to where the others were. He found himself a spot next to Twilight and laid down the ground with his hands over the back of his head and his eyes closed. Sweetie Belle and the other crusaders ran over to were Sparrow was and she carried a large box of first aid kit. They sat over to where he was and flipped him over to his back.

“Alright girls, time to get our cutie marks in first aid treatment,” Scootaloo said.

“What kind of cutie mark would that look like?” Applebloom asked. “Like a red cross or something?”

“Maybe it might be something to do with being a nurse or even a doctor,” Sweetie Belle guessed.

They continued to discuss over their possible cutie marks as Sparrow continued to groan in pain.

Twilight raised an eyebrow at Hawke as she glared down on him. “Don’t you think that was a little to mean, Hawke?” she asked.

“Don’t worry about it,” Hawke replied. “He’s tougher than he looks and he’s in capable hands.”

“I don’t think the girls are capable of helping him right now since they’re more concern with what cutie marks they’re hoping to get,” Twilight pointed out.

“I’m sure they’ll get to it eventually,” Hawke waved.

Twilight sighed. “You’ve got be the lazies stallion I’ve ever met in my life,” she commented.

“You know you love it.”

“No, I don’t.”

“Well, at least you love me…...Right?”

Twilight was tapping her chin as she was thinking on the answer.

“Y-You do love me, right?” Hawke asked again as he was getting worried and sat up.

A sly smile appeared Twilight. “Of course I do,” she cooed and kissed Hawke on the lips.

Hawke embrace the kiss and held onto Twilight with his arms as they both enjoyed the warm embrace with one another. Spike rubbed the back of his head and sat up on his feet.

“I think I’ll help Sparrow out while you guys are busy,” Spike said.

He ran over to the others as Twilight and Hawke were oblivious to what Spike said. After a moment of kissing, they stopped and laid down on the ground with Hawke laying on his back and Twilight laying her head on his shoulder.

“I think it’s sweet that you’re teaching your brother how to use magic but do you really think you should be teaching him offensive spells?” Twilight asked.

“He has to learn it eventually and there are going to be times that I won’t be here to help,” Hawke explained. “So he’ll be more than ready for anything that comes up.”

“You’re probably right.”

There was then silence between as they both looked up into the clear, blue sky. In the back of Hawke’s mind, it was excited for Equestria games as it was next week and his proposal plans were going well. He was a tad nervous as well but he had enough common sense to know that it was just cold feet and this was something he really wanted to happen. Anxiety was also eating at him as he couldn’t wait to propose to her and to see the smile on her when he shows her the ring.

‘I guess it wouldn’t hurt to give her a little hint,’ Hawke thought to himself. “Hey Twily, there was something I wanted to tell you.” There was a moment of silence and he became puzzled by it. “Twily?”

He looked at Twilight to see that she was asleep on his shoulder. He chuckled at the sight of his sleeping beauty. ‘It can wait,’ he thought.

At the Crystal Empire, everypony was excited for the Equestria games to begin and were getting ready for it to begin. They were hanging up decorations, preparing the stadium for the athletes and having all the stalls set up for tourist and Equestria Game fans. The train from Ponyville had arrived and was dropping off its passengers. Rainbow Dash came flying out with an excited expression on her with the other athletes from Ponyville right behind her.

“Ah, yeah! This is going to be awesome,” she declared. “Is everypony ready for this?”

All the other athletes let out cheers.

“Now that’s what I wanna hear! Let’s hurry up and get ready.”

Coming out of another tram was Twilight, Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie.

“This is going to be so fun!” Pinkie declared. “Eating all of those sweet treats, playing all of the games around and winning those prizes.”

“What about the game itself?” Sparrow asked.

“Oh yeah, that too.”

“I’ve no doubt that Ponyville will win all those glorious medals,” Rarity said. She turned around back to the train. “Hawke darling, thank you and your brother for carrying our luggage.”

Hawke and Sparrow came stumbling out of the train with many of the suitcases in their hands while Hawke had a few he was able to levitate with his magic. “It’s no problem, Rarity,” he said, difficulty. “But did you really have to have so much suitcases though?”

“Darling, there is no such things as being too prepared when it comes to being this beautiful,” Rarity replied as she struck a pose.

Hawke rolled his eyes.

“If you want me to, I can carry my case,” Twilight offered.

“No, it’s okay, I can handle it,” Hawke said, giving a peck on her cheek. “Beside, I think Sparrow holding it for you.”

“I….can’t…move!” Sparrow said as his legs were wobbling from the weight he was being crushed by it. His legs gave out and he fell to the ground with the suitcases crashing down on top of him. He let out a groan from under them.

“Oh my gosh! Are you okay?” Pinkie asked after removing the suitcase on top of Sparrow’s head.

“Help, I’m getting crushed by the second,” Sparrow pleaded.

Pinkie pulled Sparrow out from under the pile of suitcases and he brushed off the dust on him.

Welcoming them at the station was Cadence with a few guard ponies beside her. “Hello everypony, I’m so glad that you could all make it here,” she greeted them. “Captain, can you have a couple of your stallions carry their luggage?”

“Of course your, majesty.”

A few of the guards went over to them and started picking up the suitcases from the ground and grabbed the ones off of Hawke; who was relieved to no longer carry them.

“I hope that all will enjoy as much as I do,” Cadence said and leaned over to Twilight. “But not as much as you're going to enjoy it, Twilight.” She then gave her a wink. Twilight had a confused look on her and Hawke couldn’t help but smile. “Oh, I almost forgot. I need you to come with me back at the castle. We need to do a couple of things before the games get started.”

“Of course, Cadence. I’ll be more than happy to help,” Twilight said and walked along with Cadence.

“Ambassador Hawke, the princess had askme to escort you to your room,” a guards had said.

“You got it,” Hawke replied. “I’ll see you girls later. Sparrow, want to tag along?”

Sparrow shrugged. “Sure, why not?”

The two brother walked with the guards and headed straight towards an unknown destination.

All of a sudden, Pinkie’s body started to shudder.

“Pinkie, are ya alright?” Applejack concerndly asked.

“My Pinkie Sense is going crazy again!” Pinkie replied. “I’m feeling the dozy again.”

“Wait, ya mean like that time when Twilight was having a hard time believing that ya had a Pinkie Sense?”

“Yeah, but this time it’s even more dozier than last time. It’s so big, I can’t feel the back of my ears this time.”

“Good heavens, what could it be?” Rarity asked. “It’s nothing bad is it?”

“I don’t know but from the way its shifting, it’s pointing towards Hawke!” Pinkie said.

“Hawke? What’s he have to do with it?”

“I don’t know but I’m about to find out,” Pinkie said and placed a small black mustache on her. “It’s undercover time.”

Applejack and Rarity rolled their eyes.

Walking through the hallways of the Crystal Castle, the guard had led Hawke and Sparrow to their room and left them their suitcases in the room. Sparrow was amazed at how the castle was literally made of crystals and looked out the balcony to see the whole empire. Hawke looked around for a moment and saw a small black box on a table with a note on it. He reached for it and read the note on it.

Good luck,
From Cadence.

Hawke smiled and opened the box to see the ring was exactly what he was hoping for. He held it up to the light and it showed Twilight’s cutie mark in the center of it.

“Hey, what’s that?” Sparrow asked, walking back into the room.

Hawke was startled for a moment and almost dropped the ring but let out a sigh of relief as he was able to keep it in his hand. He turned around and showed it to Sparrow. “I’m planning on giving this to Twilight,” he replied.

Sparrow looked at the ring. “Oh, that’s cool looking. Is it some kind of anniversary between the two of you?”

“Nope, better. It’s a wedding ring.”

Sparrow’s eyes widen. “Wait, you mean-”

“Yep, I’m going to ask Twilight to marry me,” Hawke finished with a smile on him.

“WHAT!?”

Hawke’s eyes widen and quickly looked at the doorway with Pinkie standing there with her mouth wide opened.

“HAWKE, YOU’RE GOING TO PROPOSE TO-OOF!”

Before Pinkie could finish, Hawke quickly tackled her and held his hand over her mouth and had her pin down on the ground. She struggled around to get Hawke off of her and used her free hand to get his hand off of her mouth.

“Sparrow, quick! Grab some tape and rope!” Hawke shouted. “I have some in my case.”

Sparrow just nodded and went over to his and grabbed them. He handed them over to Hawke and he taped over Pinkie’s mouth first and started tying her down. After he was done, he carried her over his shoulder and placed her on chair where she tried to struggle out of it. Hawke wiped away the sweat off of him and Sparrow raised an eyebrow.

“Why did you have some tape and rope in your bag?” he asked.

“In case something like this happened,” Hawke replied.

“Mmph mmph ffhp wmmhp!” Pinkie tried to say but couldn’t because of the tape over her mouth.

“I’m sorry, Pinkie but you were about to blow my weeks of planning into dust,” Hawke explained. “Now I’m going to remove the tape but you have to promise not to shout out anything to do with me proposing to Twilight. Okay?”

Pinkie gave nod.

“Alright then.”

Hawke grabbed the tape and ripped it off of Pinkie quickly as he could. The sudden pull left a long red mark across Pinkie’s mouth and a small tear came out of her eyes as she was in agonizing pain.

“Ouchie,” Pinkie said in a low tone voice. “Okay, first, WHAT THE BISCUITS, HAWKE!? Did you really have to tackle me to the ground?!”

“Yes.”

“Oh, okay. Second, oh my gosh! You’re going ask Twilight to be your wife!?”

“Yep, going to ask her after the games in front of everypony in the stadium.”

“That sounds super awesome! Is there anything that I could do to help?”

“Yes, keep you mouth shut about it,” Hawke said. “I want this to be a surprise. The only reason I’m telling Sparrow this now is because he’s my brother….Also I wanted to at least tell one more person about it.”

“Really, who else knows?” Sparrow asked.

“Cadence knew about it and she helped me organized the whole thing.”

“That sounds so amazing!” Pinkie said. “You have to let me organize this! Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Plea-”

“Pinkie, were the top mare on the list,” Hawke said.

“YES! So what do you have planned so far?”

“Eh, the part about me asking Twilight to marry me?”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk,you have so much to learn, Hawke,” Pinkie said as she crossed her legs. “We got about a good hour before the opening ceremony starts, so we need to go over every wedding detail as fast as we can and get it ready.”

“E-Every detail?” Hawke asked, nervously.

“Every. Detail.”

Sparrow started walk backwards. “Um, if anyone needs me….I’ll be long gone.” He quickly bolted towards the exit until it was shut closed and he ended up smashing against it.

Hawke had a smug smile on him while his hand was glowing with blue aura and he blew it off. “Nice try, buddy but I happen to need an extra pair of hands for this,” he said.

“Oh, this is going to be exciting,” Pinkie proclaimed.

“Yeppy,” Sparrow said, sarcastically while he groaned.

It was now evening as the games were coming close to the end after the long hours of the competitions between all the athletes and the half times shows. And it was quite the games as not only did Spike lit the Equestria Games torch (with the help from Twilight of course) but was able to save a lot of ponies from being crushed by a giant, frozen cloud by breathing fire fire at it. Of course before Spike did anything about the cloud, Hawke attempted to stop it but after he jumped out of his seat, he forgot that the magical spell that kept all magic from being used was still active and fell down on top of some nobles. Now everypony was safe and were waiting for the closing ceremonies. Sitting where all the royalties and nobles were, Hawke was sitting in the lower row where all the princesses including Twilight were one row up from.

Hawke looked in his robes one last time and saw that the box was still in place. He looked back at Twilight to see she was still there in her spot. Twilight notice him and waved at him. He smiled and waved back at her as well. There was nothing that could have ruin this moment….well except maybe-

“How long are they going to keep us waiting?” Blueblood complained. “The games are already over and I have much more important to do back in Canterlot.”

Hawke rolled his eyes. ‘Nope, not letting him bring me down, today is too good. Even if I had to sit next to him because nopony else would even want to sit with him….Not that I would blame them’ he thought.

Down in the stands with the rest of the crowd, Pinkie Pie was bouncing in her seat with excitement while the others were waiting for the ceremonies.

“Today sure was fun, right girls?” Sweetie Belle asked her friends.

“No doubt about it,” Scootaloo replied.

“Ah hope we get to be flag carriers again at the next Equestria Games!” Applebloom said.

“Well, you girls have to work twice as hard if ya hope to get it again,” Applejack said patting the top of Applebloom’s head.

“Oh, you all were fantastic out there,” Rarity commented. “Especially you, Sweetie Belle.” She wrapped her arms around Sweetie Belle in a warm hug.

“Yeah, you did great out there, Sweetie,” Sparrow said.

Rarity glared over to Sparrow causing him to be flinch. “You’re lucky that your brother convinced me to tolerate your presence in the slightest,” she hissed. “So I still have my eye on you.”

“Y-Yes, ma’am…..I like your hair,” Sparrow said.

Rarity expression changed and felt admired. “Oh, why thank you, darling. I do a lot to keep that way,” she said as she fluffed her curly mane. Sparrow let out a sigh of relieve. “I still have my eye on you,” she hissed once more as she was face to face with him.

Sparrow gulped.

“And now to end the games with the lighting of the fireworks!” Shining Armor shouted into the microphone. He signaled Ms. Harshwhinny and she turned to Spike.

“Okay, it’s showtime!” she said

Spike nodded and blew a stream of green fire and lit all the fireworks simultaneously. The fireworks went off in the sky exploding into various shapes of fire and colors. Everypony cheered and were clapping at the display. After the fireworks were over, everypony was about to get up until Shining shouted once more into the microphone.

“And now for one more event!”

Everypony whispered to one another in confusion. All the princesses except Cadence had puzzled looks on them.

“Our ambassador and guardian, Hawke has something to say in front of everypony here today to my sister, Princess Twilight Sparkle.”

Suddenly lights were both on Twilight and Hawke. Twilight looked over to Hawke with a puzzled expression and was wondering what he was up to. One of the guards brought over Hawke a microphone resting on a pillow and he grabbed it. He tapped it a couple of times to see it was working and cleared his throat.

“Ponies of Equestria, first off, I want to say that this was no doubt the best Equestria Games ever! Even if it’s actually the first one I ever came too.” Hawke admitted and rubbed the back of his head. It earn him some laughs from the crowds. “But the main reason why wanted everypony’s attention is because there’s somepony here that I wanted to ask.” He then started walking around the row and towards Twilight. “Somepony that I have loved before we even admitted it to each other. Somepony that isn’t just beautiful and smart, but also brave and is very loving towards her friends and family.” He was then standing next to Twilight as she continued to hear his words and smiled but was still confused on what was happening. “She was the first pony I met since coming here and also the one that taught me how to use my magic for good. To me, you were always my princess before Princess Celestia made you one.” He then got on one and reached into his jacket to bring out a small black box. “I want to say that I love you, Twilight Sparkle and I want to ask you this one question.”

Twilight’s heart raced as she was now beginning to put the pieces together.

“Will you, Twilight Sparkle, be my wife?” he asked and flipped the box open to show her the ring inside.

Twilight covered her mouth and her eyes started tear up as she was looking at the ring and seeing the star shape amethyst of her cutie mark in the center. She levitated the ring towards her and held it firmly in her hands. She then looked at Hawke with a smile. “Yes,” she answered and kissed Hawke on the lips.

Everypony cheered tremendously and were clapping for the happy couple. Pinkie was jumping like crazy as was practically all over the stadium each time she jumped. All of Twilight and Hawke’s friends were whistling and clapping for them.

After the kiss, Hawke held the ring in his hand and slipped it onto Twilight’s left ring finger. The two looked at the ring for a moment and looked at each other's eyes.

“I love you, Twilight,” Hawke said. “And I always will.”

“I will as well, Hawke,” Twilight said and placed another kiss on him.

The two embrace one another as the crowd around them continued to cheer for them.