Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny

Chapters

A Twist of Destiny
Brothers United
Rise of a New Hero: Part 1
Rise of a New Hero: Part 2
First Day of School
Double Date
Returning Evil (Edit)
Rings and Blessings
Party Over Here!
Games and Proposals
Brothers Til the End - Part I
Brothers Til the End - Part II
Another Journey Through Life

A Twist of Destiny

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 1
A Twist of Destiny

Alright, where should I began? I guess introduction is in order here. Hi, my name is Dawn Hawke Gregory, Guardian of Equestria, savior and protector of Ponyville, and more notably known for being the only human in the entire world. I'm here to give you a quick summary of how I came to be here and how I came to be today. My sweet Twiliy, suggested I write down a journal about myself to preserve historical facts or something like that I don't know. She kinda forced me to do it since she was busy with royal duties and princess stuff. Oh, I should mention that she became a princess just recently. Before she became one she was just your ordinary unicorn girl who was being trained by one of the co-rulers of Equestria and was incredibly gifted with magic.......Actually now that I pointed that out, she's not really that ordinary, but she diffidently didn't have any wings then though. She's now what you would call an Alicorn. But enough about her for now, this journal suppose to be about me anyway. If I stay off course for too long she'll get mad at me.....Actually she'll get mad at me for doing this part, so it's a lose-lose situation.

Anyways, here is my story in a nutshell. One day back in my world, I was just a simple young adult just trying to get some milk, until a car came out of nowhere and ran over me. In case you don't know what a car is, it's a metal box that runs on fuel gas that we mostly find in the ground, from old bones that were in the ground for too long. Like I was saying, it ran me over and killing me in the process. You're probably wondering why I'm alive writing this all down for you. Well it was by chance that a strange voice brought me to life and sent me to Equestria in the first place. I don't know who this voice was or what it was, but if it wasn't for that voice I wouldn't be here today. The voice sent me to Equestria, while Twilight was doing a summoning spell that brought me here and I soon developed magical abilities of which neither both worlds has ever seen before.

After I came into this world, I met Twilight and Spike for the first time and soon I met the rest of their or should I say our friends. Rainbow Dash, the most cocky mare I had ever seen in my life. She can be stubborn most of the time and doesn't really like to play by the rules that well. But she is a good person and she is a very loyal friend at that. Applejack, Ponyville's down home cowgirl and the most honest mare you can find. Seriously, she's so honest that every time she lies she makes a scrunchy face and doesn't look you in the eye. Fluttershy, yep the name gives you the idea about her. Shyest mare you ever meet, but I guess that's what makes her the kindest pony you'll ever meet in your life. Rarity, in the words of my pal, Spike he would call her the most beautiful and graces pony you would have laid eyes on. She is of course no doubt the most generous one as well. And there's Pinkamena Diane Pie, but we call her Pinkie Pie for short. She is no doubt the craziest, party-obsess, sugar-loving pony that would always make everything fun just by smiling at you and always knows how to throw a wicked party and somepony with the ability to break the very laws of physics and time.

Later on, I found out that I was part of an ancient prophecy that involved when there would be a red moon that comes to Equestria and a dark and powerful creature would be able to use its magic to be powerful enough to enslave Equestria and take over the world for a thousand years of darkness. I accepted the task of becoming the hero of that prophecy and had to fight many abominable creatures and one time, a evil version of myself that were trying to stop me. When the day came, I was ready to give it my all and fought to my last breath to stop it. In the end, I won that battle and all of Equestria was saved. But I do fear on this day though, that my old enemies are still plotting against me for revenge or try to resurrect their fallen master's plan.

But, I will stay vigilante and watch over everypony here and make sure no pony gets hurt because of these people. I will use my magic against them and stop them no matter the cost. I am a protector, I am a hero, and I am the guar-

"HAWKE! HAWKE, ARE YOU IN THERE?" Twilight shouted as she was knocking on the door across the room.

Hawke let out a sigh. He had placed down the quill next to his journal that he was working on. He got up from his chair and grabbed his white cloak with his new outfit that his dear friend, Rarity had made for him during royal visits in Canterlot. He then went over to the door and opened it to see a lavender skinned girl.She was wearing a royal outfit that was the color of dark pink color with yellow trimmings and was wearing a crown with serial different star gems in it. "Hey Twiliy, is there something wrong?" he asked.

Twilight looked up to the white haired man that she had fallen in love with and said to him, "There you are! Do you know what time it is?"

"It's....10:30?" Hawke replied with confusion.

"Exactly, you were suppose to attend the royal submit with me," Twilight explained. "Now we're going to be late!"

Hawke put his left hand behind his head and gave out a weak smile. "Sorry about that, I lost track of time."

"*Sigh* Do you know how important it is to keep up appearance? Not to mention that I'm a princess now and I can't be late for these sort of things. I know that you don't like any of this stuff, but please bare with it."

"I know, I know and I'm sorry that I give you such a hard time with it. You know you can go without me, right?"

"I know that, but what kind of a marefriend would I be if I just let you have fun all the time?" Twilight replied giving an evil smirk.

"Good point," Hawke laughed and gave Twilight a kiss on her lips.

"Now come on, we better not let those politicians wait on us. You know how they get when somepony gets late," Twilight said grabbing hold onto Hawke's hand and guiding him along the way.

Hawke let out a small sigh and smiled at the girl of his dreams as she was motioning him towards the meeting.

A few hours had passed and Twilight and Hawke were now exiting the meeting room with the other royals and politicians. Hawke had the looked as if he was looking at dry paint for hours on end with no end in sight, while Twilight kept her composure up and looked as if she was never tired in the first place.

Hawke looked over to her and asked, "How can you deal with all that?"

"I guess I'm just used to it," Twilight said giving a shrug.

"Well, that meeting should have ended at least an hour ago, but that Blueblood guy had to complain about paying his taxes," Hawke said. Hawke was aware of Blueblood after Rarity had told him what he was like when she first met him at the Gala and how he treated her. Hawke didn't like men that treated women like objects when they were in fact living people as well and deserved to be treated like anyone else. Blueblood even attempted to court with Twilight sometime after she became a princess and was aware of the relationship between Hawke and her. Hawke put a quick end to that when he turned Blueblood's coat into pink.

"Well he does complain about everything he can," Twilight said.

"Let's just get back to our rooms, so I can get some sleep."

"Are you sure that's all you wanted to do tonight~?" Twilight asked giving a seductive look towards Hawke.

Hawke looked at Twilight with confusion and replied, "Yeeeaaaah, what else would we be doing?"

Twilight gave Hawke an confused look as well. "Well....you know....something fun," she replied once again giving her seductive look.

Hawke rubbed his chin for a moment and asked, "Like what?"

Twilight then changed her expression to an annoyed one. "You know, the kind of fun between what couples do."

"I have no idea what you're talking about now," Hawke replied bluntly.

Twilight gave herself a smack on the forehead. "Never mind."

"Umm Okay?"

They then continued on the way back to their respected rooms.

They then made it to their rooms that were next to one another. Hawke looked over to Twilight and said, "Goodnight Twiliy, I love you."

Twilight looked back at her loved one and replied, "Goodnight and I love you too."

They soon both gave each other their last kiss for the night and entered their rooms.

When Hawke soon got to his room, he threw over his cloak over by a nearby chair and just jumped on his bed skipping the part where he would change out of his outfit. He soon closed his eyes and began his long night of relaxation.

Twilight had entered her room and used her magic to quickly change her royal outfit into her nightgown. She climbed into her bed and grabbed one of her books from the nearby table. She then started to read 'The theory between magic and science' book and began her long night of relaxation.

Earth

It was usual night for Sparrow as he was walking down the long narrow walkway in the park. He was a young teen boy with blonde hair and green eyes. Wearing blue jeans with black shoes and wore a black shirt with a yellow jacket over it. He continued walking down the path as he always has since.......he lost his brother almost a year ago. Sparrow had always felt alone since he and his brother had lost their parents when they were both young, but his brother would always keep him company when he needed it and would always feel joy being around him all the time. But now with his brother gone, he now feels completely alone and there was no one to keep him smiling or at least keep him company. Living with his grandparents was alright of course, but it just wasn't the same for him. He did the best he could after his brother died and kept on going. It was the least he could do for his brother.

As Sparrow was walking, he noticed a well nearby that he had never seen before. 'Huh, that's new. When did they put this up?' he thought to himself. He went over to it and looked down into it. 'Can't see how long it is, but since it's dark now I suppose that would make since. Though I do wonder how deep it is and how could I have not notice this before? I walked through here a lot and I hadn't notice and construction going on around here.' All of a sudden, he felt a pushing force against his back and he soon fell into the well. He let out a scream as he was falling and thought he was going to die when he reach the ground, but the well was deeper than any well should be deep. He look down to see that there was another hole on the other side and soon found himself flying....out of another well? He was flying through the sky until he came tumbling down onto the ground unconscious.

Sparrow started to open his eyes as he was hearing chirping of birds and the sun was shinning on him. He got up with his head throbbing with pain and looked around his surroundings. He was not doubt in some kind of swamp-like forest and couldn't figure out where he was. He started to panic a bit when he came to a realization that he wasn't where he was anymore. 'What the heck is going on?' he thought. 'This isn't Texas, where am I? Okay, okay, now is not the time to panic. Gotta think straight.' He then looked back at the well and rubbed his chin for a moment. 'Maybe whatever this well is, it can take me back where I was before. It's at least worth a try.' He then sat at the edge of the well and got ready to jump.

'Okay, I can do this. On three....one.....two.........two and a half......THREE!'

Sparrow then jumped into the well.

*CRACK*

"AAAA! MY LEGS!"

After an hour of recovering in the well and then another hour of climbing out of the well, Sparrow decided to explore his surroundings since his first plan didn't go so well. He moved through the bushes and pass by the branches as he kept moving in some random direction, keeping a close watch for signs or marks that would lead him back to the well in case he got lost on the way. So much time had passed until he finally came into a large clearing and walked out of the forest. He then looked around to see a bunch of apple tress all around him and far in the distance there was a large red barn.

'Finally! At least there somebody around here that could help me' Sparrow thought to himself. He then looked around to see a nearby treehouse and walked over to it. 'That looks cool, besides the heart shape holes in the door and windows, but still cool......Wait, is that another part of the treehouse there?' There was a small wood box on top of the tree that acted as if it was a watchtower. 'Okay, that just awesome right there.'

Sparrow then heard a voice. "LOOK OUT BELOW!"

Sparrow turned his head towards the voice to see three girls hurdling towards him in a hang glider. His pupils shrunk. "Ah oh."

*CRASH*

"Ow."

Under the remains of the hang glider one of the girls got out from under it. "Well, hang gliding didn't work," she said while everything was feeling dizzy to her. She had spiky purple mane and orange skin fur. She wore a yellow shirt with blue jeans and had a pair of orange wings on her back.

Another one of the girls climbed out of it and said, "Ah think we should do less dangerous stuff that involves flying." She had long red mane with a bow on top and yellow skin fur. She was wearing a green shirt with blue jeans.

"Agreed."

The red mane girl looked around for a moment and asked, "Hey, where's Sweetie Belle?"

"Eeehhhh...I'm under here," said the voice under the remains of the hang glider.

The two girls then started to move the glider off of their friend and after they did that, they saw their friend on top of somepony else that was unconscious.

"What the hay is that?" the purple mane girl asked.

"I don't know, Scootaloo but......Wait, he looks almost like Hawke."

"Are you sure, Applebloom? He looks a bit....well actually a lot smaller than Hawke is and he has blonde hair."

"Eh girls, I think he's waking up," Sweetie Belle said.

Sparrow's eyes started to open up a bit and everything was blurry to him. He felt something heavy on top of his stomach and looked up to see a girl on him. But she was no ordinary girl as she had white fur all over her body and had a horn on her forehead. She was wearing a white jacket with a blue shirt under it and was wearing a blue skirt with purple flower designs on it. What really attracted his attention was her pale, harlequin green eyes as he was staring at her. In the back of his mind, all he could think of was how cute they looked on her. There was an awkward silence between the four and Sparrow decided to break the ice by saying, "Ummm, Hi?"

"Hello?" Sweetie Belle replied with confusion.

"What's your name?"

"Sweetie Belle. What's your name?"

"My name is Sparrow." There was another moment of silence until Sparrow asked, "Can you get off of me, please?"

Sweetie Belle blushed and quickly got off the boy looking away from him with embarrassment.

Applebloom walked up to and held out her hand in front of Sparrow. "Do you need a hand?" she asked.

Sparrow simply nodded and grabbed onto the hand. Applebloom pulled him up and said, "My name is Applebloom and this here is Scootaloo." She pointed to where Scootaloo was.

Scootaloo lifted up her right hand and waved at Sparrow. "Hey there." she said.

"Hi. Umm if you guys don't mind me asking, but what exactly are you?" Sparrow asked as he looked at all the girls.

"Well, we're ponies. Can't you tell?" Applebloom replied.

"Not really no. The only kinds of ponies I know of is that they're usually have four legs and a muzzle. Not standing on two legs and can talk," Sparrow explained.

"What? That's ridicules. That's just an urban legend made up by scientist," Scootaloo commented.

Sparrow looked at Scootaloo with a puzzled look. 'Ridicules? Urban legend? Made up? What the heck did I get myself into? This seems like something my brother would get into,' he thought to himself. He then notice that each of them was different. The one named Scootaloo had a pair of wings on her back, Sweetie Belle had a white horn on her forehead, and Applebloom seemed like a normal person (Or what counts as normal in this case.) "How come one of you has a horn and the other one has a wing?" he asked.

"Well duh, I'm a pegasus," Scootaloo replied showing off her wings.

"And I'm a unicorn. We can be able to use magic," Sweetie explained.

'Magic?' Sparrow began to think to himself. 'This just getting better and better,' he said sarcastically. He looked over to Applebloom and asked, "What about you?"

"Ah'm just a regular earthpony, but that just means Ah'm tha strongest one," Applebloom replied.

"Huh?"

"Oh right, you're new. Let me explain," Applebloom said. "Earthponies can have immense strength so we can harvest and plant everything on the earth."

"Pegasi can control the weather and live on clouds," Scootaloo started explaining. "That also means that we can resist high amount of lightning, but it can still hurt though."

"And like I said, unicorns can use magic and we use them to help us in our daily lives," Sweetie Belle finish.

"I see. Where am I exactly?"

"You're in the kingdom of Equestria," Sweetie Belle answered.

"......Really?" Sparrow asked in disbelieve.

"What?"

"You guys named your kingdom based on an equine pun?"

"Well....It just always been like that."

"Yeah, besides what kind of a name is Sparrow anyway?" Scootaloo asked. "That's just a type of bird."

"Hey, it pretty cool name," Sparrow said defensively.

Scootaloo rolled her eyes and asked, "Anyways, are you a human or something?"

Sparrow was actually surprised that she would know what species he was. "Yeah, I am. How did you know? Are there others like me?"

"No, but there is one who's one of our best pals and not ta mention his Equestria's guardian," Applebloom explained.

"Really? Who is he," Sparrow asked curiously.

"His name is-"

*BOOM*

"WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT?!?" Applebloom shouted as an explosion erupted in the distance.

The four looked over to the town of Ponyville and saw clouds of smoke coming from the town.

"Something happening down there in Ponyville," Sweetie Belle stated.

"You named your town Ponyville?" Sparrow asked raising an eyebrow with even more disbelieve.

"Would you shut up and just follow us," Scootaloo said and started to take the lead towards the town.

The other two girls shrugged and started to follow Scootaloo leaving behind Sparrow to himself for a moment. He looked back and forth between the forest that he came from and the town that was in front of him. He gave out a sigh and said to himself, "I'll probably regret this." He then went to follow the girls towards town.

Sparrow and the girls were now in the the town and they soon went over to where the smoke was coming from. Sparrow put on his hoodie to make sure no one would pay attention to him and reveal the fact that he's human until he knows what to do. When they got closer, Sparrow look to see a building that looked like it was completely made out of gingerbread. Smoke was coming from the building and the Cakes were outside with their children in their arms.

Applebloom walked over to the married couple and asked, "Mr. and Mrs. Cake, what happened here?"

Mr. Cake looked over to Applebloom and replied, "We don't know."

"One minute everything was fine and the next there was an explosion that came from the kitchen," Mrs. Cake finished.

"I think Pinkie Pie was in the kitchen when it happened. Has anypony seen her?" Mr. Cake asked looking around.

On cue, a pink furred girl came walking out wearing a light blue shirt with a pink heart on it and a small skirt with the same color, covered in black ashes. She came falling on her back in front of the other and they soon came around you to see if she was okay.

"Pinkie Pie! Are you alright?" Mrs. Cake asked concernedly.

"*Cough* Yep, I'm okie dokie loki," Pinkie Pie said with a smile.

"What happened in there?" Mr. Cake asked.

"Well, I was trying a new recipe that I came up with and tried all kinds of things to make it. At first it wasn't working, but then I decided to try some science like Twilight does, so I borrowed some of her equipment from her lab that she told me never to go to whenever she's gone to Canterlot or some other place. But I couldn't wait too long, because it was like a super cool awesome idea that I had to try right then and there. Everything was working out great until the part that it exploded! Did you guys see the explosion? It was like 'BANG' and everything was dizzy for a bit," Pinkie explained.

Everypony let out a sigh and Sweetie Belle said, "Well at least worst part is over."

"Oh that's not the worst part," Pinkie stated.

"Huh?" Everypony said in unison including Sparrow.

"That's the worst part." Pinkie pointed towards the shop.

On cue a giant pink blob came crashing throw the front door and it soon formed a giant face with two eye sockets and formed a large mouth. It let out a horrifying roar and everypony screamed to the top of their lungs. Everypony soon started to run for there lives from the blob creature. The blob then formed two arms and grabbed Pinkie. She let out a terrified scream for scream.

"HANG ON! I'LL SAVE YOU," Sparrow shouted and ran towards the blob.

"SPARROW, WAIT!" Sweetie Belle shouted.

Sparrow got close to the blob and threw a fist towards the creature's stomach. But when he hit it, his fist went right into it. He and the blob looked at each other and Sparrow let out a weak chuckle. The blob let out another roar and grabbed him. It soon threw him to the air and he crashed landed on a nearby cabbage stall.

"MY CABBAGES!" shouted the owner.

The girls ran over to Sparrow to make sure that he was alright. Sweetie Belle lifted up his torso and asked, "Sparrow, are you alright?"

"Sort of," Sparrow answered while he was in a daze.

The blob let out a triumph roar and still was holding onto Pinkie.

"I'm sorry that I brought you to live, Mr. Blob!" Pinkie pleaded. "If you want, I can still make you into that super awesome tasty double decker strawberry cake like I planned."

The blob let out an angry roar and was about to put Pinkie in his mouth.

"Well, I guess since that's your answer........HHHEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!"

Then from out of nowhere, a flash of blue energy came towards the blob and it soon blow up the arm that Pinkie was on. Pinkie soon landed on her rump and let out a "Oof" sound. She turned to see a figure wearing a dark blue jacket with a hood over his head and black pants. He was wearing a pair of sliver gauntlet with moon shaped sapphires on them and silver metal boots. Around his neck was a silver lace with a six pointed pink star and held a long staff with a blue orb on the top.

He began walking towards the blob and was twirling his staff around in a circle. He spoke up and said, "Man I used to think that you were suppose to eat pastries not the other way around, Pinkie."

Pinkie's eyes grow wide with joy. "HAWKE!" she shouted gleefully.

Sparrow eyes widen at the mention of the figures name and looked directly at him. 'Hawke?' He thought to himself. 'No, it can't be.'

The blob let out a roar and slithered towards Hawke very quickly. Hawke stopped twirling his staff and pointed towards the blob. He gathered his magic into his staff's orb and fired a ball of blue fire towards the creature and completely incinerating it into ashes. Everypony let out a joyous cheer for Hawke and quickly gathered around him.

As Hawke was being surrounding by everypony, Applebloom came up to him and said, "Hawke, our new friend got hurt when he was trying to help Pinkie."

Hawke looked up to the hooded Sparrow and removed his own hood to reveal his face. Sparrow eyes widen even more as he almost recognized Hawke. 'No way.....He looks almost like him. NO! IT CAN'T BE HIM, HE'S DEAD! GONE! IT CAN'T BE HIM, HE JUST CAN'T BE!'

After talking with Applebloom for a moment, Hawke walked over to Sparrow and knelt down to his eye level. "Applebloom told me that you tried to save Pinkie Pie. That was a brave thing to do," He said. "While I don't normally like a kid to fight something like that, but it was the right thing to do at the time." Hawke gave a smile to kid that was in front of him.

"Well umm....No problem," Sparrow said trying to avoid eye contact with Hawke under his hood.

Hawke was puzzled by Sparrow's reaction and not looking at him at all. "Are you okay?" He asked. "You didn't get hurt do you?"

"N-No, I'm fine, really."

"Are you sure, Sparrow?" Sweetie Belle asked. "You sounded fine just a moment ago."

Hawke's eyes suddenly widen at the name. "Sparrow? Did you say Sparrow?" he asked Sweetie Belle.

"Yeah, why do you ak-"

Before Sweeite Belle could finish, Hawke quickly grabbed Sparrow's hood and moved it to revealed his face. When he did that, Hawke's was shock to see the face of the boy.

"No," Hawke started to say. "It can't be."

"It can't be what, Hawke?" Scootaloo asked. "Do you know him?"

Hawke didn't look away from Sparrow and replied, "Yes, He's....He's my-"

"I'm his brother," Sparrow finished.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Edit: I added "somepony with the ability to break the very laws of physics and time" for Pinkie thanks to NeoNefario's advisement.

Brothers United

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 2
Brothers United

After the incident at Sugar Cube Corners and when everypony discovered that Hawke's brother, Sparrow had came to Equestria, the mane six, Spike, the crusaders, Hawke, and Sparrow were at Golden Oak Library. Twilight and Hawke were talking with Sparrow in private, while the others waited on them in the living room.

Rainbow Dash was giving off a bored expression. "Ugh! How long are they going to be in there?" she asked impatiently. "They've been in there for almost forever already." She was wearing a shirt that was dark blue with yellow trimmings and was wearing a light blue feather jacket over it. She was also wearing a black spandex shorts. Her fur was cyan colored and her mane and tail were the colors of a rainbow with red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and purple.

Applejack looked over to Rainbow Dash and said, "Come on now, Dash. It's been ten minutes and we need ta give them some time. It's not everyday that ya see your own sibling come visit ya from another world." She was wearing her signature stetson and was wearing a orange and yellow patterned cotton shirt with blue jeans and brown boots. Her fur was orange and her mane and tail were blonde.

"She has a point darling," Rarity said. "Ooohh, IIIDDEEEEEAAA! This would give me a chance to try out so many new outfits for Hawke's little brother." She was wearing dark grey sweater with a long light grey skirt and was wearing a heart shape ruby around her neck. Her fur was white and she had a curly violet mane and tail.

"It would be interesting to see what he would wear," Fluttershy said. She was wearing a white shirt and a light green skirt with a small butterfly pin on her mane. Her mane and tail was pink and had pale yellow fur.

"This is so EXCITING! Now I get to throw not just one 'Welcome to Ponyville' party for a human, but now I get throw another one," Pinkie said excitingly. "*GASP!* What should I do? Should I get him a cake? Does he even like cake? OMC, what kind of a person doesn't like cake? What kind of presents does he like? Does he like pinatas? Should I-"

Pinkie kept rambling on and on about her party ideas while everypony else had to endure her constant talking.

"I hope everything goes well," Sweetie Belle said worried about Sparrow.

"Ah'm sure everything well be fine, Sweetie," Applebloom said. "Ah think Hawke just wanted to talk with him alone for a moment."

"I can see why Hawke would see him, but why did Twilight come along?" Scootaloo asked.

"You know Twilight, she just wanted to see if Sparrow can do any magic like Hawke does," Spike answered. Spike was a young dragon boy with spike green hair with pointy ears and purple scaly skin. He wore a green shirt with a dark purple jacket over it and dark green pants.

Sweetie Belle looked over to closed door that Twilight, Hawke, and Sparrow were behind. "I wonder what they're talking about right now?" she asked herself.

"-And that's how I came to be here," Sparrow finished explaining to Hawke and Twilight.

The three were sitting around a round table and each of them was having a different drink. Hawke was having a cup of water, Twilight was sipping on some tea, and Sparrow was drinking some lemonade.

After sipping, Twilight placed her cup down on the table and looked over to Sparrow. "So you fell into a well and came out of another well, right?" she asked.

"Right."

"How did you fell in the first place?"

"Well, for some reason I was pushed into it."

"By who?"

"That's just it, I don't know what pushed me in."

"Interesting," Twilight said placing a her index finger on her lower lip. "Do you remember where the well is now?"

"Sort of," Sparrow answered. "It was in the middle of the woods."

"The Everfree Forest?"

"I guess." Sparrow looked over to his older brother, who had a concern look on him and was rubbing his chin. "Bro, there's something I wanted to ask you."

Hawke looked up to Sparrow and asked, "You wanted to ask how I'm alive?"

"Well, yeah that's important too, but how come your hair is white now?"

"Side effect of having magical powers," Hawke answered.

"That's cool," Sparrow comment. "So you have powers now?"

"Yep."

"What kinds of thing can you do?"

"I can do all kinds of thing like teleportations, shoot fireballs from my hands, fly through the sky, you name it."

"Wow, so you're like a sorcerer now?

"Yeah pretty much."

"Cool," Sparrow commented. He then looked at Twilight and asked, "Is she a sorceress than?"

"In basic terms, yes she is," Hawke replied. "Although she is a princess now."

"Huh?" Sparrow said in confusion.

"Yeah and she was once a unicorn too, but now she's an alicorn."

"What?"

"Oh yeah and she's my girlfriend,"

"........WAIT, WHAT?!?!?"

"This is going to be a long day," Twilight said out of the blue.

Thirty minutes had passed and Hawke had told Sparrow everything that had happened since his time during Equestria and how he became to be the guardian of it. Sparrow was amazed at what Hawke did over the past year and couldn't believe that this was happening. After that, Hawke and Twilight went back to the lobby with the rest of the gang to introduce Sparrow to all of them. Spike was the first of them to go.

"Hey there, pal. My name is Spike and I'm Twilight's number one assistant."

"Cool, I'm Sparrow. So you really are a dragon?"

"Well, I'm technically a drake, but yeah I'm mostly a dragon."

"Awesome."

Applejack then stepped forward to meet Sparrow and knelt down to meet his face with her's.

"Howdy, partner. I'm Applebloom's sister, Applejack. It's nice ta meet ya."

"It's nice to meet you too, Miss. Applejack."

"Aaww, you don't have ta use formalities for me," Applejack said rubbing Sparrow's head. "You can just call me, Applejack."

"Okay, thanks Applejack."

All of a sudden, a gust of wind blew right past both Sparrow and Applejack witch caused Applejack's hat to smack against Sparrows face. Rainbow Dash was floating on top of them with a grin. "Hey there kid, name's Rainbow Dash, Equestria's best flyer in the entire world and only pony that can do the rainboom," she said crossing her arms.

"Ummm, it's nice to meet you too?" Sparrow said in confusion.

Sparrow then felt a pair of arms wrapped around him and was being pulled in by Fluttershy giving him a gentle hug. "Aren't you the sweetest looking colt I've ever seen before," She said as she was tightening her hug. "My name is Fluttershy."

"H-h-h-hi," Sparrow said nervously. He was beginning to sweat and blushing quite violently as his face was near her large......melons? Yeah, lets go with melons.

Fluttershy noticed Sparrow's red face and asked concernedly, "Oh my, you're not having a fever are you?"

Sparrow's eyes widen a bit. "N-n-no, I-I'm fine! Really, I'm fine," He replied giving a nervous smile.

Hawke snickered at his little brothers awkward position, but was elbowed by Twilight to motion him to do something.

"Uh, hey Fluttershy, why don't you let Sparrow meet the others now," Hawke suggested.

"Oh, okay," Fluttershy said and let go of Sparrow, who let out a sigh of relieve.

Rarity walked towards in a lady-like fashion. "Why hello, deary. My name is Rarity and I'm one of Equestria's greatest fashion designers." She said boldly.

"Oh that's cool," Sparrow commented. "Umm, do you prefer that I call you, Miss Rarity?"

"Well, you don't have to, but it is every gentlecolts duty to call a lady a miss when pronouncing her name," Rarity explained.

Applejack rolled her eyes around and Hawke furrowed his brow in confusion.

Hawke leaned over to Twilight. "Wait a minute, Rarity never mentioned that I had to call her a miss," he whispered.

"That's because she never saw you as a gentlecolt in the first place," she replied giving away a smirk look.

"Oh," Hawke said with a satisfied look. It took him a moment for Twilight words to sink into his brain and when he figured it out, he gave out an annoyed look. "Hey!" he whispered under his breath.

After Rarity was done introducing herself, a bunch of streamers came out of nowhere in front of Sparrow and was being once again hugged by Pinkie Pie.

"Hey there, Sparrow!" Pinkie said excitedly. "You remember me from what happened earlier, right?"

"Yeah, you were-"

"-About to be eaten by that giant pink blob pastry that I made with Twilight lab set and chemicals in order to make that super awesome cake idea that I had. Too bad that didn't work, but I'll find a way to make it. Mark my words! MARK MY WORDS!!" Pinkie said as she was holding her fist in the air for a few seconds and went back to hugging Sparrow.

"Umm, okay?" Sparrow said in confusion.

"Oh, by the way," Pinkie began to say. "Do you like parties?"

"Umm, yeah?"

"Awesome! Because I'm throwing you the biggest 'Welcome to Equestria and Brother Reunion' party ever!" Pinkie said continuing her hug. Her eyes suddenly widen and with a smile she said, "Ooo, I almost forgot."

"What did you forg-Huh?" Sparrow tried to say until Pinkie placed a kiss on his cheek and he was blushing violently again. Sweetie Belle gave out a pouting look on her face.

"Thanks for trying to save me. It was really nice of you to do that," Pinkie said.

"N-n-no problem," Sparrow replied nervously.

"Hey, what about-"

"Hawke, if you finish that sentence, I'll send you to the moon," Twilight said as she was giving Hawke her version of Fluttershy's stare.

"Never mind," Hawke quickly said.

After that Twilight looked over to Sparrow. "Now that all the introduction is done, is there anything else that you want to do?" she asked.

"Actually," Sparrow began to say and let out a yawn. "I could use a nap right about now, it's been a long day for me."

"That's probably a good idea, since Pinkie is going to give you your party sometime tonight," Hawke pointed out. "You can come and live with me in one of the guest rooms. Since I have only have, what seven rooms?"

"Can't believe we're not even doing anything in those rooms," Twilight muttered under her breath.

"Huh?"

"Uh, nothing," Twilight quickly responded and was whistling a tone.

Hawke looked at Twilight for a moment and just gave out a shrug. He and Sparrow soon walked out the door after they said their goodbyes.

As soon as the door closed behind them, Pinkie's eyes widen with a sudden realization. "Ah shoot! I forgot to ask what flavored cake he likes!"

At Hawke's home that laid near the outskirts of the town, he was showing Sparrow around his house. He showed him the where the bathrooms were, bedrooms, living room, the kitchen, his own laboratory (which Twilight set up for him), and apparently a cake room (which Pinkie set up for him without him knowing......again.) Hawke soon was showing Sparrow's new room and Sparrow quickly jumped on the bed and got himself ready for a nap.

"I see you already like the bed," Hawke said.

"No kidding, this is way more comfortable then our usual beds," Sparrow said. "Is this thing made out of clouds?"

"Possibly."

"Wait, what?"

"Anyways, I'm going to let you get some sleep. You need to be fully awake when Pinkie throws that party for you," Hawke explained and started to walk out the door.

"Wait!" Sparrow suddenly said causing Hawke to stop halfway through the door. There was a moment of silence between the two brothers and Sparrow finally spoke up and said, "I'm so glad to see you again, bro."

Hawke gave Sparrow a warm smile and walked over to him and gave him a gentle hug. "I'm glad to see you too, buddy."

Tears soon developed on the brothers' eyes as they were overjoyed with their happy reunion.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

"Hawke?"

"Yeah?"

"I know that the author said that you're giving me a gentle hug, but you're definition of a gentle hug is actually a bone crushing one. ACK!"

"Oh....sorry."

Rise of a New Hero: Part 1

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 3
Rise of a New Hero: Part 1

It was early in the morning as Sparrow was still asleep in his bed; laying on his side. He was exhausted from the party that Pinkie threw for him and meeting everybo- everypony that were there. He began to wake up as his eyes slightly opened and felt the warm of his bed. But when he thought about it, he wasn't completely covered by the bed sheets as they were only covering his legs and felt something soft on his back. He looked down at his stomach to see a pair of pink arms wrapped around. His eyes quickly widen at this and looked behind him to see Pinkie was sleeping right next to him.

'P-P-P-PINKIE?!?! WHAT IS SHE DOING IN MY BED?!?!'

Sparrow's face was a bright shade of red from being nervous, shocked, and embarrass at the same time. His was trying to wrap his mind at what happen last night that led to this event.

'Okay, stay calm. Let's try to remember what happen last night,' Sparrow thought to himself. 'Let's see, I took a small nap and big bro woke me up for the party. I saw Pinkie and the other's there, including the girls that I met near the forest, and a bunch of other people there that I haven't met. Pinkie introduce me to, let me see, Vinyl (I think that was her name.), Octavia (She looked nice.), Lyra (She was a little...weird.), Bon Bon (I like her, she gave me some lollipops.), Derpy (Or was it Ditzy?), Doctor Hooves (Why does that name remind me of something?), and a lot of others too. I pretty much stayed at the party for a few hours and I think I fell asleep when I was just sitting with Hawke and the others in the living room. I guess Hawke brought me to my room to let me sleep and Pinkie must have came up here during that time. Which now leaves the question, WHY IS SHE IN MY BED!?!?'

"Well duh, to keep you company."

"What?" Sparrow looked over to see that Pinkie was awake now and had a big smile on her face. "Did you- Did you just read my mind?"

"No silly, I can't read your mind," Pinkie answered. "I can only hear your mind."

"....Okay, fine. Did you hear my mind?"

"I think I just told you that I could hear your mind."

Sparrow slapped himself on the face. "Okay, how did you hear my mind?"

"That's a secret."

"OH, COME ON!"

Pinkie just let out a giggle and Sparrow gave up hope of ever understanding her.

"Why are you keeping me company anyway? Doesn't Hawke know that your here?"

"Well yeah, but Hawke wanted me to keep an eye on you while he and Twilight went off to find that well that sent you here," Pinkie explained.

"But wouldn't they need me to find it in the first place?"

"Not really, Twilight is using her tracking spell to follow your footprints. Only in reverse since she isn't trying to find you."

"Ah, I see."

There was an awkward silence between the two as they were laying on Sparrow's bed.

"Pinkie?"

"Yeesss~"

"Can you let me go so I can get dress, please?"

"Okie dokie lokie."

Pinkie let go of Sparrow and he walked over to his drawer. He opened it up and started to grab some clothes that Hawke was able to get for him, but there was one problem.

"Ummm, Pinkie?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you mind if I get dress?"

"No, I don't mind at all."

Sparrow slapped himself in the face again.

After sometime of traveling in the forest, Hawke and Twilight were able to find the well that Sparrow came from. Twilight examined the well carefully using her most powerful magics and vast scientific knowledge and all she could come up with was-

"It's just a normal well," Twilight said.

"Okay, I could have told you that without spending more then an hour to tell you that," Hawke commented.

Twilight shot a glared over to Hawke.

"What?"

"If it was just a normal well, then how come Sparrow's tracks came exactly from here?"

"Hmmm," Hawke took a moment to think about it. "Maybe the well from my world is magical and this one isn't?"

"That's not how portals work, Hawke. They can work one-way sometimes, but the receiving end has to at least have some kind of magical presence around it and this well doesn't have any which raise even more questions than answers."

"I'm sure you can figure it out, Twiliy. Your the only genius girl that can figure anything no matter what."

"Awww, thanks sweetie." Twilight placed a peck on Hawke's cheek. "Your my big, handsome stallion."

"Glad to hear that," Hawke said. "If this thing brought my little bro here in the first place, then maybe we can use it to go back to earth."

"Ummm Hawke, I don't think it dosen't-"

"I'm going to jump in."

"Wait, Hawke! Don't you remember what-"

"Just hold on, it'll be just a second."

"But-"

"Twiliy, whatever your trying to say can wait till after I jump in the well."

"*Sigh* Fine!"

Hawke stepped on the edge of the well and after a few seconds to prepare, he jumped in and-

*CRACK*

"AAAHHHH! MY LEGS!"

Twilight placed her hand on her face and gave out a weary sigh. She looked over the edge down at Hawke and said, "Sparrow told us he did that, remember?"

"I do now," Hawke said weakly.

"-And that's exactly what happened," Twilight explained to Sparrow and Pinkie. After some recovery time, Hawke and Twilight told Sparrow and Pinkie everything that they could about the well and couldn't figure out how Sparrow got in Equestria in the first place.

"So bro really did jump in?"

"*Sigh* Yeah he did."

"I'm not that surprised." Sparrow said, bluntly.

"WHAT?"

"I kinda expected it too." Twilight agreed.

"HEY!"

"So wait, I'm stuck here then?" Sparrow asked.

"I'm afraid so, unless we find another way to get you back." Twilight replied.

"Well, that's okay I guess."

"So does that mean Sparrow is going to be living in Ponyville with the rest of us?" Pinkie asked and everyone nodded. "WOOHOO! Ugh....I mean-" Pinkie turned to Sparrow and started patting him on the back. "I'm sorry to hear that Sparrow."

"It's okay, at least I get to spend time with big bro again. Right, Hawke?" Sparrow asked, facing his older brother.

"You bet, squirt. It'll be like old times," Hawke said. He reached for Sparrow and arm-locked him around his neck and started giving him a noogie.

"HEY! Cut it out!"

"Then say uncle!"

"NEVER!"

Pinkie was laughing at the brothers' display while Twilight just gave out a giggle. Twilight looked over to her clock and her eyes widen at the time.

"Oh my Equestria! Our train to Canterlot is going to leave in twenty minutes!" Twilight shouted.

Hawke and Sparrow stopped their rough housing when they heard Twilight.

"So what? It's not like we need to pack or anyhting," Hawke

"But we do!"

"What? We're not staying over there are we?"

"Yes we are!"

"....Then why do we need to pack? We already have clothes over there in case we go there."

"I meant Sparrow's clothes! He's doesn't have any over there!"

"I'm sure there's some clothes that we can get while we're there."

"Hawke, don't be lazy and get him some clothes, now! We're wait for you at the train station."

Twilight motioned Sparrow to come with her and Pinkie soon followed behind.

"But-"

"NOW!"

In a flash, Hawke quickly ran back to his home to grab Sparrow's things while racing against time.

After a long train ride towards Canterlot, The brothers, the mane six, and Spike had entered into the city's castle and were observing one the glass windows; depicting Twilight's ascension as an alicorn.

"You look amazing, darling. They've really captured your regality," Rarity complimented.

"I supposed," Twilight said, hinting doubt in her voice.

"Oh, don't be so modest. It's everypony's dream to someday wear a crown and have their coronation ceremony preserved in stained glass for all to see," Rarity said.

"I don't know if it's everypony's dream," Rainbow Dash commented.

"Most of my dreams are about frosting!" Pinkie said, licking lips. "Ohohohoho."

'Thank god, that's all she's dreaming about,' Sparrow thought to himself.

"Oh, last night though, Sparrow and I were-"

"Eehhhh, I'm going to go explore the rest of the castle," Sparrow quickly said and started walking away in a hurry.

"Hey do you want me to come along?" Hawke asked. "You can get lost here very quickly."

"Yeah, I mean it took Hawke forever just for him to learn from left and right," Rainbow said, leaving a sly look on her face.

"Yeah, just like sh- HEY!"

"It's okay, I just want some alone time is all," Sparrow said, walking out of the room.

"Is he okay? I mean, is it normal for him to walk around by himself?" Twilight asked, concernedly.

"Yeah, sometimes he likes to walk by himself. It's nothing to worry about," Hawke explained. He then turned over to Pinkie. "Ummm, just out of curiosity, what were you going say about you and Sparrow?"

"I was about to say that he and I were frolicking through a meadow that was filled with cakes and frostings."

"......Yeah, something tells me that's not going to happen anytime soon."

Sparrow was taking in the sight as he was walking down the hallways of the castle. He would see all kinds of stained glasses, decorations, paintings, and see some of the other rooms. He would occasionally walk by some of the guards of course, but luckily he was wearing a pass card to indicate that he was a guest here.

As he was walking, he heard someone yell in the room next to him.

"You incompetent fool! You almost ruined my mane!"

Sparrow placed his head against the door to hear what was going on inside.

"I'm sorry, my lord. I didn't mean to-"

"What? Trying to ruin my good looks? I shall have you fired at once!"

"No please, I beg you!"

"And why should I not?"

"Please, I can't afford to lose my job. I'm a widow now and I have two mouths to feed back home."

"Hmmm, well we could make some.....arrangements."

"W-What do you mean, my lord?"

"I think you know what I mean."

"No please, anything but-"

"You will do as I say or you're fired!"

Sparrow could hear nothing but sobbing on the other side and he was boiling with anger at what he was hearing.

'TO HELL WITH THAT!'

Sparrow took a few steps back and rushed towards the door; kicking it opened. When he kicked the door opened, he saw a young looking, earthpony mare that was wearing a maids outfit that was colored black and white like any other servant outfits. Her mane was short that was blonde colored and her coat was a pale colored tan. She had ruby colored eyes that was filled with shock at the young man's actions. He then looked over to see the creep that was holding her arm in his right hand. He was a unicorn that was also a blonde as well, but had a white coat on him and was wearing a white tuxedo that matched his coat. His eyes was filled with both shock and anger at the same time.

"HOW DARE YOU BRAKE MY DOOR OPEN, BRAT!" The stallion creep shouted. "I SHOULD HAVE THE GUARDS KICK YOU OUT!"

"When I'm done with you, they're going to take you out of here instead," Sparrow threatened. 'A bit cheesy, but it makes my point.' he thought.

"YOU DARE THREATEN A PRINCE?"

*Gulp*'I didn't think this through, did I?' Sparrow thought as his skin was turning pale. 'Should have tried to get big bro or Twilight to take care of this.'

"I SHOULD HAVE THE GUARDS TAKE YOU AND-" Before the stallion could finish, his eyes shrunk and he was petrified with fear as he took a few steps back.

Sparrow furrowed his brow when he saw the stallion stamper and he noticed that there was someone behind him. He looked behind and his eyes widen with amazement of what he was looking at. He saw a dark blue mare that stood almost as taller as Hawke, had both a horn and wings on her back like Twilight, and her mane and tail were the colors of the night sky itself and were floating in the air even though there wasn't a breeze at all. Her cyan colored iries looked over to the white unicorn with rage.

"BLUEBLOOD! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" the dark mare shouted with unbelievable rage.

"T-This impudent brat try to break into my room and threaten to hurt me," Blueblood said in his defense.

The mare looked down at the young man. Her eyes soften when she was looking at him and asked him in a much sweeter voice, "Is this true, little colt?"

Sparrow was little hesitant at first as he was feeling a bit of fear, but he mustered all he got and replied, "Yes, ma'm it's true, but I heard that he was going to do something terrible to that maid over there. So I couldn't stand by and do nothing."

There was a small smile on the mare's face after she heard that and it her face quickly turned to anger when was looking at Blueblood. "My office. Now!" she commanded.

"But, but he-"

"I. Said. NOW!"

Blueblood gulped and quickly walked out the room and head, where Sparrow presumed, the dark mare's office. The dark mare looked over to the maid and said, "You should tell my sister what happened. She would more than help you move you somewhere else to work and would make sure you never have to take commands from my nephew ever again."

The maid was filled with joy as her eyes began to tear up. "Thank you, Princess Luna, thank you," the maid said, ecstatically and bowed to her princess. She then looked over to Sparrow and said, "Thank you for your bravery, Sir ummm-"

"Sparrow."

"Thank you very much, Sir Sparrow!" The maid then placed a kiss on Sparrow's cheek and she then quickly ran off.

Sparrow felt a little daze from the kiss and blushed. He then looked over to Princess Luna and was still struck by her radiant beauty.

Luna smiled at the young man and took a small bow towards him. "Hello, Sir Sparrow. I didn't expect to meet you here under these circumstances."

Sparrow took a bow as well. "neither did I, your majesty. My brother, Hawke told me a little about you."

"Ah yes, Twilight has sent me letters to me and my sister, Celestia about you and your relations with Hawke," Luna said. "She described you as a brave young man like Hawke, but it seems you have more....knowledge than he does."

"Well, I'll admit that he doesn't use his brain that much, but he does surprisingly have a lot of wisdom behind that skull of his," Sparrow explained.

"Indeed he does," Luna agreed. "If you'll pardon me, I must take some disciplinary actions against Blueblood." Luna then walked away to deal with Blueblood.

As Luna was walking away, Sparrow couldn't help but stare at the beautiful mare walking away graciously in her silk robes with her back revealed letting her wings spread openly and soon he was looking down at her-

'WAIT A MINUTE! I SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT THAT!' he ferociously thought as he was violently blushing. He turned to the opposite direction of Luna's and quickly walked away.

Luna took one last glance back at Sparrow and a small smile crept on her face. 'I still got it.' she thought.

After a few hours, Twilight's and Hawke's friends had to go back to Ponyville with the exception of Spike and Sparrow staying with them. Sparrow was in his and his brother's room; unpacking his clothes and putting them in a drawer. Hawke came in and had a smile on his face as usual.

"Hey squirt, I believe you have visitors that wanted to meet you," Hawke said, stepping aside to reveal Luna and another mare with her,

Sparrow blushed a bit when he saw Luna again, but he was more focus at the mare that was standing next to her. She was a white coated, alicorn mare like Luna except that she was taller than her and had four different shades of colors in her mane and tail. She had magenta colored irises that showed authority in them but also gentleness.

"Greetings, my little human. My name is Princess Celestia, but you may just call me Celestia if you wish," she said in a calm, motherly voice.

"Or you can just call her Tia for short," Luna interjected.

Celestia let out a giggle. "Or you can call me that too."

"Of course, Pri- I mean, Tia. It's a pleasure to meet you," Sparrow said, giving a bow to the princesses.

And they in turn, gave a small bow to Sparrow. Celestia looked over to Hawke and said, "I am so glad you were able to come back as you could, Hawke. As ambassador and guardian, I need your help with the Griffons again."

"What will you have me do, your majesty?" Hawke replied.

"Now Hawke, we have been good friends since you came to my lands, you don't have to be so formal towards me," Celestia said.

"Twilight might disagree with me on this, but as a gentleman, I must always address a lady as such," Hawke said.

"Then why would you give Twilight such a hard time?" Luna asked, knowing the answer.

"Well, she is my marefriend after all and it's my job as her boyfriend to give her a hard time," Hawke explained. "Also, it's fun."

"Quite," Celestia agreed, giggling. "I'll explain to you the details later, but for now Twilight is distress right now and as her boyfriend, you need to attend to those needs."

"She's stressing about the Summer Sun Celebration isn't she?"

"Indeed," Luna answered.

Hawke gave out a sigh. "Sparrow, don't wait up for me. This is going to take a few hours," he said and walked out of the room.

"Will it really take that long?" Sparrow asked the princesses.

They both let out giggles. "He's just kidding," Luna answered. "Hawke really cares for her and even if it does takes hours, it not because he's being force into it. He's there simply because he wants to be there for Twilight and she wants to be with him as well."

"It is so true, sister," Celestia agreed. "If would excuse me, I must rest for tomorrow and be prepared for the Summer Sun Celebration." She then took a bow and left the room.

It was now Sparrow and Luna that were left in the room and Sparrow was feeling a bit nervous with Luna because of the way she looked to him. She was simply stunning her long, dark blue royal gown and her long flowing hair that looked beautiful with the way looked like the star-filled skies of the night. Luna smiled at him. "You know it's rude to stare at a lady for so long without saying anything."

"W-What? Oh um, sorry I was just....distracted," Sparrow replied, blushing.

Luna let out a giggle. "It is alright. I also wanted to say again that what you did earlier was very brave, but please next time let one of the guards, us, or your brother handle it. Though I prefer that you find us or the guards for Hawke has a very little grudge against Blueblood."

"Really? I can't imagine Hawke holding a grudge on anyone."

"Well, Blueblood did try to court Twilight from Hawke."

"Okay, never mind. I can see Hawke pounding him for that."

The both let out laughter.

After laughing for a few moments, Luna took a small bow towards Sparrow and said, "Well, I must leave. I have nighttime court to take of right now. I'll see you tomorrow at the Summer Sun Celebration."

Sparrow took a bow and replied, "I'll see you then, Princess Luna."

Luna then left the room and it was just Sparrow by himself. He let out a sigh and took a quick look around the room to see that he was done unpacking. He jumped on top of the bed and laid there as he was about to go to sleep. As his eyes were closing, he heard a very peculiar voice talking to him.

"Why, hello there!"

Sparrow shot his eyes open to see a figure laying right on top of the ceiling as it was mimicking Sparrow's position.

"Name's Discord."

"....WWHHHAAAAAAAA!"

End of Chapter

Rise of a New Hero: Part 2

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 4
Rise of a New Hero: Part 2

Last Time....

"Why, hello there. Name's Discord."

".....WWHHHAAAAAAAA-"

And Now....

"-AAAAAAAA-"

*THUD*

"OW!"

Sparrow fell over the bed after his unexpected guest was floating over his bed. For a moment he felt dazed but quickly stood up to look back at the ceiling to see that no one was there. He shook his head violently for a second and looked back but there was still nothing. He placed a hand on his head rubbing away the pain on top of it.

"Huh? Must have been my imagination," Sparrow said to himself.

"Oh, I think not," a mysterious came from behind.

Sparrow's eyes widen and looked right behind him to see the same figure sitting next to a table with a cup in his hands. "WWHHHAAAAA!" he shouted once more.

Sparrow took a few steps back, but accidentally tripped over his feet and started to fall. But at the last second, he was caught mid-fall by a chair and was brought next to the table across the figure that was using it. He was still in shock, but was able to take a good look at the intruder that was in front of him. He was obviously a tall, old looking man with grey skin and a goatee under his chin. He had two different horns on his head with left ear looked normal but the other was like that of a horse's. Had two wings on his back that were a pegasi's and a bat's and on his left a normal arm and on his right a lion's arm. His legs were both that of a dragon's on his right and a goat's on his left. He was wearing a long, brown overcoat that had several pockets that were poorly stitched together and a white, cotton shirt under it with brown pants. He also had on a pair of round, slightly shaded glasses over his yellow eyes with red irises.

With his left hand a cup appeared out of nowhere and he placed it in front of Sparrow. "Do you happen to like coco?" he asked, receiving a nervous nod from Sparrow. "Ah, splendid. Would you like any marshmallows with that?" Sparrow thought about it for a moment and gave out another nod. With a snap of his finger, small marshmallows appear within the cup and were bubbling from the heat of the sugary drink.

Sparrow slowly grabbed the drink and took a sip. It tasted amazing to him. It was like tasting something new all over again and it was not too hot or too cold. He started gulping down the cup enjoying every moment of it. He stopped drinking it and let out a satisfied sigh. Then a thought popped into his head. "I'm sorry, but what was your name again?"

"Discord, you know, spirit of chaos, former ruler of Equestria about almost a thousand years ago, and master of pranks. Surely you've heard of me, right?"

Sparrow shook his head.

"Hmm, should have expected Twilight not to tell you a thing, but Hawke? I thought we were best buds," Discord complained.

"You know my brother?"

"Oh, yes. I met him after I was freed from my stone prison," Discord explained.

"Wait, stone prison?"

"I'll explain another time or Twilight will," Discord said. "Anyways, I remembered when Fluttershy first gave me a dinner party with all the others, including your brother, and of course being the master of chaos and pranks, I played a few tricks on them and your brother couldn't help but snicker the whole the time. But he lost it when the fish shaped pot shot out it soup at Twilight. He laughed out loud when it happen. Of course, Twilight smacked him in the back of the head after that."

"Sounds like something that would happen to him," Sparrow commented. "So why are you here?"

"Oh, where are my manners? I just came to see the younger brother of one of my best friends and was just wanting to meet you," Discord explained.

"Oh, well alright. My names is-"

"Sparrow, is it?"

"How did you-"

"Know? News travels fast now a days. Plus, Fluttershy writes to me," Discord answered.

"Okay?"

"Well, I need to go."

"Already?"

"It's been a long day and even an old spirit like me has get some sleep every now again," Discord said. "Oh and one more thing."

"What?"

Discord snapped his fingers again and a little black box appeared in front of Sparrow. Sparrow reached out for it but hesitated for a moment. Sparrow wasn't entirely keen on taking a random object from someone he just met. He shrugged off the feeling and grabbed the box. It was no bigger than his hand and felt hard.

"Open it when you're in need of help," Discord said and disappeared to thin air.

Sparrow looked to where Discord had disappeared from and looked back at the box. And looked where Discord was. And looked back at the box again. He furrowed his brow and only one thing occupied his mind. "What the heck just happened?" he said out loud.

After a long night of sleeping in his bed, Sparrow's eyes slowly began to open up. He looked over to his clock and towards the outside window to see the moon still. He shrugged and went back to sleep, only for his eyes to shot wide open and looked back at his clock to see that it was seven-thirty in the morning. He looked over to the other side of the bed to wake Hawke up but he wasn't there. 'What the? Where is he? Did he really stay up with Twilight all night?' he thought to himself. He got out of bed and went over the window to look at the moon carefully. But when he went over to it he didn't just see the moon in the air but also the sun was up in the air as well. 'Is this normal?' he thought himself again. He quickly changed out of his pajamas and wore a similar outfit like his last one and headed out to find Hawke.

"HAWKE? TWILIGHT?" Sparrow shouted, knocking on the door as hard as he could. The door opened and Hawke came rushing out to see his little brother standing there.

"Sparrow, what is it?" Hawke asked, concernedly.

"Hawke! The sun and the moon they're-"

"Yeah, we know," Hawke said. "And no this isn't normal. Something must have happened last night."

"Hawke, is that Sparrow?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, it's me," Sparrow answered.

"Oh good, I've been hearing panics outside of the castle," Twilight said. "I've been figuring out why this is happening."

"Maybe Tia and Luna know where they are," Hawke suggested.

"Good idea. Hawke, I'm going to see where Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are. They might know what's going on," Twilight said, walking out of the her room.

"Uh, Twiliy?"

"Yes?"

"You're still in your nightgown."

Twilight's eyes widen and she looked down to see that she was still wearing a see through black gown showing her pink panty and bra. Her face lit up violently red and she screamed. "KYYYAAAAAAAAA!" She rushed past Hawke and Sparrow and closed the door behind them.

"*Sigh* She really needs to pay attention to things like that," Hawke commented.

"Yeah," Sparrow said, blushing. "Soooo, you never came back in the room last night."

"Yeah, Twilight really needed some comfort," Hawke said."She didn't like it when all her friends had to go back to Ponyville."

"I can understand that," Sparrow said. He then raise an eyebrow. "By comfort, do you mean-"

"I meant cuddling," Hawke replied.

"Ah, I see," Sparrow said. "Wait, how long were you with Twilight again?"

"For about a year."

"For a year?"

"Yeah."

"During all that time, have you ever....well, you know."

"Know what?"

Sparrow cocked his eyebrow at Hawke. "You can't be serious right?

"What do you mean?"

"I know when you're playing dumb, Hawke," Sparrow said.

"Fine, you caught me," Hawke said, waving a hand. "No, Twilight and I never had...well, you know."

"Really?" Sparrow said in surprised. "You've been with her for a whole year now and tell you the truth bro, you seem like the kind of guy that would jump at the chance." Hawke cocked his eyes on Sparrow. "Well, you kinda do," Sparrow said in his defense.

"I guess I can understand why you would think that, but I'm not that type of guy," Hawke said. "I love Twilight with all my heart. I don't have to give myself to her to prove that."

"But I thought that was prove between two lovers?"

"When you're married!" Hawke said, seriously. "Why does everyone think it's so important to do it now?! They can easily wait until after they marry the person they want. If you do it with some random person, it's meaningless. And what if the person you love doesn't love you back and leaves you after you done it, what then? You're heart would be broken and you gave a piece of yourself to someone that doesn't deserve it!"

Sparrow paused for a moment to process what his brother said. "So wait, you think will leave you after she does it with you?" he asked.

"No," Hawke said. "I'm more afraid that I would if I did."

Sparrow looked up to Hawke with a surprised look on his face. "You? Why would you think that?"

"I don't know," Hawke simply said. "But people can change after doing something new and different. I'm no exception to that rule."

Sparrow paused for another moment. "Have you ever talked to Twilight about it?"

"Well, no. Tell you the truth, I'm afraid of what she would think if I wanted to wait or that my idea of waiting would be idiotic to her," Hawke confessed.

"Hawke, back home you told me to be honest with everyone the best I can, right?"

"Yeah?"

"Now, I'm no expert on having a relationship or anything like that."

"No doubt there."

"I'm trying help you. Do you want it or not?"

"Sorry."

"Anyways, I think you should talk to her about it. I mean, she's in the relationship too, right? It would be unfair for her if you're not talking to her about it," Sparrow suggested.

Hawke looked at his brother with a bit of surprised in his expression, but he smiled at him and placed his hand on top of his head. "You know, Sparrow. You've grown up a lot since the last time I saw you."

Sparrow put on a smug smile on him. "Well, believe it or not. I learned a lot from you."

The two brothers laughed. Twilight came walking out of her room with her royal robes on and wearing her element crown.

"Alright, we can now-" Twilight stopped as she was seeing the two brothers laughing. "What are you two laughing about?"

"Oh, it's nothing, sweetie," Hawke replied.

"Well okay, if it's nothing then we better go find the princesses," Twilight said. "I'll go find Spike, you two can meet us at the main hall."

"You got it, Twiliy," Hawke said, giving a small salute.

"You can count on us," Sparrow said.

After Twilight had gotten Spike and met up with the brothers, they went to search for the princess as they were meeting with nobles and citizens around the castle wondering what was going on. Eventually, they got the news that the princesses had vanished out of thin air and that Ponyville was under attack from the Everfree Forest. After that, Twilight and Hawke flew to Ponyville with Spike riding on Twilight's back and Sparrow doing the same with Hawke.

"There's Ponyville!" Spike shouted. The town looked fine from where they were, but as they were getting close to it, they saw black vines with thorns on them around the town.

"What the heck are those things?" Sparrow asked.

"I don't know, but something tells me we're going to find out," Twilight said as they were getting closer to the library.

"Uh, Twilight I think you need to slow down," Hawke said.

"I'm trying to, but I'm still getting use to these wings," Twilight replied. She was flying at top speed towards the library and when she was getting too close to it, she used her teleportation spell to go inside the library. Unfortunately, Spike wasn't teleported like Twilight and slammed on to the outside window.

The brothers winced when they Spike smack into the library's window.

"Oh, that's gotta hurt," Hawke commented.

"No kidding," Sparrow commented.

Hawke landed down on the ground gently and Sparrow jumped off of his back. They went over to Spike to see if he was okay.

"Hey Spike? Are you okay?" Hawke asked.

Spike just gave out a groan.

"Raise your right thumb up if you're okay."

Spike raised a thumb.

"Alright, he's okay," Hawke stated.

"Ummm, he raised his left thumb," Sparrow pointed out.

"I'm sure it means his super fine," Hawke said. He grabbed Spike and flung him on his shoulder. "Let's head inside and help Twilight."

"Eeeh, okay?"

After Twilight explained the situation to her friends and Hawke having to slap Spike out of being unconscious while Sparrow pointed out that it would have been easier and less painful that they could have dumped water on him, she and the others set out to summon the spirit of chaos himself. But before Sparrow could join them, Hawke whispering something to Rarity and Applejack and they all nodded in some kind of agreement.

Hawke walked over to Sparrow and knelt down before him. "Hey, I need you to do me a favor."

"What is it?" Sparrow asked.

"I need you to go over to Applejack's place and keep Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo company while we're gone," Hawke explained.

"What? Why can't I come with you?" Sparrow complained.

"It's too dangerous for you to come along," Hawke said. "I would never forgive myself if anything ever happen to you."

"I can take care of myself just fine," Sparrow argued.

"Like you did with that blob?" Hawke pointed out.

"You don't know how capable I am," Sparrow said. "And how would you know? You've been gone for whole year and didn't bother trying to come back!"

Hawke's eyes widen with shock. There was a sharp pain in his heart as it was filled regret and sadness in it. There was a moment of silence between the brothers. "Sparrow, I-"

"Know what? Forget it, I'll head to Applejack's," Sparrow said, walking away from his brother. "I first, I was happy to see you alive. But now that I think about, you were alive this whole time while I had to go through a whole year of hell just to get over you dying. I bet you had a good reason for staying here, then coming back home to your family." He walked on further away from his brother and whispered something under his breath, "And me."

Hawke just stood there watching Sparrow walk away until he disappeared from his sight. He lowered his head in shame as a single tear came from his eye. The girls and Spike stood away from him having their heads down after hearing all that and felt sorrow for Hawke. Twilight walked over him and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"It wasn't your fault, Hawke," Twilight said. "I'm the reason why you came here in the first place."

"Twilight." Hawke turned to face Twilight. "You're the reason why I'm still alive. If you hadn't tried that spell, I would have remained dead for all we know." Twilight's eyes widen with realization. "And I chose to stay here, knowing that I would leave my family behind. I loved them with all my heart, but since I died there I didn't see a point of going back." He then place a hand on her cheek. "And I wanted to be with you and spend my whole live here in Equestria."

There was a small smile on Twilight's face and she laid her head on Hawke's chest. Her smile went away though and looked back up to him. "Do you ever regret it?" she asked.

Hawke looked down at Twilight with a bit of a surprised look, but it soon faded into a smile. "Never," he answered, placing a kiss on her lips.

"Man, this sucks," Scootaloo stated. The girls were all in Applebloom's room trying to stay safe from the black vines that were growing outside of the house. A vine was growing into the room through the open window until Applebloom saw it and slammed the window closed on top of it; cutting it in half.

"Well, that was close," Sweetie Belle said.

"Ah really need to keep these windows closed," Applebloom said. "And what do you mean this 'sucks' Scootaloo?"

"You know what I mean. Your sister, her friends, and Hawke are probably out on some big adventure to save all of Equestria again and would have to use the elements of harmony to do so again and or have to beat some random super villian that they would have to beat......again." Scootaloo explained. "And where are we when this happens?"

"Well, it's either we hide from something or that one time we helped Hawke beat that minatour," Sweetie Belle answered.

"Exactly! Not the part where we helped but that we hide while the other go out and become big heroes......again," Scootaloo said.

"So? We promised our sisters that we wouldn't go out there until it was safe," Applebloom explained.

"But this could be our chance to get our cutie marks!"

"Wait, cutie what?"

The girls turned to see Sparrow walking through Applebloom's door.

"Oh hey, Sparrow," Applebloom said.

"What up?" Scootaloo said.

"Heeeey~ Sparrow," Sweetie Belle sing-fully said without realizing it.

"Hey guys, Hawke sent me over here," Sparrow said. "Like he cares." he hissed.

The girls looked at one another in confusion and looked back over to Sparrow.

"What do you mean by that?" Applebloom asked.

"It's nothing."

"Come on, tell us," Scootaloo demanded.

"I said it's nothing," Sparrow said.

Sweetie Belle then got up from her spot and walked over to Sparrow. She then held on to his hand and looked into his eyes with her sorrowful emerald eyes. "Please?" she said in a low tone voice. "You can just tell me if you want."

Sparrow was taking a back by Sweetie Belle's eyes and started to blush a bit. He let out a sigh and said, "Alright, I'll tell you guys everything."

"And that's what happened," Sparrow said, finishing his story.

Scootaloo paused for a moment, while the other girls were having their jaws opened. "Okay, I think I have two things to say. First off-" She then walked over to Sparrow who was looking confused at her until she-

*SLAP!*

"OW!"

-slapped him across the face.

"What the hay is wrong with you?!" Scootaloo shouted. "That was your only brother you were talking to."

"I know!"

"And second-"

*SLAP!*

"OW! AGAIN!?"

"Don't you dare assume that he dosen't love you! He the most loving and caring pon- eh, I mean person I have ever met (Besides Pinkie.)"

"But did he even try to come back home?" Sparrow asked.

"Did it ever occur to you that he didn't have much of a choice?" Applebloom asked. "Ah mean when he first got here, he was already the town's hero and he did had to stick around because of the whole prophecy thing. He was here for a few months when it finally happened."

"Not to mention, he does love Twilight a lot," Sweetie Belle added. "A lot, a lot."

"Umm, how much lot are we talking about?" Sparrow asked.

"One time during their early dating days, they went to a park and sat at a bench and all they did was just stare into each other's eyes for literally hours," Sweetie Belle explained.

"It was really creepy," Applebloom said, shivering.

"Wow. Bro did some weird things back at home, but he never did anything that strange," Sparrow commented. He then lowered his head in shame. "I guess, I really owe him and apology."

*SLAP!*

"OW! WHY?!?"

"You don't guess, you do owe him an apology!" Scootaloo shouted. "When you see him again, you better make a good one too."

"Alright, alright, I'll do it!" Sparrow pleaded. "Just stop slapping me!"

"Good to hear," Scootaloo said.

"I bet Hawke would be back soon when-" Applebloom was saying until something caught her attention. There was a small glowing light coming from the window and Sweetie Belle looked out to see what it was.

"What is that?" Sweetie Belle asked.

Sparrow looked out the window as well and saw it. The light was getting brighter and closer as it was moving towards- "GUYS GET DOWN!" Sparrow shouted, grabbing Sweetie Belle and ducking behind the bed.

*BOOM!*

There was a huge explosion that made a giant hole in Applebloom's room with pieces of wood and small specks of fire around it. Sparrow and Sweetie Belle peeked over the bed to see the hole with Applebloom hiding on the side of her desk and Scootaloo coming out of the closet with one of Applebloom's bow on her head.

"WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT?!" Scootaloo shouted.

"AH DON'T KNOW!" Applebloom responded.

"HEY! YOU YOUNGINGS BETTER BE QUIET UP THERE!" Granny Smith shouted from down stairs.

Applebloom slapped herself on the face.

Then all of a sudden, four figures came through the hole and each holding one sharp curve-blade with them wearing complete black outfits all over their bodies. Then dark sickly flames came in between them and a fifth figure appeared. He was unicorn stallion that had scars across his face and red menacing eyes and was wearing dark purple robes with his right arm covered in dark metallic armor.

The figure smiled under his hood. "Ah, so this is where the famous guardian's brother is," he said. "You think some one as famous as him would be more careful at keeping the ones he loves close by."

"Who the hell are you and why did you just blow up Applebloom's room?" Sparrow demanded.

"Oh, where are my manners. I'm an old friend of your brother and his beloved Princess Twilight. You may call me, Monnark."

"Wait, Monnark?" Applebloom asked.

"Yes, that is me. The infamous sorcerer that resurrected Tirek back from the pits of tartarus!" He then let out a maniacally laughed.

There was a moment of silence.

"Never heard of you," Scootaloo said.

"What?"

"Yeah, me two," Sweetie added.

"Ah thought Tirek came back to live on his own?" Applebloom questioned.

"NO! I did it! ME! It was all ME!" Monnark shouted with frustration.

"I doubt it," Scootaloo said.

"SILENCE!" Monnark shouted. "I've came for you, the guardian's brother."

"Me? Why me?" Sparrow asked.

"For payback after what your brother did to me!" Monnark replied. "After he defeated my lord and stripped me of my rightful place, I had to spend my time in the prisons of tarturus plotting my revenge against him. Now that you came into the picture, I shall capture you and lure the guardian into a trap in which he would not survive."

"Like I'm letting you do that!" Sparrow shouted.

"Like if you had a choice." Monnark snapped his fingers and the robe figures raise their swords up and started coming closer to him and the girls.

The girls stood behind Sparrow with freights in their eyes while Sparrow was holding out his hands and forming them as fists. As the figures moved in closer to them, Monnark felt a tap on his shoulder.

"Yes, what is-" Monnark's eyes widen when he saw a tall, muscular stallion standing over him with his fist in his hand.

"You're on my families' property," Big Mac said. "Time to take out some bad apples." He then grabbed Monnark and throw him over the group and throw Applebloom's door with smashing sound. "Eeyup."

"GET HIM!" One of the mask figures shouted to the others.

But before they could do anything, Big Mac grabbed two of them and slammed one another towards each other and he throw each of them towards the other two. The young teens cheered for the big stallion for his quick and courage actions. But the cheers were and replaced with gasped when a ray of magic shot on to Big Mac's chest causing him to fly through the hole and landing on the ground with a loud thud.

"Eeeeeeeenope," Big Mac said in a daze.

The group looked back to see Monnark clearing off dusts and pieces of wood on his robe. "Now that we got that out of the way, it's time to get back to business." He then looked over to Sparrow. "You will come with me or your friends here will have a very unpleasant day," he threatened.

The girls once again shivered in fear and Sparrow was beginning to sweat. He felt helpless like when he was with that blob monster that he fought. 'What was thinking? Hawke was right, I couldn't fight that blob. Pinkie would've been eaten by that thing and the town would've been covered in slime. I don't have much choice, I have to give myself to save the girls. I wish there was a way too...wait a minute,' Sparrow thought and started to remember something.

"Open it when you're in need of help," Discords's words echoed in Sparrow's thought. "Oh! I'm in someone else's thoughts beside Fluttershy's! I'm making my way into the world. I think I'll make my appearance in movies now."

Sparrow shook his in confusion and raising an eyebrow. He reached into his jacket's pocket and grabbed the small black box out of it. Out of desperation, he opened the box and a bright light came out of it blinding everyone in the room.

"MY EYES!" Monnark yelled.

In that moment of flash, Sparrow felt something wrapping around his body and soon his outfit was beginning to change. Each part of the light was wrapping certain parts of his body and replacing it with an piece of armor. Around his arms were two silver, metal armbands and his boots were transformed into armor. The light wrapped around his left should and a shoulder pad appeared with a small yellow bird for a symbol. Finally, a sword was attached to his back with a strap around his torso.

"WHAT?!? IMPOSSIBLE!!!" Monnark shouted. "My spies told me that you didn't have any magic!" He then fired a ray of magic at Sparrow.

Sparrow crossed his arms in front of the his face and a golden formed blocking the magic attack.

"W-WHAT?!?!"

Then in a flash, Sparrow ran towards Monnark in high speed and suckered punched him in the face which caused Monnark to slammed into the wall causing a Monnark shape hole. The girls were slack jawed and their eyes widen as they saw what happened. Sparrow paused for a moment and looked at his assortment of armor that he was wearing.

"Wow, this is awesome!" Sparrow said. He looked back at the girls still staring at him. "Ummm, I can explain. You see- OUF!"

Sparrow was interrupted when the girls jumped up to him and crushing him with their hugs.

"That was so awesome!" Scootaloo said. "You were like some kind of hero!"

"No doubt!" Applebloom agreed. "Thank you so much for help us."

"I love you so much!" Sweetie Belle shouted.

Sparrow furrowed his brow. "Wait, what?"

Sweetie Belle blushed. "Uh, I mean, I love the way you look," she said with a sheepish smile.

Sparrow smiled. "Yeah, I really do look cool in this."

Sweetie Belle let out a sigh of relieve but Scootaloo elbowed her and gave her a wink causing her to blush more.

They then heard a loud bombing sound coming from the distance from where the Everfree Forest was and saw that the vines were disappearing as they were turning into dust.

Applebloom looked down to where her big brother was. "Hey Big Mac, are you okay?"

The big stallion looked up from where he was laying towards his littlest sister. "Eeyup," was his responds and laid his head back down on the ground.

After that, there was a flash of blue light and Hawke came out of it with his wings of light still on him. He then yelled out saying, "Sparrow are you.....WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED HERE?" Hawke looked around the house seeing a hole in it and seeing his brother and the girls waving at him. He also looked down to see Big Mac on the ground. Hawke ran over to his side. "Hey are you okay?"

"Eeyup," was Big Mac's responds.

Hawke let out a sigh of relieve and teleported to where the group was. He walked over to Sparrow having a confused look when he was seeing in his brother with some pieces of armor on. "Sparrow, what is going o-" Before he could finish Sparrow jumped up to his brother giving him a hug.

"Hawke! I'm so sorry about what I said," Sparrow said, tears coming out of his eyes. "I didn't mean what I said, it's just....I don't know. You were gone for so long and I missed you so much. I really am sorry!"

Hawke let out a smile and patted on Sparrow's head. "I know and I missed you too," he said. He then looked around the room and saw the other figures including Monnark who was coming out of the hole. Hawke furrowed his brow. "What the?"

Monnark looked over and glared at Hawke. "So we meet again, guardian!" he declared.

"Yeah, so we have.......um, who are you again?"

"WHAT?!?!?!"

Monnark then felt a heavy smack in the back of his head and collapsed on the ground. Everyone looked over to see Granny Smith holding a pan in her hand. "I told you youngings to keep it down," she said swinging the pan around.

Applebloom then smacked herself in the face again.

Hawke once again had a smile on his face. "Don't worry I'll keep an eye on things here," he said.

"Good to hear," Granny Smith said. "Now if you'll excuse me I have ta make some apple pies for Applejack and her friends after saving Equestria again."

"How did you know they already saved the day?"

"They always saved the day, don't you pay attention to anything?" Granny Smith laugh as she was making her way back to the kitchen.

Hawke took one more look around the room. "Is anypony going to tell me what happened here?" he asked.

Sparrow looked over to his brother. "It's complicated, but I think we got the time."

"Can we listen to it too?" Sweetie Belle asked. " I wanna know how you got all that armor from."

The other two girls nodded.

"Sure thing," Sparrow said, taking a seat on the bed with Sweetie Belle sitting next to him and both the girls sitting on the floor while Hawke grabbed a chair. "It all started when i met Discord-"

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Sorry this took so long, guys. Been busy with work and with my other story projects as well. hopefully the next chapter won't take so long. Comment on what you think.

First Day of School

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny

Chapter 5
First Day of School

A week had past since Sparrow defeated Monnark with his new magical armor that Discord gave him and everything in Equestria was once again saved thanks to Twilight and her friends. But now, Sparrow must face a new challenge in life as he struggles to survive against the most horrible thing imaginable.

Twilight's lecture.

Twilight was trying to teach everything about Equestria to Sparrow and wanted to give the young man a well educated process and who would better suited than the princess herself. She had gone over many parts of history in full detail and explained how these events came to be. Unfortunately for her, Sparrow was half asleep most of the lecture as he found it that she was too detailed and would trail off the subject into something else that wasn't necessary to learn. It had barely been an hour since the lecture started and already he wants to drop dead. Hawke was present as well and noticed that this wasn't going to help his brother anyway. He did wanted Sparrow to keep up with his education and Twilight is known to have great knowledge. But the problem was she gets carried away and forgets to make sure Sparrow was paying attention as she was apparently getting caught in her own lecture.

Hawke gave out a sigh and walked over to Twilight. "Eh, Twilight?"

Twilight stopped reading the history book and looked up to Hawke. "Yes, sweetie?"

Hawke pointed over to where Sparrow was sleeping on his desk.

"What, again?" Twilight disappointingly said. "He should be fully awake for this."

"Twiliy, I know you want to teach Sparrow everything but I don't think you're thinking like a teacher," Hawke said.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I'm no expert of being a teacher but usually they plan all this out throughout the entire year and teaches this stuff in small sections at a time. You however are trying to teach him everything in one day," Hawke explained.

"That's not true," Twilight defended. "I'm teaching him everything in one month. It seems reasonable"

Hawke furrowed his brow.

"Fine, Mr. Smarty Pants. What do you suggest we do?" Twilight asked in a mocking voice.

"We can send him to an actual school with Miss Cheerilee?" Hawke suggested. "I mean, Miss Cheerilee has plenty of experience teaching kids and he would be with the crusaders for most of the day while making new friends."

Twilight's ears lowered. "I know, but I really wanted to teach Sparrow everything I know and it seemed like a good idea." She looked back at the sleeping Sparrow. "At least, it was at the time."

Hawke smiled and gently hugged Twilight. "Well, I think you got what it takes to be a good teacher. I just think you should learn how to teach somepony properly before you could do it." He then placed a kiss on her cheek. "But if you want to, you can still help him with his homework. That'll give you some ideas of how to be a better teacher."

Twilight's irises grew with joy as small sparkles of stars twinkle in them. "You're right! I can't believe I never thought of that before!" She then gave her beloved a hug. "I love it when you when you come with such great ideas."

"I know, its such a rare occasion for me to come up with something that good," Hawke said.

"That's not true," Twilight said. "You always come up with such great ideas. And I would still love you even if you didn't do most of the planning anyway."

"It's always been your sort of thing," Hawke said.

"That's true," Twilight agreed. "You know what we should do?"

"What?"

"We should plan to go out sometime. We haven't been on a date for a long while ever since I became princess because of all those meetings Celestia wanted us to come to and I had to make sure you be attending those meetings as well," Twilight explained.

Hawke rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish smile. "Yeah, I really should start going to those meetings on my own. And I think that's a great about us going out again."

"So what should we do then?"

"You know what? Let me do the planning. You don't have to do a thing, just give me sometime and I'll make the wait worth it," Hawke suggested.

Twilight smiled. "Alright, I'll let you do that." She then turned back to Sparrow as he was still sleeping. "I'll go over to the school sometime today and let Miss Cheerilee know that she's going to be having a new student coming to her school. I should probably wake him up too while I'm at it."

"Nah, let him sleep," Hawke said. "He's going to be busy this afternoon."

"What makes you say that?"

"From what he told me, he's going to be crusading with the crusaders."

"Celestia help him," Twilight dreadfully said.

-The Next Day-

Sparrow yawned as he was walking alongside Hawke early in the morning. Tired as he was, Sparrow was excited to go to school with crusaders and was glad to get away from Twilight's lecture. He had nothing against Twilight about, in fact he pretty much liked her being with Hawke, but her teaching him was a very big pain. The school was now in view and Sparrow looked over to his brother.

"Thanks for walking with me, bro. I appreciate it," Sparrow said.

"No problem, little dude," Hawke replied.

"And thanks for getting me out of Twilight's lectures too."

"I've been through those lectures myself and god help me if I let anyone else suffer the same fate."

"That's good to know. So did you come up with anything for you and Twilight's date?"

"Nothing yet, but I'm sure I'll come up with something at the end of the day."

"Did you talk to her about your situation about having s-"

"No, but I was going to talk to her about it when the date was over. I thought putting her in a good mood would help," Hawke said.

"That sounds like a good idea," Sparrow said. "Well, I'll take it from here, bro. If I come up with anything for your date, Ill let you know."

"Thanks, but I'm sure I'll come up with something before then," Hawke said. "Have a nice day at school and do what Miss Cherrilee says, okay?"

"Okay."

Hawke patted Sparrow on the head and walked away in the opposite direction from the school. Sparrow looked over to the school and saw all the other children walking into it or were playing around the playground. He let out a big breath. "Alright, lets do this."

"Good morning, class," Cherrilee said, greeting her students.

"Good morning, Miss Cherrilee!" the class said, greeting their teacher.

"I'm glad to see everypony here, because today we have a classmate that will be joining us."

All the students started to whisper and murmur excitedly to one another.

"What'cha think the new kid gonna be?" Applebloom asked her friends.

"I don't know. Usually we would somepony new would come here. You know, because of Pinkie Pie," Scootaloo said.

Sweetie Belle tapped her chin a couple of times and let out a gasp. "What if it's Sparrow!" She had a bright smile on her face.

"Ah don't want ta disappoint you but I'm pretty sure Twilight would teach him anything that she would know if he needed it," Applebloom pointed out.

Sweetie Belle let out a sigh. "Yeah, your probably right."

"Now I want you all to be on your best behavior and gave him a warm welcome to our school," Cherrilee said.

"Yes, Miss Cherrilee," the class responded.

Cherrilee faced towards the entrance. "Mr. Sparrow, you can come in now."

Sweetie Belle's eyes widen.

Coming out from the entrance was Sparrow who had a small smile on him and still had his backpack on his back. There was a moment of silence in the room and he looked over to Miss Cherrilee who had a smile on her. He then looked back at the class and said, "Umm, hi."

"YES!"

Everyone looked at Sweetie Belle with a surprised look as she shouted out and was standing up with her arms raised up. She suddenly realized at what she did and looked around to see everypony looking at her. She started to sweat a bit with nervousness and blushed. She slowly sat back down on her seat and was looking down at her table. "Sorry," was all she could say at the time.

Applebloom smacked herself in face and Scootaloo whispered over to Sweetie Belle, "Smooth." Sweetie Belle just laid her head down and covered her head with her arms.

"Umm, that's an interesting way to greet somepony," Cherrilee said. "Sparrow, why don't you tell us about yourself and pick a seat in the class."

"Alright," Sparrow replied and faced the class. "Well, my brother is Hawke that some of you already know."

"That so awesome! What is he like in person," Snips asked.

"Umm, he's a very nice guy?"

"Interesting," Snips said nodding at the answer.

"We already knew that!" said a girl with a pale purple mane with a white streak having a small tiara on her head. She then looked over to Sparrow. "Can you tell us about yourself? I'm very interested to find out," she asked giving a wink and twirling a strand of hair with her finger.

"Oh,no," Applebloom whispered quietly.

"Crud! We forgot to tell Sparrow about Tiara," Scootaloo whispered back.

"If that b**** tries anything-" Sweetie Belle started to say until she looked over to her friends to seem them with wide eyes on her. "I mean, if she tries anything, I'll tell on her," Sweetie Belle corrected herself. Her friends continued staring at her. "He's like my second crush, okay! I don't know how to act!"

"Fair enough," Applebloom said.

"I guess that makes sense," Scootaloo commented.

Sparrow continued to tell everypony about himself the best he could. After that, he was looking around the room for a seat and saw one that was available right next to Sweetie Belle, who had a very bright smile on her. Sparrow was about to head over there until he heard someone call his name.

"Hey Sparrow, why don't you sit over here with us?" Featherweight said sitting next to Rumble and Pipsqueak with a empty chair near them.

"Sure, why not?" Sparrow said and sat next to them.

Sweetie Belle twitched her right eye and smacked her head against the table.

"-And that's how Star Swirl the Bearded gain the title 'the Bearded,'" Cherrilee finished her lecture.

"Wow. And you would've thought it had something to do with his beard," Sparrow commented.

"Yeah, me too," Rumble added.

The school bell ranged.

"Alright class, it's time for recess," Cherrilee said. "When recess is over, we'll be going over some basic algebra and finish class today with a science lesson."

Everypony nodded and started making their way towards outside.

Sparrow was sitting on top of bench table as he was surrounded by several ponies that were asking him all kinds of questions like, 'Are you really Hawke's brother?,' 'What's it like in your world?,' and 'What's it like being a brother to a hero?' Sparrow tried to answer their questions the best he could while trying to stretch his knowledge to its limits. The crusaders were watching all this from another bench table across from where Sparrow while Sweete Belle was laying her head down depressed.

Scootaloo looked at Sweetie Belle with a deadpan expression. "Sheesh, you really need to stop mopping," she said.

"It's just not fair," Sweetie Belle replied. Her words muffled by the table. "Why would he sit with a bunch of random colts, when he could have sat with us?"

"Ah'm pretty sure it's because he sees us all the time at the farm and is a member of our crusaders." Applebloom explained. "His just trying to make some friends here."

"I guess that makes sense. I'm just worried that he'll stop hanging out with us if he finds more colts like him."

"I somehow doubt that," Scootaloo said rolling her eyes. "What I'm more worried about is Tiara being all friendly to him."

"Yea- Wait, what?!" Sweetie Belle lifted her head up and looked over to see where Sparrow was and saw Tiara sitting right next to him having her hand on his. Her eyes squinted with anger and clenched her hands tightly. "She's dead." she hissed.

Scootaloo and Applebloom once again looked at Sweetie Belle with worried eyes.

"I mean figuratively," Sweetie Belle explained, sheepishly.

"I don't think so," Scootaloo said. "I think we need to have a talk about this when we're back at the club."

"Ah agree," Applebloom nodded.

Sweetie Belle let out a defeated sigh and continued to watch what was going on.

-Sparrow's View-

Sparrow was sitting on a bench with a lot of the other students surrounding him and asking him questions. He felt like he was the most popular kid in school. Though honestly, he didn't really like it that much. Hawke would always be the guy that would like to hang out with a bunch of people and always will try to make himself the center of attention, except when it's suppose to be someone else chance at being that attention like at a birthday party or some other special event. He was more of a loner type of guy and if he wanted to hang with others he would just stay in a small group of at least two or three people at a time. This was just making him all kinds of nervous. And Diamond Tiara wasn't making things anymore easy.

"So are you like a prince or something like that?" Tiara asked. See what I mean.

"Well, no not really," Sparrow replied. "I asked what position my brother had and he said that he was an ambassador for Equestria and just has a high status in the nobility branch."

"But doesn't he like, date Princess Twilight?"

"Yeah, but he would have to be married to her to be a prince."

"Would that make you a prince?"

"I guess so, yeah. It depends on how they handle royal linage here I guess."

"Well, I think a colt as handsome as you should be a prince. Anything less is unacceptable," Tiara said. She then placed her hand on Sparrow's. "So do you have a marefriend?" she asked.

"Ummm, well....no," Sparrow replied nervously.

"Would you like it if I was?" Tiara then got closer to Sparrow's face and was having a sly smile.

"It's a tempting offer but I'm not really that interested," Sparrow replied.

"What?!" Tiara shouted. "You do know that I'm one of the most popular ponies around here, right?"

"You are?" Sparrow asked, confusedly.

"Yes!"

"Even if that's the case, I don't really know you that well. I mean, I would like us to be friends but it is kinda too soon to be in a relationship with a random person," Sparrow explained. "Plus to be truthful, I'm already interested in someone else."

"WHO!? Who, can you possibly like more than me!" Tiara demanded.

"I rather keep that a secret right now," Sparrow said.

"Fine, whatever," Tiara said getting off the bench. "Let's go Silverspoon, I'm not interested in hanging out with a loser." She then walked off with her friend leaving Sparrow and the group of students

Some of the other just shrugged and left Sparrow alone except Featherweight, Rumble, and Pipsqueak.

"She's crazy! You're even more popular than she is!" Rumble said.

"Although she was never that popular anyway," Pipsqueak pointed out.

"Yeah......Why do we listen to her?" Featherweight asked wondering about his question. The other two shrugged.

"It's okay guys, I didn't take her seriously," Sparrow said.

"That's good to hear," Rumble said. "So who is it that you like?"

Sparrow blushed a bit. "I-I just said that so she could get off my back."

"Liar," Featherweight said. "I know when somepony is lying. Trust me, I'm chief of the journalist club."

"Come on, tell us! We're all friends here, right?" Pipsqueak stated.

Sparrow looked at the three colts that were eyeing him down with curiosity. He gave out a defeated sigh. "Mmmf."

"What?"

"Swmmf."

"You have to be clearer than Pipsqueak," Rumble said.

"HEY!"

"Alright, it's Sweetie Belle!" Sparrow quietly shouted while flustered.

"One of the cutie mark crusaders?" Featherweight said. "Why do you like her?"

"Well, it's because she's sweet, nice, and, to be truthful, she has the most beautiful eyes that I have ever seen," Sparrow explained.

"Why don't you ask her out then?" Rumble asked.

"I want to, but I have no idea where I would take her to."

"How about the carnival that's coming next week?" Rumble suggested.

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, the carnival. You didn't know about it?"

"Well no, I did get here quite recently so I wouldn't have heard anything about it," Sparrow explained.

"That makes sense," Rumble said.

"Alright, I'll take Sweetie Belle to the carnival," Sparrow declared as he was standing up. There was moment of silence the group and nobody was moving a muscle.

"Ummm, are you going to ask her then?" Pipsqueak asked.

"Yeah.......I am," Sparrow replied. His forhead was beginning to sweat a bit.

"She's sitting right over there," Feather wight pointed out.

"I know."

"Then why are you standing there?"

"I'm.....I'm too nervous," Sparrow confessed.

The three slapped themselves in the face.

Much of the school day had passed and it was now time for all of the students to return to their homes. Sparrow talked with his friends for a few minutes and made his way back to his and his brother's home. Along the way though, someone was shouting out his.

"SPARROW!"

Sparrow looked to see Sweetie Belle running up towards him. He stood still while Sweetie Belle was trying to catch her breath.

"Is something wrong, Sweetie Belle?" Sparrow asked, concernedly

"No, ever things fine," Sweetie Belle said slowly as she was still catching her breath. When she was better, she had small blush on her and tried to look Sparrow. "I was wondering if you were going to the carnival next week."

"I was sort of having some plans for it," Sparrow replied. "Why do you ask? Do you want me to come with you and the others there?"

Sweetie Belle's blush increased. "Well, yes and no."

"Huh?"

"What I meant to say was-" Sweetie Belle had her eyes closed and gulped. "Would you like to go out with me there?"

Now it was Sparrow's turn to blush and he froze up for a moment. "Y-Y-Yeah! Sure, I would like to go with you there," he replied calmly as he could.

Sweetie Belle had a wide smile on her. "Really!?" she asked happily.

"Yeah."

"O-Okay," Sweetie Belle simply said. "Oh! You need to have your brother talk to my parents about this. They said that it was okay for me to go out with a colt while we have a chaperone with us, so they need either Rarity or Hawke to do it next week. If you don't mind that is."

"Sure, it's no problem. I understand."

"Great! I'll see you tomorrow at school then," Sweetie Belle said. She gave Sparrow a light hug and started skipping along the round while she was humming happily to herself.

Sparrow had on a smile as he was walking his way back to his home and he was looking forward for what was in store for him next week with Sweetie Belle.

Sparrow got back home happily without any trouble and opened the front door. When he walked inside however, he saw that his brother, Hawke banging against the dinning room table while sitting down. In the back of Sparrow's head, he knew that Hawke would only do this whenever he has a hard time coming up with ideas and remembering this morning's conversation he had a pretty good idea what it was about. He let his bag down on the ground and went over to sit right next to Hawke.

Sparrow let out a sigh. "You didn't come up with an idea for Twilight did ya?"

Hawke slowly raised his head up showing the red mark on his forehead. "Yup."

"You do know that it's been one day, right?"

"I know, but I really wanted to do something special for my Twily very soon," Hawke replied.

"Well, I found out that there is a carnival next week. You can take to that," Sparrow suggested.

Hawke's eyes quickly widen up with shock. "Wait, there's a carnival?!?" he asked, confusedly.

"FINALLY!!!"

Hawke and Sparrow looked out an open window with Pinkie standing outside of it.

"Pinkie? What are you doing here?" Sparrow asked.

"I've been following Hawke all day giving hints to take Twilight to the carnival!" Pinkie explained.

"You did?" Hawke asked.

"Yeah and I have to tell you, you're not that observant of a pony," Pinkie said. "This is basically what happen-"

It was late morning and Pinkie was working in the kitchen of Sugarcube Corner making a new batch of cupcakes. She was in the super happiest mode as she could be as she was working in the greatest place in Ponyville. She then heard the ringing bell coming from the store counter.

"I'll be there in a second!" Pinkie announced, cheerfully. She removed the new batch of cupcakes out of the oven and bounced over to the counter. "Heya friend, how can I- Oh, Hey Hawky! Whatcha doing here today?"

"Hey Pinkie, I was just coming by to see if I can have some of your bagels today," Hawke replied.

"Well lucky for you, I just made a fresh bakers dozen of them a few minutes ago," Pinkie said.

"Alright, I'll take'em," Hawke said. "I also needed your help on something. Do you have a minute?"

"Of course, Hawky. Just give me a few minutes and I'll help out." Pinkie bounced back to the kitchen to finish up some of her duties and to grab Hawk's order. After a few minutes, Pinkie came over to where Hawke was sitting while he was waiting and placed the box of bagels inf front of him. "Here ya go, Hawke." Pinkie took her seat across from Hawke and rested her arms on the table. "So what did you need my help with?" she asked.

"Pinkie, you've been great with helping me with taking Twilight on dates, right?"

"Yupper do! Been telling ya to take her to all the best places in Ponyville," Pinkie replied.

"Will I need your help again," Hawke said. "I'm taking Twilight for an extra special date and I need your advice on where to take her this time."

Pinkie was making a humming sound as she was tapping her chin a few times. "Sorry, I got nothing," She replied giving a shrug.

"I think that's a perfect- Wait, what?!" Hawke said, dumbfounded.

"Sorry Hawky, but I got nothing today."

"You can't be serious right?" Hawke said, worriedly. "You always come up with the best ideas. In fact, I was positive you would never stop coming up with any ideas at all."

"Well I'm sorry, but I don't have anything," Pinkie said. "Guess you're on your own on this."

Hawke let out a defeated sigh. "Thanks anyway, Pinkie. Kinda wish you would've help out a bit more though."

"You can't expect me to always watch your back, Hawky," Pinkie said putting more effort into the word back.

"Yeah, you're right. I have to be the one to come up with this. If I want it to be anymore special, then I have to be the one to come up with," Hawke declared. "Later Pinkie, I'm going to walk around town for a while."

"Alright. Hope you come back soon," Pinkie said still putting more effort into the word.

"I will, thanks." Hawke grabbed his box of bagels and went out the front door.

Pinkie let out a sigh as she was disappointed that Hawke didn't catch her meaning when there was a poster of the carnival right behind him. Pinkie would have told Hawke right away to do that, but he had asked her so many times that she knew that he needed to stop doing that and to start thinking of ideas for Twilight so he wouldn't be too depend on others when it comes to coming up with dating ideas.

Pinkie got up from the table and removed her white kitchen robe. In one sudden moment, she spun around and she was now covered in a black latex ninja outfit. "Mr. and Mrs. Cake! I'm going to spy on Hawke again!"

"Alright deary, just make sure that you don't give him a heart attack again," Mrs. Cake replied from upstairs. "And come back before four! We need you to watch the twins while we're going out to make a delivery."

"No problem!" Pinkie shouted back and used a smoke bomb to make herself disappear.

In the streets of Ponyville, Hawke was just walking while he was thinking of places to take Twilight. He thought about taking her to Canterlot and treating her to one of the best restaurants there, but the nobles would probably bother them with trying to gain favor with them, so that wasn't much of a choice. He would've taken her out of the country to somewhere nice and exotic, but it seemed like an overkill for a date and he was saving that for more long term if they both get married or....move things along with relationship quickly. Plus he was using this date as a chance to talk to her about that anyway.

As Hawke was walking, in the nearby bushes Pinkie was wearing her camouflage suit that matched the same colors as the leafs and had a pair of binoculars in her hands. She looked through them and a wide small appeared on her. "Target sighted," she said quietly and hid back within the bush.

Hawke was about to go by a neighborhood but before he did, Pinkie quickly grabbed some of the posters for the carnival, a bucket of glue, and a large brush. She brushed the walls with glue and place the posters to cover them. After she was done, she hid in a nearby trashcan and took a peek to see her progress. When Hawke was about to go by, he had his head lifted towards the sky and watched it while he was moving. He kept on pondering on what to do and thought looking up in the sky might give him an idea. He walked by all the posters and finally let his head down in defeat.

Pinkie stayed hidden until Hawke was out of sight and she slapped herself in the face. "Well this is going to be harder than I thought," she said to herself. As she was climbing out of the empty trash can, she accidentally stepped into the bucket of glue and her feet were trapped in it. "Ah oh." She tried to wiggle the bucket off of her but it was stuck on her and caused herself to trip and fell into a nearby dumpster.

"-And that pretty much had the day went," Pinkie finished.

"Wait, you kept on gluing posters all day?" Sparrow asked.

"No, I kept on falling on the dumpster all day!"

Both Hawke and Sparrow raised an eyebrow.

"After I did that, I tried using hot air balloon with a big sign hanging on it but Hawke was looking down on the ground and I accidently fell into the dumpster again."

"FROM THE AIR BALLOON!?" Sparrow panicked.

"Don't worry, this stuff happens all the time," Pinkie cheerfully said.

Sparrow looked at Hawke with a worried expression.

"It's true," Hawke simply stated.

"So after that, I tried putting up a billboard, dressed up as a spokesmare, placed ads on the newspaper, I even hired the wonderbolts to fly up in the sky to write 'The Carnival is Next Week!'" Pinkie explained.

Sparrow looked at Pinkie confusedly and looked over to Hawke. "How did you not notice any of that?" he asked.

"Didn't know we had a billboard, I don't trust what spokes people have to say, I only read the newspaper for the funnies, and....what time did the wonderbolts came in?" Hawke asked.

"They came around two."

"Yeah, I was at home at that point," Hawke finished.

"Hmmm, should have stopped at that point," Pinkie said to herself.

"Anyways, I really think the carnival is a great idea," Hawke said. "I'll go over to Twilight's and see what she thinks about it."

"Hey Hawke , there was something I needed to-"

"Man, she's going to love this idea so much!" Hawke proudly said.

"That's great, but I need you to-"

"Not now, Sparrow. I need to head over there asap."

"Did you just call him a sap?" Pinkie asked.

"No Pinkie, it means 'as soon as possible.' Asap," Hawke explained.

"Well I think you're a sap!" Pinkie accused.

Hawke rolled his eyes. "Well anyways, I'm heading out."

"But-"

Before Sparrow could say anything, Hawke went out the front door immediately and closed it right behind him. Sparrow gave out sigh and was left alone with Pinkie.

"So how was your first day of school?" Pinkie asked.

"It was good. I made a few new friends there."

"That's great! You can never have too many friends," Pinkie exclaimed.

"I know, it's great to get to know somebo- I mean, someponies here."

"So what was it that you wanted to talk to Hawke about?" Pinkie asked.

"Well um....Sweetie Belle asked me to join her at the carnival and her parents wanted either Rarity or him to watch over us," Sparrow explained.

Pinkie eyes widen up. "WHAT!?! SHE ASKED YOU OUT?!?!"

"Y-Yeah, she did."

"OH MY CELESTIA, THIS IS AWESOME! I have to tell everypony about this!"

"Wait, What?! No, you don't have to-"

Before Sparrow could finish, Pinkie jumped through the same window she came in and disappeared from sight. Sparrow let out an irritated sigh and looked up to the ceiling. "Why doesn't anyone let me finish?" he said to himself. He laid his down on the table and closed his eyes for a moment. A small smile crept on his face as he was thinking about what was going to happen next week.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Here it is guys, I made it offical now. SparXBelle
Hope everypony enjoys it!

Oh and also, new cover for the story!

Double Date

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 6
Double Date

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville and it was five days til the carnival would be open to the public. Hawke was at Rarity's boutique talking with her about who would be watch over Sweetie Belle and Sparrow and was enjoying some her famous hot chocolate. Of course it wasn't anywhere near as good as Pinkie's but there something about drinking it out of a fine cup that made it more special to him. They were both sitting down in the kitchen on the dinning table.

"Oh Hawke, it is so good that you could and visit," Rarity said. "We really should get start doing this again."

"I would, but I always have to go to those noble meetings a lot and it's not easy trying to find new places to hide from Twilight," Hawke explained.

Rarity let out a giggle. "Well, you know her. You always do give her a hard time with that."

"I do what can," Hawke happily said.

Rarity mentally rolled her eyes and took another sip of her drink. "So what do you think of Sparrow and Sweetie going together at the carnival? Don't you think that they're a bit young."

"I don't think so," Hawke replied. "I was around that age when I started to go on dates."

"You went out with others before Twilight?"

"By went out with others, you mean never? Then yes," Hawke replied.

Rarity giggled a little. "I can tell you that Twilight feels like the luckiest mare whenever she's with you," she said. "So which one of us is going to watch over them?"

"Well, Twilight and I are going to the carnival together for our date. I kinda thought you wouldn't mind watching them."

"I would, but I promised Spike that I would go along with him," Rarity explained.

"And you're going as friends, right?" Hawke asked.

"Well, yes," Rarity replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Oh nothing," Hawke nonchalantly replied. 'You still have a long way to go buddy,' Hawke mentally said to himself.

"I suppose I could watch over both Spike and them while we're there, but it wouldn't really feel like a date to them if they were mostly surrounded by friends and not with another couple."

'Ouch,' Hawke mentally said. "you know now that you mention it, I think they should come along with me and Twilight. We can show them both how they should act on a date," he suggested.

"That's a splendid idea!" Rarity said. "Just promise me that you won't frequently show your affection towards Twilight like you did the last time we went to Manehatten."

Hawke blushed a bit and had on a sheepish smile. "Yeah, I'll try to keep my lips to myself while we're there."

"That's good to hear," Rarity said. "Now if that's all we needed to talk about, I need to get back in making some new designs I've been working on."

Rarity was about to sit up until Hawke spoke up.

"Wait, Rarity."

Rarity looked at Hawke with a concern expression. "What is it, dear?"

"Well, it's just......I needed to talk to somepony about this and I kinda thought you would be an expert in this field," Hawke explained.

"In what field?" Rarity asked but she didn't need an answer when she saw Hawke beginning to blush and was sweating quite a bit. "Oh, I see," she said blushing as well.

"I'm not saying that you do it often," Hawke quickly said. "I'm just saying that you might know about it in a general way than experience," he clarified.

"Not to worry, deary. I know exactly what you mean," Rarity said. "Do you think it'll happen between you and Twilight soon?"

"Tell you the truth, I hope not," Hawke replied.

"Really?"

"Don't get me wrong. I love Twilight with all my life and soul, but I'm more of a commitment kinda guy," Hawke explained. "I like to save myself until marriage."

"Ah I see. Well Hawke, I am most thankful that you're that kind of stallion," Rarity said. "There are a lot of stallions out there that would take advantage of this opportunity and would just go for it without considering the mare they're with. So what brings this up?"

"I was planning on talking to her about it after the date and I was hoping that you might give me some advice on how to handle the situation," Hawke explained. "Also if things go ugly, can I spend night here for a couple of days while hiding? I'm afraid Twilight might try to kill me after what I have to say."

Rarity mentally rolled her eyes. "Hawke, that's nonsense. Twilight wouldn't hurt you in a million.....Well, I mean that she wouldn't do anything life threatening besides hit you in the back of the head because you made a joke that annoyed her to no end."

"It was kinda worth it."

"But we're getting off track," Rarity said. "The point is Hawke, you know she loves you as much as you love her. Talking about these sort of things shows that you both trust each other and are welling to make the other happy if both sides agree to it. Just saying yes to it isn't going make the matter any better and it'll make it like you didn't have much of a choice to begin with. Trust me when I say that Twilight isn't going to stop loving you if you want to wait until you're both married. Talking to her about it is something that she needs to hear."

"Wow. Thanks Rarity, I really needed to hear that somepony," Hawke happily said.

"You are quite welcome, it's what friends do," Rarity replied. "Now in case you both do do it, I have some recommendations that I think would help."

Hawke expression turned blank. "Wait, what?"

"You didn't expect me to just leave it to you two to just figure it yourselves, did you?," Rarity explained. "Now first is protection-"

'Oh god.'

The day had finally arrived and it was evening time in Ponyville as the carnival was now open. Everypony was there enjoying a great time there as they were playing the games and the rides the carnival had and eating food that it provided.

Among the ponies that were coming in through the entrance was both Sparrow and Sweetie Belle as they both looked around excitedly around at all the games and rides. Right behind them was Hawke and Twilight holding hands while they both were wearing the necklaces they gave to one another. Hawke's necklace was in the shape of Twilight's cutie mark star while Twilight's was in the shape of Hawke's mark.

Twilight leaned over to Hawke and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "This was such a good idea, Hawke," she said, happily.

"I'm glad that you like it," Hawke said. "I'm sorry that we're not exactly going to be doing this date by ourselves."

"I don't mind. I enjoy spending sometime with your little brother and I don't mind chaperoning him and Sweetie Belle," Twilight replied.

"I'm glad that you don't mind and don't worry, I'll keep a close eye on them," Hawke said, confidently. "They won't get away without me knowing about it."

Twilight looked around for a moment and gave Hawke a deadpan expressions. "Okay, so where are they?"

Hawke had a blank look and quickly looked around to not see Sparrow or Sweetie Belle anywhere. "Ah crap."

Twilight began to laugh. "It's okay, they're over there," she said, pointing.

Hawke looked over to see the two looking at some of the prizes at one of the carnival games. He let out a sigh of relieve while Twilight was still giggling.

"So is there anything you want me to win for you?" Hawke asked.

Twilight smiled and looked around to see what she wanted. She then laid her eyes on a large doll that looked like a puppy. "How about that one?" she replied.

Hawke looked over to where the doll is and saw the game next to it.

"Step right up and test your real strength folks!" the owner of the game said. "Put these two anti-magic rings and play the Hi Strkyer! Ring the bell and get yourself a huge prize! Only two bits."

Hawke put on a devilish smile. "That's it? No problem." He gave the owner two bits and placed the rings on each hand. He grabbed on to the hammer and felt that it was heavier than it looked. He raised it up as high as he could and slammed it down hard. The puck went off at a fast rate but it slowed down and was about a feet away from the bell; falling back down to the lever.

Hawke had a disappointed expression and Twilight gently patted him on the back. "Don't worry about it, sweetie. No pony is that strong."

"Yeah, you're right," Hawke said. "What are the chance of you even getting-"

*DING*

"WINNER"

Hawke and Twilight looked over to see Sparrow win the game and giving Sweetie Belle the large doll. Hawke had his mouth wide open and Twilight was trying not to laugh so hard.

The time they spent together there at the carnival was fun as they were playing all sorts of games and eating some of the most delicious food in all of Equestria. One of the places they went into was a mirror house and saw they were in different shapes and sizes. Hawke was in front of one that made him look short, Twilight's image showed her very thin, Sweetie Belle's showed her being fat and was blushing with embarrsment, and when Sparrow was looking at his, he showed him as a tall, handsome, older version of himself. Sweetie Belle's eyes turned into hearts when her eyes laid on Sparrow's image while Twilight was laughing at another of Hawke's shock expressions.

The food they were having was delicious and enjoyed having the cotton candy the most. While they were eating them, Hawke decided to make his in to a beard causing the others to laugh as he was stroking it like as if it was real.

They even went to one of the magic shows there and the one pony Twilight didn't expect to see was Trixie herself performing. Trixie was doing all of her magic tricks and spells while amazing the crowd. Sweetie Belle and Sparrow were watching with awe, Hawke was pondering on who Trixie was and tried to remember something important about her, and Twilight just watched the show smiling at the reformed magician.

The group also saw many of their friends there as well and saw how they were having so much fun.

Hours had past and it was getting late for the town of Ponyville. Many of the carnival stands were closing and were ponies were going back to their homes and rest. As Twilight and Hawke were taking Sweetie Belle home, Rarity and Spike were stopping by them. Rarity offered to take Sweetie Belle back home with her and Spike would walk along with Sparrow back to Hawke's house. They all agreed and went their separate ways.

In the back of Hawke's mind, he knew this was his chance to talk to Twilight about the relationship between them. He suggested that they would walk through the park for a bit and Twilight agreed. After walking for a few minutes, they saw a bench and decided to sit down with Twilight laid her head against his shoulder. It was a quiet night for the two and the stars that Luna had set up was beautiful.

Hawke looked back down at Twilight after looking at the stars. "Did you enjoy the carnival?" he asked.

"Yes. It was more fun than I imagine it would be," Twilight said. "I still think it was sweet of you to watch over your brother and his date."

"It was no problem," Hawke replied. "So what was your favorite part of it?"

"Mine was when we saw the little Star Swirl museum they had," Twilight replied. "So what was your favorite part of carnival?"

Hawke gave a smile. "When I was with you," he replied and gave Twilight a peck on her cheek.

"Awww, you're so sweet. I love you, Hawke."

"I love you too, Twilight."

They both gave the other a tender kiss on the lips. When their lips were free from each other, there was silence between the two. Hawke looked in to Twilight's eyes as they were sparkles of stars in them. He let out a mental sigh. "Twilight, there's something I-"

The next thing Hawke knew was Twilight had placed a finger over his mouth. "Actually there's something I need to say," she said. Hawke furrowed his brow. "There was something I needed to talk to you about and I think now is a good time."

Hawke was now confused. "What is it?" he asked.

"Hawk.....have you ever thought about me as more than a friend and a marefriend?"

"Of course I do, you're more than anything I ask for," Hawke replied. "I love you with my soul and I am more than willing to prove it in anyway."

"That's just it, you say that but I feel like the one thing I want to ask for is something you wouldn't like," Twilight said.

Hawke didn't at first understand Twilight's question. But it soon started to click together and was beginning to blush. "Oh, you mean-"

Twilight nodded. "Yes and don't think about trying to pretend what I mean."

Hawke's eyes were filled with shock. "You knew?"

"Hawke, we've been together for a year. You're very observant of things than you claim and you're just as smart as me. You just like to fool around is all," Twilight explained.

Hawke let out a sigh. "Yes, I pretend not to understand what you say about 'it' and I'm sorry."

Twilight gave out a small smile. "That's okay, I forgive you. Just tell me one thing: Why?"

"Listen Twilight, I'll be as honest I can," Hawke said. "So don't interrupt me and let me finish, okay?"

Twilight understood and nodded.

Hawke inhaled deeply. "I do want to **** you."

Twilight's eyes widen.

"I want to **** you so bad. You literally drive me crazy everyday of my life and I really want to rock your world. My hormone levels are on an unbelievable scale that I didn't think a human being, like me, could have. There hasn't been a moment of my life that I want to be on a bed with you and undress you as fast as possible."

Twilight eyes were filled shock, confusion and surprise as her mouth was hanging down.

"But! That's me as a guy would think and that's just natural. Why I haven't done so is because I listen to what my heart tells me to do. And it's telling me to wait until we're married and show the mare I love that I don't care for her physically, but because I care her as herself and that's what I love about you Twi. I love you for you."

A tear came from Twilight's eye and she wrapped her arms around Hawke's neck as she pressed her face against his chests. "Hawke, that was...the most romantic, very very blunt but romantic nevertheless, thing you have ever said!"

Hawke let out a weak laugh. "Yeah, I could have worded that better."

"Yes, but you did make your point," Twilight said.

"So, you're willing to wait then?"

Twilight wiped away her tear. "Yes, I'm willing to wait."

Hawke smiled. "I'm glad to hear it." There was a moment of silence between the couple. "So what do you want to do now?"

"How about this," Twilight said.

Before Hawke could say anything, Twilight pressed her lips with his once more but with a bit more assertive to it. They both enjoyed every sweet moment of it as their tongues dance around with one another. When they both broke from their kiss a strand of saliva was caught between the two's lips. When they both looked at it, they were surprised at it but started laughing. They nestle with each other with Hawke having his arm over Twilight's shoulder and Twilight resting her head underneath Hawke's neck while they both held hands.

"This was the perfect night," Twilight commented.

"Yeah, it was," Hawke replied.

"I wish it was like this everyday," Twilight said closing her eyes as she was getting tired.

After hearing Twilight say that, an idea popped in to Hawke's head and looked down to see Twilight had fallen asleep. The idea kept on plaguing him non stop but it wasn't something that he wanted gone. In fact, he wanted the idea to come true. "Maybe it can," he softly said to the mare of his life.

Far away in the dead of night on top of a high hill was a figure wrapped in dark robes and was looking through his telescope watching Hawke carry a sleeping Twilight away in his arms. The figure stopped looking through the telescope and his eyes were glowing fiery red in them.

He chuckled under his breath. "Soon Hawke, I will have my revenge and will destroy everything you hold dare. Including the mare you love and your brother." A wicked smile crept on his face. "Or should I say 'our' brother."

The figure turned away from his target and proceeded to enter in to the Everfree Forest.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Hope you all like it
Please leave a comment about what you think about it

Next chapter is going to be about the villains now!

Returning Evil (Edit)

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 7
Returning Evil

In the highest tower of the castle of Canterlot, Princess Celestia watches over the kingdom of Equestria while night has consumed the skies. She had a worried expression on her that had plagued her for a while and kept a watchful eye over her home. Walking behind her was her sister, Luna.

Luna approached Celestia with a puzzled look. "Sister, will you not be resting tonight? You have an important meeting with some of the nobles tomorrow," she said.

Celestia looked over Luna. "I'm sorry, Luna. I had not planned to stay up for so long, but I sense that something is amiss," she explained.

"What do you mean?"

Celestia once again looked back to her kingdom. "I feel like as if a darkness is growing. One that is of anger and hunger for power. Can you not sense this as well?"

"Truth be told sis, I have," Luna replied. "It's something familiar and yet different from what we've encountered."

"I'm afraid to say this but I believe I may have an idea of who it is," Celestia said.

"Who?"

"Do you remember Hawke's doppelganger?"

"Vulture? But he's been gone for more than a year. Many presumed that he eventually died because of the lack of magic he possessed after Hawke and Twilight were able to take it from him."

"We've only 'presumed' that he died, but we never found a body nor have we find any traces of him," Celestia said. "Perhaps though I maybe over thinking this and it could be nothing."

"Even so, should we have our guards keep an close eye for any signs?" Luna asked.

"That would be wise," Celestia replied. "And I'll see if Twilight and Hawke can track down Vulture one more time. Twilight would no doubt will use a spell to track Vulture's position and Hawke can handle anything he might throw at them."

Celestia and Luna both nodded towards one another and went back into the castle.

Deep within the Everfree Forest, a figure in dark shredded robes walked through the fogged woods as he was headed towards an unknown destination. He soon came upon a large boulder that seemed to be connected against a large hill. He raised his hands out from under the robes to reveal a black metallic gauntlet with claws for each finger and pointed it towards the boulder. The glove soon was covered by dark red aura and the boulder was also doing. The robed figure used a levitating spell to move the large rock out of the way and revealed a cave behind it. The figure proceeded to walk into it and he lit his right hand with a red glow to see through the dark cave.

He ventured through the cave with only his magic to light the way. Drips of water came down from the stalactites that hung over the top into small pools of water. Sounds of bats could be heard and large tarantulas crawled around the walls near their nest of webs and their victims. The figure paid no heed to them and was unfazed by their appearance.

While walking, the figure unknowingly stepped on a pressure stone and small darts started firing out of the walls. The darts were closing on their target but were deflected by an invisible shield around him and they dropped to the ground.

The figure groaned under his hood. "Was that it? I expected better than this," he said to himself sounding disappointed and continued walking through the cave.

He soon find himself in a large room that had lit touches on the walls surrounded by four large statues that looked like knights each having different weapons in their hands. One of the statues held a large double blade sword, the other had two curved giant swords, one with a long mace and the last had a pole arm ax. On the far opposite side from the figure was set of stairs that led up to a pedestal. On it was a amulet that had two black wings and a head of a unicorn with red eyes and a large red gem in the center of it.

The figure smiled. "At last. The Alicorn Amulet." He took one step towards the center and light flickered underneath him. A large circular symbol with smaller symbol on it started to appear with blue energy glowing. Four different lines started to head towards the statues and they were soon covered in blue light that made them look like they were glowing cracks. Their eyes glow with the same colors and were now alive and moving. They surrounded the figure with their weapons up and waited for a moment to strike.

"That's more like it," the figure happily said. He grabbed his robe and threw up into the air reveal himself. He was a human with long, black and red colored hair and flaming orange eyes with red markings around them. He was wearing a dark red coat with orange flames around at the bottom of it and underneath it was a black shirt. He also had black pants with dark metallic boots and had dark metallic gauntlets. It was no other than Vulture himself, the evil double of Hawke. With his magic he summoned a curved sword with the blade colored black as sin and the hilt was crimson blood.

The statue with double blade was the first at Vulture and came spinning backwards with the tip of its blade pointing at Vulture. Vulture quickly ducked out of the way and did a back flip. He landed on the ground on while he knelled down and used his magic to dash towards the statue. In one instant Vulture slashed passed the statue and came to a full halt. A few seconds had past and the statues head came off and the rests of its body came tumbling down.

Both statues with both the mace and the ax came running towards him on the side. At the same time they both made an attempt to strike a blow at Vulture but he vanished out of thin air and their weapons collided with one another. Vulture appeared over them and did a split kick at both their heads. They both stumbled back from the impact of the kicks and Vulture quickly stabbed the statue with mace in the torso afterwards releasing a large surge of energy that engulfed into the blade and caused the statue to exploded into pieces. The ax statue recoiled and charged towards Vulture. Vulture however, swung his blade towards the charging statue and released a wave of red blazing energy that, on impact, disintegrated the upper torso and all that was left was the legs that fell to the ground after standing their for a few seconds.

Vulture looked around the room for a moment and didn't see where the fourth statue went. He let out a sigh and his weapon disappeared. When he did that, the last statue came out of the shadows from the top of ceiling had two of its swords pointing down towards Vulture. However, it was engulfed in red aura and was now floating in the air. It kept on swinging its at him none stop as Vulture was using his magic to levitate the statue. With a flick of his wrist. Vulture sent the statue flying through the air and was impaled when it landed on a stalagmite. The statue struggled to get out of the stalagmite but failed and soon became lifeless as the glow of blue energy left its body.

"Now where was I?" Vulture mockingly said to himself while smiling. "Oh right, the amulet."

Vulture walked up the stairs and looked at the amulet with anticipation. 'With the powers of the amulet I can regain all the power I have lost and more. My vengence against Hawke will be swift and all that stand in my way will fall!' he thought to himself. As he reached for the amulet, a boomerang came out of nowhere and struck his arm causing him to wince in pain. "Argh! What the?-"

The boomerang continued to spin around the room until it reached back to its owner's hand. Standing their was a zebra having grey fur with dark gray stripes around her body and a circular symbol of her mark on her left shoulder. Her mane was grey with white stripes having it tied into pony tail with strands of hair on each side of her face. She was wearing only a brown chest piece with a skirt with the same colors. It was Zecora.

"If you think you would gain something today, you are most horribly mistaken," Zecora said.

"Zecora, it's so nice to see you again," Vulture sarcastically said. "Especially since you blinded me and helped Hawke out after our first fight."

"You tried to hurt my friend and I did what any friend could do," Zecora retorted. "Now leave this place. The amulet of which you seek is too dangerous for anypony to use."

"That's what I was hoping for," Vulture said, grinning.

Vulture's hand glow red with fire and threw it over to Zecora. She quickly dodged out of the way and pulled out a wooden blow dart. She placed in a dart and fired it at Vulture but at the last second, he quickly grabbed it with both his index finger and thumb that was just an inch away from his face. He once again grinned and flicked the dart away.

"Is that all you got?" Vulture asked. But when he looked to where Zecora was, she disappeared.

The next thing Vulture knew, he was kicked in the back by Zecora and fell down the stairs. When he was near the bottom, he reached with his right hand placing it on the ground and did a flip back on his tow feet. He looked up to see that she now had a wooden staff in her hand. Vulture held out his arm and his blade once again appeared. He jumped high into the high and tried to slash Zecora right in the center but she slightly moved to the left causing him to miss. In one instant, she jabbed him in the chest with her staff and spun around to strike him in the back of the head. Vulture stumble forward and smacked his head towards the pedestal. He quickly looked behind to make another attempt at attacking her but saw her brought her hoof towards him and was kicked across the face. The forced kick send Vulture against the caves's wall and collasped on the ground with his sword dropping from his hands.

Zecora pointed the staff right at Vulture's head. "Surrender now and no more harm will come to you," she warned.

Vulture grabbed the end of the staff without warning and looked up to Zecora with red energy burning in them. He used metal claws to slashed through Zecora's staff and quickly grabbed her around her neck. Sparks started to appear around his gauntlet and soon he was shocking Zecora with lightning coming out of them. She passed out from the intense pain and Vulture threw her to side.

Vulture looked over to the amulet and grabbed it. He placed the amulet around his neck and surges of energy coursed through his body causing him to be engulf in fiery flames all around his body. "At last! I now have the power to vanquish the Guardian of Equestria!" he declared. He looked back over to the unconscious zebra and grin appeared on his face. "It's pay back time." He walked over to her and his hands roared with flames out of them and he was about to strike her down. But annoyance appeared on him and the flames died away. "You're lucky that I can't do anything to you right now," he said. "If Hawke or anyone else found out about your death, they would know I still live and they would come after me knowing full well that I have the amulet with me." He leaned down towards Zecora. "So I'll just make you forget you ever saw me." He placed a tip of his index finger on her forehead and a small pulse of energy coursed through his finger into her skull. She winced for a moment but relaxed after it had disappeared.

Vulture stood back up and went over to the pedestal. He reached down into his coat and pulled out a replica of the amulet placing it where the real one was. He let out sigh. "Now I have to get the statues back together and get this sack of fur back to her hut," he said to himself.

Zecora's eyes started to flutter open as she felt a throbbing pain in her head. She raised up and looked around to see that she was laying in her bed and that she was in her hut. She tried to remember of how she came to be here but had difficulty as a bit of pain seemed to have made everything blurry. The next thing she knew she heard a couple of knocks on her door.

"You may enter into my humble abode," she said.

The door opened and came walking through it was Hawke. He had big smile on him as he looked at zebra. "Hey Zecora, how are you?"

"Doing well, my dear friend," Zecora replied. "Though I wish this ache would stop in my head." She rub the side of her head.

Hawke raised a brow. "You got a headache? Will you be okay?" he asked concernedly.

"I will be fine, though I am curious as to why you would come here," Zecora said.

"Well I needed a small favor from you if you don't mind," Hawke replied. "You said you where going be gone for a couple of days to look for an exotic plant, right?"

"Yes," Zecora nodded. "I was looking for the rare White Tail flower as it is very useful for treating teeth that are in bad shape. Ms. Colgate asked to see if I would know where such a thing is and luckly for her, I do. Why do you ask and what is this favor of yours?"

"I need you to say that I went along with you because you needed my help for that and to keep Twilight off of my for a few days," Hawke answered.

Zecora raised a brow. "Why would you ask for such a request?" she asked. "I never thought that you would ever want to be apart from the one you love."

"I just needed an excuse to tip her off for a bit while head over to the Crystal Empire," Hawke explained. "I asked Cadence for a favor there and I didn't want Twilight to suspect anything."

"I see. Why haven't you ask any of the others?"

Hawke let out a sigh. "I would have asked the others but they each had a flaw that would ruin this."

"Flaws?"

"Applejack makes a face if she lies, Fluttershy would crack under the pressure, Rarity would gossip, Rainbow Dash isn't good with secrets, Spike is too close to Twilight, Sparrow would blab to Sweetie Belle, the crusaders, heaven knows, would give it away and Pinkie Pie......is self explanatory. But you are perfect! You live out in the forest and you would gone long enough for me to complete whatever task I'm doing," Hawke explained.

"Would you mind that I ask, this is your task?"

Hawke looked behind him through the door for a moment and closed it locking the door. He quickly looked out the windows and closed the shades down and started looking through every drawer in the hut. Zecora couldn't but mentally laugh at Hawke's unusual caution at his surroundings and made her even more curious as to what he had planned.

After looking from under the table, looked at Zecora with a bright smile. "I'm going to the Crystal Empire and Cadence is going to help me find a ring for Twilight," he answered, earning a wide eye look from Zecora. "I'm going to propose to Twilight."

Deep within the remains of the now deceased Tirek's former fortress, Vulture walked through the main entrance and entered the decaying ruins of the fortress. He continued to walk through the hallways of it until he entered into a room with its only source of light was a lit fireplace. Standing next to it was a figure garbed in dark robes.

Monnark expressed a wicked smile. "So glad that you came back as you could, Vulture. Had any trouble getting what you wanted?"

"Yes, that zebra had to make things hard but I got what we needed," Vulture replied and held up the amulet.

"Pray tell, Vulture, what is this plan that you have so far? First, you were able to gain newer dark powers and then freed me and my assassins. Is it some kind of revenge scheme to get back at that guardian?"

"Yes, it is but we still need to wait for the finale part of my plan will fall into place."

"And what is it?"

"The return of our dark lord."

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Edit - Decided to cut Sunset out of the story mostly because I couldn't think of a way to fit her into the story.

Rings and Blessings

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 8
Rings and Blessings

"So let me get this straight," Sparrow said to Hawke as he was packing his clothes and some supplies to take with him on his supposed trip with Zecora in the Everfree Forest. "You're going with Zecora into the Everfree Forest to get some kind flower that Colgate needed and that she needed you to come along?"

"Yeah, pretty much," Hawke replied as he was setting the last of his clothes in the suitcase.

"So why did she ask you to come along?"

"Because she needed some protection and an expert with plants," Hawke explained.

"What? That doesn't make any sense," Sparrow said. "You said that she lived in the forest for a long time and that she knows how to fend off the animals there. Also didn't you say she was a herbalist? And if anyone could help her out more, it would be Twilight."

".......I'll give you five bits if you don't say that to anyone else and stop asking questions."

"Make it ten."

"Deal!"

Hawke and Sparrow shook hands in agreement. Hawke grabbed his suitcase and was walking out towards the door.

"Oh, I should mention this," Hawke said. "You'll be having the whole house while I'm gone. Twilight will be coming by every now and again to check on you. Take care of the house and I'll be back in about two days."

"Got it. Good luck on your trip," Sparrow replied.

Hawke nodded and walked out the front door leaving Sparrow alone in the house.

"Yes! Got the whole house to myself!" Sparrow shouted with joy. "Now I can......Like I always......Wait? I don't even do that much here!" He looked around the house for a moment and stared at the front door for a long period of time. He shrugged. "I think I'll just hang out with the guys."

It was near noon at the Crystal Empire and the train from Ponyville arrived at the train station outside of the city's border. At the station, Princess Cadence who was accompanied by two crystal guards watched as the passengers started leaving the train and was looking for one particular individual. She was greeted by waves and bows from the passengers as they were leaving the train and she did the best she could to welcome them to her kingdom.

After a couple of minutes, she was able to spot the pony she was looking for or person as he would say it. But she was puzzled to see that the person in question was wearing a poorly thought out disguise. Coming out of the train was Hawke who was still wearing his outfit but the only difference now was he was wearing a tan packer hat with a sunglasses over his eyes while sporting on a mustache that covered most of his mouth. She mentally slapped herself.

Hawke removed all of his disguises and threw them in a nearby trash can. He took a few steps towards and bowed. "My lady, Cadence. It's so good to see you again."

"Please Hawke, you don't have to bow to me. We're practically family," Cadence said. "Especially since with your big plans with Twilight."

"You got a point there and thanks again for helping me with making a ring for her," Hawke said.

"You're welcome. I have no doubt that Twilight would love it and the idea behind it," Cadence said. She then raised a brow. "Why were you wearing all those disguises?"

"Pinkie."

"What? Did she find out somehow?"

"No but she was close though," Hawke replied. "Her Pinkie senses must have let her know that I was keeping this a secret and she really loves to know what they are."

"Why didn't you tell her at least and make her do a Pinkie promise?"

"I would but there was one problem with that."

"What?"

"It's her reaction." Hawke then imagined at what would happen if he told Pinkie.

In the mind of Hawke, he imagine the entire town of Ponyville and it was all peaceful and still until-

"WHAT!?! YOU'RE GOING TO MARRY TWILIGHT!?!?!" Pinkie shouted in the town with everypony hearing it.

Cadence let out a giggle. "That does sound like what Pinkie would do," she said. "So when do you plan to propose to her? Surely you wouldn't go through all this trouble if you didn't have some kind of plan for this."

"Yes, I thought this all the way though and decided to pop the question at the end of the Equestrian Games," Hawke replied. "In front of everypony that's there."

"Wow. That's one way to propose to your special somepony," Cadence said.

"I want to make this something that she would never forget," Hawke said.

"I'm sure she would love it," Cadence said. "Does Shinning know anything about this yet? Or their parents?"

"No, not yet. But I was planning on talking to Shinning about it and take the train to Cantrelot to ask Velvet and Night for their blessings," Hawke explained.

"But Canterlot is more than a day's trip, which would give you only a few hours here," Cadence pointed out. "And it'll take sometime to make a ring-"

"Look like I said, I planned this through," Hawke interrupted. "This is the only small window of chance I got and I have to make every second count. With the games coming up within a couple of weeks, I'll more than likely have to help Twilight with all the political meetings, which I hate to go to, try out some new outfits that Rarity wants me to wear to present myself at the games and I just decided to train my brother how to use his magical armor that Discord gave him. There are other things I'm probably missing, but I can handle it when the time comes, so I'm going to be completely swamped."

Cadence just stared at Hawke for a moment. "So......What do you want me to do again?"

Hawke let sigh. "I just need you to help me pick out the perfect ring and let you hold on to it until the Equestria Games. So I don't have to worry about Twilight finding it on accident. Or worse, if Pinkie finds it," he explained. "God knows what would happen if she found the ring."

"I'm sure nothing bad would come of it, but I will hold on to it for you and will make sure that you would give it to her at the games," Cadence said. "Now follow me. We need to hurry if you want to make the trip to Canterlot in time so no pony would suspect anything from you. By the way, how is the staff I gave you?"

"It's doing good, I left it back in Ponyville at my place," Hawke replied. "Tell you the truth, Cadence, I don't know what I could use the staff for. I mean, I could use it to to block but I could bring up a bubble shield for that and I don't see much point to use my magic with it."

"Well, I never did get the chance to explain how we use staffs here," Cadence admitted. "Staffs can be use to help concentrate our magic into the staffs to make it more accurate when release and we can store our magic into it in case we run out of our magic too quickly."

"Huh, I guess that explains why mages use staffs a lot," Hawke said.

"But what makes your staff more unique is that it is a crystal staff and it can make an energy blade from the orb on top," Cadence finished.

Hawke paused for a moment. "Wait, it can do that?" he asked

"Yes, if you can concentrate enough magic into it, it can make an energy blade that you can use to stun your foes and make it more like a lightning blade or a flame blade," Cadence explained.

"Why didn't I find out about this sooner?" Hawke questioned himself.

Hawke nodded and walked along with Cadence while the guards follow them behind. After sometime, they entered into the Crystal Castle and entered into the throne room where they met a young jeweler, named Stylish Ring. She was known as the kingdom's best jewelist and was the one that made the ring that Shinning Armor gave to Cadence. Cadence had ask her to come from Canterlot to help Hawke with making a ring for him and she was more than happy to help.

"Ambassador Hawke," Stylish said with a bow. "Princess Cadence had told me of your plans and I believe I have a few ideas that I believe that Princess Twilight would love."

"I would love to see what you got, Ms. Ring and please just call me Hawke. I'm not so big on titles."

"Of course and thank you."

Stylish had about a dozen ring designs that she had drew up with each of them being unique than the others. Hawke carefully looked at each ring and was impress by them, but what she showed him so far didn't seem to be what he was looking for. As she was on the last design for the ring, Hawke's eyes was in awe of what he was looking at.

The design had the ring having a silver band with a sapphire gem on the settings. In the settings were eight other gems that were followed pattern with four sapphires and four diamond gems around it. In the center of the gem itself, was a amethyst that was shaped into Twilight's cutie mark. Stylish explained that the amethyst wouldn't be seen unless the sun hits the gem just right to give the ring a more magical effect on it.

Hawke greatly approved and believed that it was the ring for Twilight. Stylish said that she would get to work on the ring right away and would hand it to Cadence when it was finished. After thanking and hugging the jewerlist too tightly, Hawke made his way to find Armor.

After sometime, Hawke met up with Armor in his office and the two were talking while Cadence had her ear up against the door to listen in on the conversation. Hawke was nervous about telling Armor his big plan and tried to delay it with nothing but small talk. Eventually he gave up and just told Armor everything. There were a couple of times when he felt like he was going to be strangled by Armor despite the fact Twilight said that he was okay with the relationship. But that thought was soon washed away after Hawke was finished talking and Armor hugged him with immense force and said that he was more than honored to have him as a member of the family.

With relieve, Hawke left the Crystal Empire after he spent some time with both Armor and Cadence and was heading towards Canterlot riding the train. On the way there, Hawke collected together his thoughts on how Twilight's parents would think of the idea. He had no doubt that Velvet would love the idea as she would bug Twilight about getting hitched with him. Though, it might have been something she was just teasing about. Night was like a father to him and he enjoyed all the conversations they had together. Night never had any problems with Hawke and he was glad that he was able to make his daughter happy. But Hawke had a bit of fear that Night might think it maybe too early for a marriage and wouldn't go with the idea for now.

It was one of the things that Hawke had thought of it when he came up with the idea to marry Twilight. He could not deny that they were just together for over a year and they lives have been more busy because of his position as an ambassador and her being a newly crowned princess, but the love he had for her was clearly burning inside of him and he could never stop thinking about her even now. She was the first person he had laid his eyes on and despite the fact that he panicked, she was just as beautiful than she was today. She was his first friend, she was his teacher, she fought along side him, she was his partner at the Gala and danced with him and she was his true love. It was why he wanted her. Because he loved her and she in turn loved him.

He thoughts were stopped when he heard the announcer saying that they were entering the city of Canterlot. He looked at the time and realized that it had been hours since he left the Crystal Empire. He took in deep breath and felt nervous, but at the same time confidence.

Hawke walked along the sidewalk as he was getting nearer and nearer to both Velvet and Night's home. It was late afternoon and the sun was setting near over the horizon. He soon saw the house they lived in and walked up towards the front door. He took in a deep breath and knocked on it a couple of times. He felt that his heart was pounding fast every second that past.

"Just a second," a feminine voice said. The door opened and it was Velvet that was standing at the doorway. She smiled as she was surprised to see Hawke. "Hawke, it's so good to see you," she said. She wrapped her arms around him giving a warm hug and Hawke returned it with his own. "I didn't know you were coming by. Is my little Twiliy with you?" she asked.

"No, I came by myself," Hawke answered. "Actually Twilight doesn't know that I'm here."

"Really? I thought you two would always know where you are, since I hardly ever see you two apart," Velvet commented. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you two were newly weds."

Hawke gulped and let out a weak chuckle. "Y-Yeah, newly weds," he said. There was an awkward pause as Velvet looked at him with a confused expression. "Is your husband here?"

"Night? No, he went to get some groceries for me," Velvet answered. "Are you okay, Hawke? You're acting a bit strange....Well, stranger than usual."

Hawke tensed up for a moment but he took in a deep breath and relaxed. "Velvet, there was something I wanted to ask you for a while and-"

Velvet smiled. "Hawke, I know I'm that good looking but I'm happily married with my husband and I love my daughter too much to snatch away her coltfriend," she teased.

Hawke blushed. "Wait, what?! No, no I mean-"

Velvet giggles at Hawke's shocked expression. "I'm kidding, sweetie," she said, stepping aside. "Why don't you come in? Grab a seat and I'll grab us some tea."

Hawke nodded and walked inside with Velvet closing the door behind him. He looked around the living room and seated himself on the couch. Velvet went into the kitchen and brought out a tray that had three small glasses and a pitcher of tea with slices of lemon in them. She poured the tea into the two glasses and gave one to Hawke.

After taking a sip, Velvet looked over to Hawke. "So what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" she asked. "Is it the reason why you're being so nervous?"

Hawke took a confident sip of tea and sighed. "Velvet, you know how much I love your daughter, right?" he asked. "And that I would do anything to make her happy."

"Of course I do, I've seen the way two are and I've never seen a more perfect couple besides me and my husband," Velvet replied.

"Well, I came here to ask you about something," Hawke said. He took one final breath before he went out with it. "I want to marry your daughter and I want both yours and Night's blessings before I do."

Velvet stopped sipping her tea and looked at Hawke with a surprised expression. There was a moment of silence between the two as she was processing what she had just heard. A smile appeared on her and looked straight into Hawk's eyes. "Hawke, I would be more than happy to give you my blessing. You've always made my daughter happy and I know you will continue to so no matter what. I trust you and never gave me a reason not to."

"Thank you, Velvet," Hawke said. "I'm honored that you trust me with your daughter and I will dedicate my whole life making her happy."

"I know you will," Velvet replied.

At that moment, the door to the house opened and Night came walking in with a bag of groceries in his arm. He walked in to see both Hawke and Velvet sitting on the couch. "Hey Hawke, I didn't expect you to be here," he said.

"Sorry about that, I wanted to let you guys know ahead of time but it was kinda a last minute thing," Hawke explained.

"It's alright, you've been busy with all the responsibilities of being an ambassador. It must be hard to make any time."

"Eh, yeah let's go with that," Hawke nervously chuckled.

Velvet rolled her eyes. She knew that Hawke wasn't busy with any of it since Twilight keeps her inform with the letters she sends.

"So what brings you out here anyway?" Night asked. "It's not everyday that a famous hero and ambassador comes by to meet a everyday married couple in Canterlot."

Hawke hesitated to answer Night's question and looked over to Velvet. She smiled at him and gave him a simple nod. He let out some air and looked over to Night once more. "I actually came over here to ask you something. A very important question that involves Twilight."

Night's expression changed to a serious expression as he heard those words. From the way he could see Hawke's eyes he knew that he was going to ask him the one question that he would eventually have to face. The one question that every father with a daughter feared. He turned to his wife. "Honey, do you mind that Hawke and I go out to the back for a few moments?" he asked.

"Sure, sweetie," Velvet replied.

Night led the way towards the back with Hawke following behind him. When they got to the back they were standing over the edge of the patio's fence. Night looked over to Hawke. "So, what is it that you wanted to ask?" he asked.

"You know how much I love your daughter, right?"

"I do."

"I'll get right to the point, I want to marry your daughter and I want your blessing before I do."

Night was silent for a moment. "Don't you think that you both are young to be getting married? And that you both have large responsibilities with you being an ambassador and her being a princess?" he asked.

"Hawke let out sigh. "I have no illusion that it'll be hard," he replied. "But I'm more than willing to go through that with Twilight. She's means so much to me and I want to make her smile everyday. So I ask you as a man that loves her, will you allow me to marry your daughter?"

"......No."

"W-What? I-"

"Unless, you promise me that you will always be there for her."

Hawke smiled. "I do, I promise to be there for her."

"Then you have my blessing."

Night held out his hand and Hawke shook it.

After the long trip back to Ponyville and throwing away the disguise in case Pinkie was snooping around again. Hawke was walking down the road towards his house. 'Man, it would be so good to be back in my own home again,' he thought to himself. The house soon came into view and it looked like that nothing had happened to it. When he opened the door, he saw his brother, Sparrow sweeping up the floor with a broom.

Sparrow let out a sigh. "Finally, got most of this place cleaned up," he said to himself.

"Eh, Sparrow?"

"AAAAAAAH!" Sparrow screamed when he heard his older brother and turned to show that he was exhausted and his eyes were red from lack of sleep. "Hawke! When did you get here?"

"I just got back," Hawke replied. "What happened here?"

"What? What do you mean? There wasn't a party here!" Sparrow frantically relied giving out a weak chuckle.

"I....didn't say anything about a party."

"Oh, well um-"

"And why is Pinkie sleeping on the floor.......again?"

Sparrow looked down to see Pinkie laying on her back snoring. "She.......came by to visit and had a sugar crash when she eat to much snacks around here."

"Pinkie, had a sugar crash?"

"Yes."

"Sparrow, I saw her eat five bags of sugar one time on a dare and came out unaffected," Hawke explained. "Lost five bits."

"Wait, what?"

"Hawke, is that you?" A weak voice came from the stair and Hawke looked over to see Twilight walking down with her hand on her head showing that she was having a headache. "I don't feel so good."

"Twilight, what are you doing here?"

"I accidentally drank some punch that somepony spiked during the party," Twilight replied. "After that, I can't remember anything else."

"Wait. Party? Spiked punch? And Pinkie sleeping on the floor again?" Hawke turned to his brother with a serious look. "What happened in the last two days?"

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Well, things for Hawke's proposal is under way. So what do you think happened with Sparrow in the last two days?

Party Over Here!

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 9
Party Over Here

After Hawke left Ponyville, Sparrow went over to Sugarcube Corner to meet up with his friends from his class. He was walking through the doorway and saw his friends sitting over by a booth and they were waving at him. He smiled and was about to go sit with them until he felt a crushing force that wrapped around his torso.

"Heya, Sparrow!" Pinkie said as she was hugging Sparrow tightly.

"H-Hey, Pinkie," Sparrow said having difficulty breathing as Pinkie was beginning to crush his lungs. "C-Can you please *cough* let me go?"

"Okie, dokie!" Pinkie let go of Sparrow and he was recovering from her hug as he was breathing in and out. “Can I getcha anything?”

“Naw, I’m fine, Pinkie. I’m just here to meet up with some of my friends here.”

“Oh, that sounds fun. What are you guys going to do?”

“Don’t know yet, that’s what we were meeting up about.”

“Cool. Oh, by the way you remember Hawke saying he was going with Zecora, right?”

“Yeah, why you ask?”

“Well that’s the thing, I thought I saw him over by the train station this morning but I mistaking him for a guy that looked exactly like him only with a moustache and straw hat.”

Sparrow looked at Pinkie with a confused look.

‘DING!’

“Oh, I gotta get that! Byzy dazy, seezy lazy,” Pinkie said and bounced away.

Sparrow scratched his head for a moment what Pinkie was talking about but dismissed it and went to join his friends.

“Hey guys, what’s up?” Sparrow asked.

“Hey, Sparrow. Me and the others here were planning on having a party tonight at my house,” Rumble said.

“Yeah, it’s going to be so awesome!” Snips said.

“Huh yeah, awesome,” Snails agreed.

“Think you can come?” Featherweight asked,

“Wish I could, but not tonight,” Sparrow replied.

“Really, why not?”

“Because my brother gone out of town for the next two days and I have to keep an eye on the house while he’s gone,” Sparrow explained.

“Wait a minute,” Snips said. “Your brother left you in charge of the house?”

“Yeah.”

“The house where he lives?”

“Yeah.”

“The awesomest hero in Equestria lives?”

“Eh, yeah?”

“The place where you can fit hundreds of ponies in and have the wickedest parties ever?”

Sparrow raised an eyebrow. “Yes and no, we’re not having a party there.”

“Why not?” Rumble asked.

“Because he trusts me not to throw parties at his house while he’s gone and leave the place a mess…..Also Twilight will come by every now and again to check in, so she would stop the whole thing before we even get anything ready.”

“Come on, man. We could just throw the party the night before he comes and we’ll help clean it up afterwards. And if we can find a way to keep Twilight from checking in, we can have the party no problem,” Pipsqueak suggested.

“Not to mention, Sweetie Belle might like to come,” Featherweight added.

Sparrow rubbed on his chin and thought about it. On one hand he would do what he thinks is right and would continue to have Hawke’s trust, but on the other hand, he would throw a party since he never really had much of them and spending time with Sweetie Belle was a plus. He then nodded. “Alright, I’m in. What’s the plan?”

“We got all the supplies and guest list ready,” Rumble said. “We just need to keep the princess distracted while we set up for the party after that, we should be good.”

“I think I know such the pony to do so,” Sparrow said and turned his head. “Hey, Pinkie!”

Coming out of nowhere, Pinkie jumped from under the table. “Heya, Sparrow. You need something?”

“Oh, I was just wondering if you would like to come to a party tonight?”

“Oh, I would LOVE to come to a party!”

“Alright, but I need you to do something first.”

“Like what?”

“PINKIE, PUT THAT DOWN!” Twilight shouted as she was stopping Pinkie from grabbing all the books…..while she was covered in caramel.

“What? I thought it looked interesting,” Pinkie said as the caramel from her hands were dripping down on the book’s cover. “Oh, what’s this one about?”

“Could you have done all this without being covered in caramel? And why are you covered in caramel?”

“Because it’s fun?”

“Why did you put that in a form of a question?”

“Because I can?”

Twilight let out a groan.

“Oh, what’s this one?”

“NO, DON’T!”

Sparrow and his friends including the crusaders were setting up for the party and were putting up the decorations, sitting the snacks and drinks and placed the DJ stand. Sparrow was able to ask in a favor from the popular DJ player in Ponyville, Vinyl Scratch to come to the party.

While everypony was setting everything up, Sparrow asked Snips and Snails to set up the disco ball on top of the ceiling.

“A little to the right,” Sparrow directed

They shifted towards the direction.

“A little bit more. Annnnnnnd there!”

“Phew, I kinda thought we would mess that up,” Snips said.

“Um, yeah me too- Woah!”

“Snails! Let go of my jacket! Whaaaa!”

*SMASH!*

Sparrow winced when he saw the two fall down to the ground and rubbed the back of his head while seeing them moan in pain.

“Do ya think this is really a good idea?” Applebloom asked, walking up next to him. “I mean, what if your brother came back early and saw the whole thing going on?”

“I doubt it, but thankfully he would let me know ahead of time before he came back,” Sparrow replied.

“What if he sends a message to Twilight?”

“Pinkie is keeping her busy right now but I ask Spike to set up my backup plan.”

“What is it?”

“Spike, have you seen my journal anywhere?” Twilight asked. “It’s gone from it usual place and I really need to vent out my frustration with Pinkie today.”

“Nope, have no idea,” Spike said as he was holding the journal behind his back. “I wish I could help find it but Rarity ask for a favor and-”

“Yeah, yeah you can go,” Twilight waved Spike away. “I’m sure I can find my journal on my own. It couldn’t have walked off itself…...Unless, Hawke place another spell on it before he left as a prank.”

“Oh, okay. Later than,” Spike said and closed the the main door right behind him. He did a victory bump and ran towards where the others were.

After Spike ran and finally made it to Hawke’s house, he placed the journal in his jacket and walked inside to see that the others were done with the decorations.

“Wow guys, this place looks awesome!” Spike commented.

“Yup, this no doubt going to be the best party ever,” Sparrow declared. “So did you hid the journal away from Twilight?”

“You bet. She’ll never find it until tomorrow.”

“Alright, then let’s get this party started!”

Later that night, everypony from their school came and were enjoying it. They would either play some of the games that were there, hang out with one another or listen to Vinyl’s music that she was playing.

“This party is awesome!”

“Tell me about it, can you believe we’re partying at the guardian’s house?”

“Good thing he had a brother after all.”

“Who want to play spin the bottle?”

“That sounds like fun!”

“Does anypony else need a drink? We still got a lot of punch to go around.”

Sparrow expectations for this party was going well and he believe nothing was going to ruin it.

“Hey, Sparrow,” Sweetie Belle said as she wrapped her arms around his. “I think this was a cool idea you had.”

“Thanks, Sweetie. I’m just glad that nothing bad hadn’t happen so far,” Sparrow said.

“I’m sure nothing will tonight.”

Over by the food table, both Tiara and Silver looked around to see if anypony was coming there way and Tiara had a sinister idea in her mind.

“Alright, hand me the bottle,” Tiara said reaching her hand over to Silver.

“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Silver asked. “We could get in a lot of trouble for this.”

“Not if we're not caught,” Tiara countered. “Besides, this is payback. Sparrow shouldn’t have rejected my offer when he had the chance.”

“But he did have a good point though.”

“Shut up! Just hand me the bottle.”

Silver let out a sigh and handed Tiara a bottle. Tiara poured in the contents of the bottle into the punch and snickered maniacally. “Hehehe, let’s see how popular you get after tonight.”

-2 hours later-

Silver had a bored expression on her and Tiara’s eyes twitched as she saw about everypony had grabbed a drink from the punch and were not acting any different than they should be.

“How is this possible!” Tiara complained. “They should be drunk by now!”

“Maybe the punch had a stronger flavor to it than we thought?” Silver suggested.

“Hand me the bottle!”

Silver handed the bottle over and Tiara looked over the bottle’s label.

“Let’s see, it’s seventy-five percent alcohol- Wait a minute.” Taira noticed a small smug next to the numbers and wiped it away. Her eyes both were wide opened and were filled with anger. “WHAT!? NEGATIVE SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT!? THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE!”

“Oh, so that’s why my parents had it in the open,” Silver said to herself. “I just thought they didn’t have any common sense.”

“GHHAAAAAA!”

“Wait a minute,” Silver took another look at the bottle. “This isn’t even the bottle I brought with me.”

“What? Then where is it then?”

“I don’t know but I’m back to thinking my parents are irresponsible again.”

“Hey, Sweetie are you alright?” Sparrow asked.

“Yeah, I’m just a little thirsty is all,” Sweetie Belle replied.

Sparrow looked around the room and saw a bottle by itself and went to grab it. He then handed it over to Sweetie Belle. “Here, the top is still on there tight so no one hasn’t opened it yet.”

“Oh thanks, Sparrow,” Sweetie Belle said. She opened up the bottle and drank down the contents of the bottle. “Wow, that tasted a little strange and it’s a bit strong too.”

“Hmm, maybe its a strong fruit punch or something,” Sparrow guessed.

“Eh, I don’t mind it,” Sweetie Belle said and took another gulp of the drink. “Hey, is everything feeling dizzy to you?”

“Um, no. Are you sure you’re alright?”

“Don’t worry I’m fine, it’s just-” Before Sweetie Belle could finish she lost her footing for a moment and tripped over to Sparrow. He was able to catch in his arms and she was right up near his face. “I-I-I-I.” She was at a lost for words when she was so close to him and her heart was racing. Without even thinking, she leaned up towards him and kiss him on the lips.

Sparrow was blushing red when she did that and was at a lost for words. One part of him was wondering what was going on, another part was wondering how her tongue tasted like grape and the last part was just saying ‘YES!’ Accepting it, he wrapped his arms around her waist and embrace the kiss.

After for a moment, the two stopped for a moment and stared into each other's eyes.

“Do you, um…...want to come up to my room for a little while?” Sparrow asked, nervously.

“I would love to,” Sweetie Belle replied and kissed him once more.

After the two were done kissing, they both sneaked off with anypony noticing and sneaked up stairs to his room. Applebloom, Scootaloo and Spike, who saw the whole thing, had their mouths wide open and were shocked by everything.

“Ah did not see that coming,” Applebloom said.

“Me neither,” Spike said.

“I kinda expected it,” Scootaloo said as she took a sip of her drink.

Both Applebloom and Spike looked at Scootaloo with suspicious expressions.

“What? I did. It was still a surprise though.”

The three then heard a knock at the door and Applebloom went to see who it was. When she opened it, it was Pinkie Pie standing on the there with a huge smile on.

“Oh hey, Pinkie. You came for the party?”

“Sure did, and I brought everypony else too!” Pinkie cheerfully said.

“E-Everypony else? Like who?”

“Everrypony that I could gather,” Pinkie replied and stepped aside to show dozens of other pony adults including her friends…..Even Twilight who had an angry glare on her.

“Ah oh.”

Twilight walked up to Applebloom and stared down at her. “Where is Sparrow?” she angrily asked.

Applebloom started to sweat. “Um, the pony you’re trying to reach is unavailable right now and would have to leave a message…...beep,” she replied having a sheepish smile on her.

Scootaloo and Spike smacked themselves in the face.

“You know what? Never mind, I’ll find him myself,” Twilight said. “Applejack, I think you can handle it from here.”

“Ya know it, Twi,” Applejack replied and stood in front of Applebloom. “You’re in big trouble missy.”

*Gulp*

“Spike, where is my journal?” Twilight threatenly asked.

“R-Right here,” Spike replied and pulled the journal out of his jacket.

Twilight grabbed the book.

*WHACK*

“OW!”

“That’s for taking my journal,” Twilight said “You’re lucky I have put spells to prevent anypony from reading it.”

“Now where is Sweetie Belle?” Rarity asked. “She’s also in trouble.”

“She went up stairs with Sparrow,” Scootaloo confessed.

“Right, then we shall get going,” Rarity said walking towards the stairs.

“I’ll join you, Rarity. Sparrow is not getting away with this,” Twilight said.

As the two were going up stairs, a thought had occurred in Twilight’s mind. “Hey, Rarity?”

“Yes, dear?”

“What do you think they’re doing up there?”

“I don’t know, maybe Sweetie Belle went to the bathroom and Sparrow may wanted to be alone for a moment or something.”

“You’re probably right. I mean, they couldn’t have-”

The words in Twilight’s mouth died as soon as they entered into Sparrow’s room as both she and Rarity saw Sparrow and Sweetie Belle kissing with their tongues. After a moment, Sparrow and Sweetie Belle stopped and looked with wide eyes to see Twilight and Rarity. Sweetie Belle blushed while Sparrow was starting to sweat with fear.

‘Ah oh,’ was all Sparrow could think of.

“Wh- Yo- GET OFF MY SISTER NOW!” Rarity shouted.

Sparrow panicked and did as Rarity said as he let go of Sweetie Belle and stood five feet away from her with his hands up.

Rarity grabbed Sweetie Belle’s hands. “You and I are going to talk about this when we get home!”

“But-”

“NO BUTS ABOUT IT!”

As soon as they left, Twilight glared down at Sparrow while he had a nervous look on him.

“Soooo, did you ever find your journal?”

*WHACK*

“OW!”

“I’ll let your brother take care of punishment,” Twilight said. She let out a sigh “I need a drink.”

-Present Time-

“So that’s what happened,” Sparrow finished.

“Okay, that explains that but how come it seems like you just finished cleaning?” Hawke asked.

“Pinkie brought everyone’s parents and they dragged them out of the house, so I had to wake up early just to finish cleaning the place.”

“And what about Pinkie on the floor and Twilight having a hangover?”

“I don’t know why but Pinkie just decided she wanted to sleep on the ground for some reason.”

“Yep, it’s true. Even I don’t know,” Pinkie said and took a sip of her coffee.

Hawke and Sparrow rolled their eyes.

“And Twilight drank some of the punch and we found out someone was able to spiked it. We don't know who but we think they were able to do it at the end of the party and Twilight got caught in the crossfire.”

“Yeah, that happen sometimes,” Hawke said.

“So, what are you going to do?” Sparrow asked, nervously.

“Do about what?”

“You know, the party and everything that happen.”

“Nothing.”

“Say what?”

“As far as I can tell, you didn’t really do anything wrong.”

“Whaaaaaa?”

“Oh wow, I didn't see that coming,” Pinkie said as she took another sip.

“For one thing, I never said you couldn't throw a party.”

“Well, yeah but-”

“And the making out with Sweetie Belle, please I saw that coming a mile away.”

“What?”

“While I don’t like the idea of you making out with her in your room while she was under the influence.”

“But I didn’t know!”

“That’s okay, but it should teach you a lesson to think twice about it. Since you’re still fourteen,” Hawke explained. ‘How the hell was he able to get a girlfriend so fast. It took me months just to be with Twilights.’ he pondered. “Anyways, you’re not in trouble.”

“I-I don’t...It...Wh…It just-”

“And don’t worry about Twilight. I’ll talk to her about it and see what I can do,” Hawke said. “I’ll also talk to Rarity about it too, I’m sure she had cooled off by now.”

“Umm, thanks?”

“No problem, squirt,” Hawke replied with a smile. “Now if you would excuse me, I have a hangover marefriend that needs my attention.”

Hawke stood up from his chair and walked upstairs. Sparrow had a dumbfounded expression on him and Pinkie was still enjoying her coffee.

“Wow, I guess you got lucky,” Pinkie said. “Betcha glad to have a brother like Hawky.”

“Tell me about it,” Sparrow let out a relieved sigh. “I guess my life is going to be easy from here on ou-”

“Oh by the way,” Hawke said coming down the stairs. “We’re going to be starting your training tomorrow and its going to be very intense.And Twilight is going to be teaching you magical spells and theories. Even every last detail of it too. So get ready.” He then went back upstairs again.

Sparrow’s eyes twitched a couple of times and dropped his head on the table with a loud thunk noise.

Pinkie was patting Sparrow’s head out of pity. “Look at it this way, at least you stiil got me.”

Sparrow let out a groan.

End of Chapter

Author's Note

Sorry for the long update guys, been busy for the past few weeks. Well, Sparrow is going to start his training. How do you think he's going to do? And when will the Equestria games begin and see Hawke make his move on Twilight?

FIND OUT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!

Games and Proposals

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 10
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.

-One Week Later-

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.

End of Chapter

Brothers Til the End - Part I

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny

Chapter 11
Brothers til the End
-Part 1-

It has been two weeks since Hawke had propose to Twilight and every part of Equestria has been celebrating the wonderful news. Many have sent gifts and congratulatory cards to the happy couple and have been setting up for this once in a lifetime event.

Twilight was at the boutique with her friends Applejack and Dash while Rarity was setting up the wedding dress. Though she was having a hard time with it.

“Rarity, I know that *Inhales* what you’re doing for me is wonderful, but *Inhales* do you have to make the dress so tight?” Twilight asked as Rarity was tightening up the girdle around her body.

“Sorry, Twilight dear, but I must have this around you as best I could otherwise it’ll be difficult to place the dress over you,” Rarity explained.

“Don’t ya think that this seems kinda….overkill?” Applejack asked.

“Of course not, in fact its necessary,” Rarity retorted. “The dress itself is going to be a bit tight around the hip and body. I must make her elegant as a lady for guests but beautiful and awestruck for the groom.”

“Rarity, I think anything would catch Hawke’s eye,” Rainbow Dash said. “As much of a nice guy he can be, sometimes he can be a bit of a pervert.”

“Rainbow Dash! How can you call him that!?” Rarity said. “You don’t have any proof of-”

“He keeps a photo of Twilight in a nightgown under his bed mattress,” Rainbow Dash bluntly replied.

“WHAT!?” Twilight shouted. “I thought I got rid of that picture!”

“Guess he’s more resourceful than Ah thought,” Applejack commented. “Wait, Dash, how did you know that Hawke had that?”

“I got bored when I was over at his house one time and just poked around,” Dash replied.

“Dash, you can’t just go around someone’s house without their consent,” Rarity pointed out.

“He knew that I was poking around and he said he didn’t mind,” Dash explained. “Of course, he didn’t know that I went to his room without him knowing.”

Rarity rolled her eyes and went back into finishing tightening Twilight’s girdle. She pulled on the back strings, much to Twilight’s pain, and was able to tie it in place. She let out a sigh and looked over her work.

“There I think that should do it,” Rarity said. “Now we can start sowing together the dress around you and you will look absolutely beautiful.”

‘Oh what a relieve,’ Twilight thought. “So Rarity, I was wondering, were you planning on making Hawke’s tex for the wedding? It sounds like it would be hard to keep the groom and bride from seeing each others outfits until the wedding.”

“Atlas, I’m afraid that I will be just doing your dress, Twilight dear,” Rarity replied. “As much as I would love to do both yours and his outfit, like you said, it would be difficult to keep you both from seeing one another so I’ll just have to do yours and hopefully Hawke can get somepony else to do it.”

“Does Hawke know about it yet?” Applejack asked.

“I haven’t got the chance to tell him nor has he asked me yet,” Rarity replied. “I’m sure he already figured out that I would do Twilight’s and would go to-”

The door to the room opened and Hawke came walking in while he held up a magazine to his face.

“Hey Rarity, I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind making a tux that’s somehow similar to…...Eh?”

Hawke’s was covered in red as he was looking at Twilight with her girdle on and with almost her entire body was exposed to him. She blushed as he was staring at her intently. Rarity mentally smacked herself for not locking the door and Applejack and Rainbow Dash could help but snicker as they were trying not to laugh so hard.

“I um...think I should….go and…..find someone else to….my….yeah,” Hawke finished and left the room hoping really hard that he wouldn’t get blasted by Twilight in the back.

The door closed and after a moment Applejack and Dash laughed out loud and fell to the ground. Twilight just stood there while her face was plastered with red. Rarity’s eyes twitched and she raised up her hands in a fit.

“AH TARTARUS! Now we have to start from scratch all over again!” she complained.

“R-Rarity, he just saw the girdle. I don’t think we have to worry about-” Twilight try to say but Rarity raised her hand at her face.

“NO! Even seeing one part of the dress ruins everything,” Rarity explained. “Now, We’ll just have to come up with something different. Maybe instead of using white colored dresses, we can use more royal colors for you. Yes, that should work. And while we’re at it, we’ll use more exotic undergarments to go along with it.”

“Rarity, I-”

“Not now, Twilight,” Rarity said as she lit up her horn. “I’m in the zone, as they would say.”

After coming back from the boutique, Hawke walked into his house and saw Sparrow, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and the crusaders sitting around on the table as they were going through letters that were from other ponies that wanted to come to the upcoming wedding. Sparrow carefully looked through the letters as he was more keen to making sure that nobles and famous ponies would be there while leaving those who only ask if they could come or if they no business even sending a letter in the first place. Pinkie was going through each letter and was saying yes to all of them for various and unreasonable reasons like if hs e liked the name or they made the card pretty. As she was of course laying them aside, Sparrow would let out a sigh now and again and would double work for Pinkie as she wasn’t very good at this. And not to mention that he had to do Fluttershy’s work as well because she didn’t wanted to hurt anypony’s feelings and the crusaders would take to long to decide on each letter. So really it was up to him to do the work. He even wondered why they were here.

“OOH~ This letter is very colorful! You can come,” Pinkie said and laid down the letter to the side.

*Sigh*

Sparrow picked up the letter and read through it. After reading it, he placed it in the no bin.

“Hehehe, that’s a funny name. He can come,” Pinkie placed another letter down.

*Sigh*

Sparrow repeated the same thing and placed it in the no bin.

“Wowie! This one has sprinkles on it, so that’s a big yes!”

*Sigh*

“Oh, I know this pony from high school!......Nope.”

“*Si-* Wait, what?”

“Hey guys, how’s it going?” Hawke asked, finding a place to seat.

“Oh, it’s going great! Do you see how many letters you got?” Pinkie said as she pointed to the bag of letters next to her. “And then those!” She pointed to three more big bags of letters sitting in the living room. “And these!” She appeared out of nowhere next to a door and opened it to show a closet full of letters. “And all of these!” She opened the front door and a large pile of bags of letters were standing outside of the house while a mailmare with blonde hair was pulling on a cart filled with more bags of letters.

“........How did I not notice that on the way in?” Hawke questioned himself.

“And I think this is just half of Equestria….maybe, so we might be getting more and more for weeks to come. Not to mention all of the other countries and nations who want in on this,” Pinkie explained. “Its a good thing that the wedding is going to be in a few months.”

“Um, Pinkie? The wedding is less than a month away,” Sparrow pointed out.

“Oh…...Well, as long as we don’t need weeks of sleep we should be good,” Pinkie said.

“How about we just get through what we can and act like we went through them all,” Hawke suggested.

“That works for me,” Sparrow agreed.

“Ah have ta agree too,” Applebloom said. “We thought we could get our cutie marks in letter reading but so far, no.”

“Plus, it’s boring,” Scootaloo added.

“And I don’t think that this is the job for me,” Fluttershy admitted. “I don’t think I can take the pressure of doing this.”

“It’s okay, Fluttershy. Not everypony is cut out to do all this,” Hawke said.

“Wait, why are we doing this?” Sweetie Belle asked. “Shouldn’t Hawke be doing all this?”

Everyone glared over to Hawke as he sat there with a nervous look.

“Because um-” Before Hawke could come up with an excuse, Spike came running up behind him. Spike was huffing and puffing as he was exhausted from running a long distance.

“Hawke! *Huff* I got a letter *Puff* from Princess *Huff* Celestia and she *Puff* needs you and *Huff* Twilight to come to Canterlot,” Spike said between breathing in and out.

Hawke then turned to the others. “-That is the reason why I can’t do this right now,” he said. With a snap of his fingers he disappeared into a flash of light.

Everyone covered their eyes from the sudden flash and after it was over, they all let out an irritated sigh.

“I hate my brother sometimes.”

After a few hours had past, both Twilight and Hawke made it at the castle in Canterlot and met with the princesses, Celestia, Luna and Cadence has they all had worried expressions on them. They sat around a round, blue table as Celestia was about tell them why she and the others were worried.

“Hawke, do you remember Tirek?” she asked.

“It’s kinda hard not to, since he did try kill me and all,” Hawke replied.

“What about Monnark? He tried to kill you and you didn’t seem to remember him at all,” Twilight pointed out.

“Who?”

Twilight smacked herself in the face.

“So what about Tirek?” Hawke asked. “Last I check, he blew up into a million pieces. I’m pretty sure at that point he’s dead.”

Celestia looked over to her sister, Luna and looked back at the couple. “I’m afraid to say that he still lives.”

Hawke and Twilight both had shocked expressions on them.

“W-What!? How!?” Twilight asked. “He couldn’t have survive an explosion like that!”

“We believe that explosion may have only been his powers being separated from him,” Luna explained. “While he did survive it, it has left him a very weaken state. Which explains why he hasn’t been heard for sometime.”

“But now we are aware of him as we have sense him using a new form of dark magic,” Celestia said. “We believe that he now has the ability to drain magic from anypony that is unfortunate enough near him.”

“And you want me and Twilight to take him down again, right?” Hawke asked.

“No.”

“What?” Everyone in the room said in unison except for Celestia.

“I will call on another to deal with him,” Celestia said. “Discord.”

“WHAT!?”

“Discord has the ability to sense any dark magic across great distances,” Celestia explained. “He will be able to find Tirek and end this before he could bring harm to anypony again.” She then turned over to Hawke. “Hawke, I will need you to be here in case Discord might fail to find or capture him. If that happens, you maybe the first one he will try to find once he restores enough of his powers.”

“He might do that or he could attack Ponyville just to draw me out,” Hawke said. “I strongly think I should go after him myself. Like you said he’s weak and he won’t be able to do anything to me as long as he’s like that.”

“True but in the past, he had allies by his side including your doppelganger, Vulture,” Luna explained. “Who’s to say that he could be with him?”

“That’s why I want to send Discord. He will be able to sense anyone besides Tirek nearby in case it was a trap and would not only capture Triek but possibly his allies as well,” Celestia explained.

“Well, alright. If you say so, Tia,” Hawke said. “I really hope that this plan works.”

“I hope as well, Hawke.” Celestia said. “And if Tirek does try anything against Ponyville, I’m sure Twilight and her friends will be able to handle it.”

“Don’t worry, princess, we’ll do our best,” Twilight said.

“I’m glad to hear it,” Celestia said. “For now, we should all get some rest and hope that Discord will succeed.”

Everyone in the room started walking out as they each were heading to their respective chambers. Hawke and Twilight walked alongside one another as both their rooms were next to one each other. Twilight looked over to him to see that Hawke had both a serious yet somewhat worried look on him.

She was worried about him so she spoke up and asked, “Hawke, are you okay?”

Hawke shook his head and looked over to Twilight. “Oh, um sorry, I was deep in thought,” he replied.

“What were you thinking about?”

Hawke remained silent for a moment before he spoke up. “When Tia said that Tirek was back, it reminded me of some things,” he replied. “Things I didn’t want to remember. Like when we went to face him and he...and...I-”

Hawke was choking on his words as he remembered looking down at the lifeless body of Twilight in the past. Remembering the pain and misery he felt as he saw the one he loved die right in front of him. And the blinding rage that came with it. He quickly wrapped his arms around Twilight and held her tight. “I don’t want to lose you again,” he quietly said to her.

Twilight was caught off guard by his sudden reaction but she understood what he was feeling. She warmling wrapped her arms around him and leaned over to his ear. “You won’t,” she cooed and place her lips on his.

The two shared a long passionate kiss with one another. Tears were dripping down Hawke’s eyes as he full heartly shared this moment with his fiancee. The two stopped for a moment and Twilight realized that they were standing in front of her room’s door.

She looked over to him and stared deeply into his eyes. “Do you want to spend the night with me?” she asked, warmingly.

Hawke nodded. “I do.”

Twilight grabbed onto Hawke’s hand and gently pulled him into her room; closing the door behind for their privacy.

Pinkie Pie walked across the screen in front of you and place both her hands on her hip and glared at you with a serious expression.

“If you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking, then I’m sorry to say, no they’re not. It’s a teen rated story and the author has a very strong opinion about unmarriable sex. If you’re waiting for him to publish a story where he does a clop about the two, then you better go somewhere else because he’s not going to do that.” She was about to leave until a thought had occurred and she looked back at you with a bright smile. “Oh! We’re having a special on cupcakes at Sugarcube Corners today! So come on down and have some sweets!”

She then started skipping towards the exit as she sang a lullaby on the way out.

Twilight and Hawke cuddled together as they both laid down on the bed. Hawke rested his head on top of Twilight’s as he smelled the pleasant aroma from her hair. Twilight let out a content sigh as she smothered her face against his chest and listen to the rhythm of his heart beat.

“Feeling better?” Twilight asked.

“A lot,” Hawke replied, giving Twillight a kiss on her forehead. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Guess we won’t be seeing each other for a few days.”

“I’m sure we’ll be fine. A few days might be good for us anyway since we see each other everyday.”

“Hehe, yeah, you’re probably right,” Hawke admitted. “Do you mind watching over Sparrow for me while I’m here?”

“Of course, I enjoy having his company.”

“By company, you mean-”

“Hawke, we’re having a sweet moment here. Don’t ruin it.”

Hawke chuckled. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist.”

Twilight playfully rolled her eyes. “You think everything will turn out okay?” she asked.

“I’m sure this will be over in no time,” Hawke replied. “I mean, what could go wrong?”

After sometime had past, Celestia had learned that Discord had betrayed them and has been helping Tirek with stealing everypony’s magic across Equestria. There was even reports of Tirek’s henchmen including Monnark and Vulture taking in the victims as prisoners and slaves. Twilight glared at Hawke with a ‘You had to tempt fate?’ look and he replied it with a ‘How was I supposed to know this was going to happen?’ shrug.

Celestia then explained her plans to transfer all of the magic that each princess had into Twilight to keep it out of Tirek’s reach. After the task was done, Twilight and Hawke quickly returned to Ponyville and agreed to keep it a secret from the others until they had a full proof plan to stop Tirek and his forces.

*BOOM*

As soon as Twilight learned how to control because she just blew up the front door without barely touching it.

Hawke stood behind her with a blank expression before looking over to her. “I don’t think that’s how you open a door, Twiliy,” he commented.

Twilight glared over to him which made him back up a bit. She then let out a sigh. “We better take some time for me to learn how to use my magic,” she said. “It’s no good for anypony if I keep on blowing everything up.”

“Then I’m willing to help,” Hawke said. “I know a thing or two about controlling an unimaginable amount of magic and having it all at once in one sudden moment.”

Twilight rolled her eyes. “Well, any help would be nice,” she smiled and kiss Hawke on the cheek….before it shocked him with ten thousand volts of electricity.

Hawke fell to the ground with his hair sticking out from the current in his body and his clothes were covered in ashes.

“HAWKE!? You’re okay!?” Twilight asked, worriedly.

“Yeah,” Hawke said, weakly. “I’m okay.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know that would-”

“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Hawke said. “Sparrow does this to me all the time during training, so I’m used to this.”

Twilight let out a relieved sigh. “Well, alright. If you say so,” she said.

“Hey, what was all the noise about?”

Both Twilight and Hawke looked over to see the others coming over to them. Rainbow Dash noticed the door wasn’t there anymore and looked to see Hawke covered in ashes. “What the hay happened here? Did Tirek attack or did another monster come by here?” she asked.

“Uhhhh.” Hawke was scratching the back of his head to come up with an excuse. “I was juggling around with my fireballs in the library because I was bored and I tripped on a book that was on the ground and one of them dropped out of my hand. You guys can figure out the rest,” he lied.

Sparrow furrowed his brow. “Wait, you can juggle?”

“And ya did it in a tree? With books? And a book was on the ground and Twilight didn’t get it?” Applejack was pointing out Hawke story. “Ah’m sorry, hon but that didn’t make a lick of sense.”

Hawke was about to say something until Twilight had to step in. “That’s not important right now,” she said. “Hawke and I need to get to the Castle of the Sisters quickly. While we’re gone, I need you guys to stay here and make sure everypony stays safe.”

“Sure thing, Twilight,” Rainbow Dash gave a salute. “Maybe we can catch up with you when we’re sure everything is safe?”

“I’m sorry, girls. This is something that Hawke and I have to do,” Twilight said and unfurl her wings. “We’ll be back soon.” With one flap of her wing, Twilight shot through the air as she was screaming because of the unexpected high velocity.

Everyone looked with shocked expressions as she disappeared beyond sight. Then they looked over to Hawke who had a blank expression on him. He looked over to the group as they stared down on him which was making him nervous.

“Well...Um……….I’ll see you guys later,” Hawke awkwardly said and flew after Twilight.

Every kept on looking until Hawke disappeared to where Twilight had gone. They were all confused by what had happened.

“Does anypony else thinks this is weird?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Yep,” Applejack admitted. “Well, we better get to everything ready in case something bad comes along.”

Then in a flash of light, Discord appeared from thin air. “Hello everypony,” he greeted.

“Speak of the devil,” Applejack quietly said to herself..

“You’re back! Did you bring the cucumber sandwiches?” Fluttershy asked.

“I sure did,” Discord replied with a tray of sandwiches. But he let them fell from the tray slowly as he had a menacing expression on him. “I imagine they'll be your last decent meal for quite some time.”

With a snap of his finger, they were all trapped in a cage. They were all shocked and tried to get out of the cage. The ground trembled constantly as another figure walked towards them. All of their eyes were wide with terror as they looked at the figure that was staring down at them.

Tirek.

“Is this all of them?” Tirek asked Discord.

“Indeed. From Twilight’s friends to her little dragon all the way to Hawke’s brother.”

Sparrow started to power up his abilities until he felt his powers being drained away from him. He collapsed onto the ground and looked up to see Discord taking his powers and placing it into the same black box that he gave him.

“Sorry, but I think I’ll be taking back my fgift now,” Discord said and made the box disappeared.

Fluttershy sobbed as Applejack held on to her. “Why are you doing this?” she asked. “I thought we were friends!”

“Oh, we were. But Tirek offered me so much more than tea parties. Surely you saw this coming?”

“I didn’t. I really didn’t,” Fluttershy replied while she still sobbed.

With his mouth wide open, Tirek sucked all the magic out of everypony in the cage and their powers were being taken away. When he was finished, he asked Discord if there anything that either Hawke or Twilight would do. Discord simply said that if they had magic to give, it was his. After he said that, Tirek surprised Discord by taking his magic away. Discord held up the amulet Tirek gave him and said that it was a gift that meant loyalty and gratitude Tirek replied by saying that it belonged to his brother that betrayed him a long time ago.

When the act was done, Tirek used his magic to summon up his soldiers and minions to keep an eye on Discord and the other. Along with them was Vulture and had a smirk expression when he saw Sparrow.

Sparrow looked at the evil copy of Hawke with eyes that had horror in them.

“Well, well, well, look what we have here?” Vulture said. “If it isn’t my goodie side’s brother who came all the way to see him.”

“H-How-”

“How do I look like your brother? Well, let’s just say he and I have history and I intend to pay him back for all that he has done to me.” Vulture reached through the cage’s bars and grabbed Sparrow around the throat. “And you’re going to help.”

“Now Twilight, just focus,” Hawke said. He was helping Twilight to maintain her massive level of magic. The progress was slow but he believe that they were making progress. “Let the energy build up only for a few seconds and then-”

“Hawke, I thought you that,” Twilight pointed out. “The problem isn’t letting it out, it’s keeping it in without losing control over it.”

“Oh…….Have you tried holding your breath?”

Twilight let out a groan.

“I’m sorry, honey. I guess I’m not very good at this,” Hawke admitted, sadly.

“That’s not true, sweetie,” Twilight said. “You thought your brother well.”

“No, not the teaching, I mean….I’m not feeling like I’m not doing enough for you,” Hawke said.

Twilight was caught off guard when she heard him say that. She opened and closed her mouth a few times as she attempted say something but never could find the words. When she thought about it, she would remember him trying to cheer her up. A few times it worked but it never lasted and she feel even more depressed about it. She just became a princess for a few months and wanted to do more like all any of the other princesses. She let out a sigh and looked at Hawke. “I’m sorry if I’ve been making you feel bad,” she said. “I’ve never thought I would ever become a princess and ever since I did become one, I wanted to do the best I can. I wanted to make everypony proud of me of being the best princess I can be.”

“You are the best princess, Twilight,” Hawke said. “And to me, you were always a princess.”

Twilight smiled and blushed a bit at his words. “Then that should be more than enough for me,” she said.

The two were about to kiss until a tremendous voice interrupted their moment.

“TWILIGHT SPARKLE! GUARDIAN! YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO ME!”

Twilight was startled by that statement and Hawke gave out a sigh. ‘I need to find more quiet nemesis,’ he thought to himself.

Holding each others hands, they both teleported into an open field and saw Tirek in front of them.

“So there is the happy couple,” Tirek mocked. “It’s been such a long time since we last met.”

“And you…..turned into an old man?” Hawke asked, confusedly.

“Thanks to you, after you bested me on the day of the red moon,” Tirek pointed out. “But I’ve become more powerful since then and now I will have my revenge on you!”

Hawke rolled his eyes. “Seriously? We’re going with the whole revenge scheme thing?” he mockingly asked. “You think you bad guys would learn that if you get beaten the first time, what makes you think you can beat the good guy the next time?”

“How about you find out?”

Vulture appeared next to Tirek with a few dark mages behind him and on the other side of Tirek, Monnark appeared with a few of his own behind him.

“We meet again, guardian,” Monnark said.

“So it seems,” Hawke said before leaning towards Twilight. “Who is he?”

Twilight smacked herself and Monnark let out a growl.

“Enough talk! Let’s finished this!” Vulture shouted and his weapon appeared out of thin air.

Tirek and all of his mages started having auras of energy appear around their hands while some of the others had various weapons with them. Twilight lit up her horn and magic was surging through her arms with various flows of colors surrounding them and Hawke used his magic to make his staff appear in a flash of lightning. He focused his magic where the orb of the staff was and a magical blade came out of it as it flamed with blue energy.

They all stared down one another waiting for the other to start their attack. They all stood still as the wind blow through hairs and their clothes and robes moved with it. On a single piece of grass that had a small bit of water on it was at the very tip of it. When the water fell off of it and landed on the ground with a small dip sound, Twilight unfurled her wings and Hawke brought out his light wings and they both charged flying towards them. Tirek and his men let out their war crys as they too charged towards them.

They all charged towards one another at their top speed until…

To Be Continued...

Author's Note

All right everyone, we're two chapters away from the end. What will happen? What does Vulture have planned for Sparrow? And will Twilight find her place as a princess? Find out in the next chapter!

Brothers Til the End - Part II

Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny

Chapter 12
Brothers til the End
-Part 2-

“AAAAAAAAAAAA-”

*SMACKING AGAINST A ROCK SOUND*

One of Tirek’s minions flew against a nearby boulder face flat and landed with a thud on top of a bunch of other minions with Monnark at the bottom; unconscious.

After Hawke was done with the last of the minions, he looked back to see Vulture attempting to slash at him with a long, edge sword. Hawke rolled out of the way and with his magic, he made his staff appear out of thin air and grabbed it.

He fired multiple shots of energy blasts at Vulture only for them to either miss him as he dodged them or he deflected them with his sword. When he was close to Hawke, he brought his sword up over him and slashed down towards Hawke only for it to be blocked by his staff. Vulture then kicked Hawke in the stomach causing him to fall to the ground. But Hawke rolled backwards and jumped back to his feet.

Hawke then concentrated his magic into the staff and the blade energy came out of the orb. Using his magic to increase his speed, Hawke lung towards Vulture with his staff but was parried by Vulture who spun around and elbowed Hawke on the side of his face. Hawke fell to the ground and spun around until he stopped and was on his knee.

Vulture let out a laugh. “I see your time with your pony friends had made you weak,” he mocked. There was an explosion that happened in the far off of them and Hawke had a worried look on him. “It looks like my master is having a good time with your princess,” he said. “After I’m done with you, she’s next and I’m going to make it slow and painful.” Vulture then set his blade on fire with flaming red energy.

Hawke looked to Vulture with a serious expression. “As long as I live, you will not get near her,” he said “And this fight isn’t over yet.”

Hawke got up on his feet and held his staff in an attack stance.

“HA! Do you really think you can take me on with a staff?”

“Well, if you don’t like my staff sword so much, how about an axe instead?”

“What!?”

Hawke then used his magic to change the blade energy and forming around the orb, a one sided axe blade appeared right next to it. Hawke brought his light wings out and flew towards Vulture at high speed. He then brought the staff and as he was about to swing at Vulture, the back of the orb let out a blast of fire that propelled the axe towards Vulture at a faster rate.

Vulture held up his sword to block it but as soon as the axe made contact with the blade, it shattered it into pieces and sent him flying towards a boulder. He crashed into it forming a human shape hole and fell unconscious.

Hawke let out a sly smile. “Glad to know I still got it,” he said. He looked around to see that all of the minions and Monnark were still unconscious. “Well, that takes care of them. Better help Twilight before Tirek does something he’ll regret,” Hawke said to himself and teleported out of the area.

Vulture, however, was able to pull himself out of the hole and his eyes were filled with fiery red energy.

*BOOM*

“ARGH!”

Tirek yelped in pain when Twilight let out a stream of high unstable magic at him. The lord of darkness looked back at her and fired a large energy ball at her with his horns. Twilight flew to the side out of the way and fired another magical stream at him. The blast hit him and a gust of dust covered the area. Twilight was blinded by the dust and looked around for her opponent.

Unknown to her, Tirek had appeared behind her and fired another blast at her. Twilight didn’t noticed the blast until it was too late and it hit her in the back. She fell to the ground with a thud and attempted to get up. She looked up in a dazed and saw tirek over her.

“Now we end this,” Tirek said. “Your powers will be mine and I will be the most powerful being in all the world!”

He opened his jaw as he was about to sukc Twilight’s magic out until he was punched across the face by Hawke who was flying towards him. Tirek was sent flying along side the ground and skid across it. Tirek stopped and got back you on all four of his hooves.

Hawke kneeled down to Twilight and he helped her up back on her hooves. Hawke and Twilight then faced Tirek together and stared down at him.

“You won’t win, Tirek,” Hawke said. “As long as Twilight and I make our stand together, you can’t beat us. We have something that you will never understand and that is both love and friendship!”

“No matter how much you try to tear us apart, you will never break what is special to us and will do everything we can to protect it,” Twilight said.

“That is what I’m counting on,” Tirek said. “How about we make a deal?” He then snapped his fingers and all of their friends appeared in bubbles trapped, including Discord. “Your magic for your friends.”

Hawke and Twilight both looked at him with worried expressions before looking towards one another. Twilight looked at Hawke’s eyes with pleading hope that he would have an idea because at the moment for her….she couldn’t think of any. Hawke looked into her pleading eyes and looked back at his friends and his brother with them as they were trapped in them as they were yelling for them not to do it.

“ENOUGH!” Tirek yelled. “I want an answer now!”

Hawke looked back at Twilight and only gave her a nod. She looked down for a moment and with a sad smile, she nodded too.

“It’s a deal,” Hawke said.

Tirek smirked and he snapped his fingers to let the others go except for Discord.

“All of them!” Twilight said.

“Even after he betrayed you and all your friends?”

“Let him go or no deal!” Hawke said.

“Very well,” Tirek replied and he let Discord go.

Discord landed on the ground with a thud and looked up at the couple with a sad smile. “Thank you,” he said.

Tirek opened his jaws and sucked the magic from both Twilight and Hawke. Twilight felt her body become weak and her cutie mark was gone. Hawke’s hair color faded away and his original brown hair was back to itself again. Twilight was falling towards the ground until Hawke caught her and held her up. Tirek was not ten times his size and was a massive giant as he drained away the last bit of magic from both Twilight and Hawke.

“Pleasure doing business with you,” Tirek said. “And Guardian, It was nice seeing you before saying farewell.” Tirek then walked away and started causing havoc on the nearby forests.

Hawke furrowed his brow in confusion. But from out of nowhere he felt something sharp pierce through his chest. He coughed up blood and looked down to see an edge blade through his chest. He slowly looked behind him and see Vulture behind him with a wicked smile.

Vulture pulled the sword out and Hawke fell on his knees before collapsing onto the ground. Sparrow and the others all gasped as they had horrified expressions on them.

“NNOOOOOO!” Twilight shrieked. She got over to where Hawke was laying as tears were forming around her eyes. She saw that Hawke was in agonizing pain and felt helpless to do anything. “PLEASE, DON’T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!” she screamed.

“What a pity,” Vulture said. “And you two were getting married.” He walked behind Twilight with his sword in his hand. “Of course if you want to be with him so badly, I’ll be more than obliged to do so.” He held up his sword as it was engulf in flames. He was about to bring it down on her until he heard a yell.

“NNOOOOOO!” Sparrow he reached out with his hand and all of a sudden the energy from Vulture sword was being absorbed into Sparrow’s hand in a few seconds. In a sudden reaction, Sparrow fired the energy back at Vulture with lightning coming out of his hand. Vulture was struck by it and was sent flying.

Anyone’s eyes were on Sparrow as they were shock to see him do that. Sparrow was just as surprised as them and looked at his hands. “How did I-”

“You little piece of-” Vulture began to say but let out a cough as he was getting back on his feet. Vulture’s eyes were burning red with energy. “I’m going to make you pay for that!”

Sparrow put his confusion aside and faced Vulture with a serious look. “No, I’m going to make you pay!” he yelled and made a dashed towards him.

“NO, WAIT!” Pinkie yelled, trying to stop Sparrow.

Vulture use his magic to throw a large fire ball at Sparrow. It hit him and was engulf in the flames. Everyone gasped at what they saw but was changed into shocked. Sparrow was absorbing the flames into his hands and his eyes were sparking with electricity.

“HOW ARE YOU-” Before Vulture could finish, Sparrow charged at him and he thrust himself against Vulture chest. He sent Vulture flying again and against a boulder. Vulture shook his head and looked up to see Sparrow’s fist.

Sparrow slammed his fist on to Vulture’s face and smashed him through the boulder. Vulture bounced a few times onto the ground roughly before stopping on it and was coughing up blood. He got was able to get back up slowly and looked as if he was dazed.

Sparrow used his magic to summon up a sword and ran towards Vulture with a furious warcry. He jumped high over Vulture and was bring his sword down on him. Vulture attempted to grab Sparrow but failed as the blade cut through his arm. Sparrow slashed Vulture’s arm off and blood came out of it. Vulture let out a curling scream of pain.

Sparrow brought his leg up and side kicked him in the stomach causing him to fall to the ground. He stood over Vulture and was about to make his final blow until he heard a shout.

“DON’T!”

Sparrow looked back with sparks coming out of his eyes but it softened when he saw his brother, Hawke’s head was being held up by Twilight. Hawke coughed out some more blood and looked at Sparrow with weary eyes. “D-Don’t. It’s not worth it,” he said, weakly.

Sparrow looked at his brother for a moment and looked back at Vulture as he was laying there while he tried to cover his remaining arm. He then looked over towards the others to see that they all had terrified expressions on them. But among the ones that pierce his heart the most was when he saw Pinkie with her hair straight and her fur was a darker shade of pink as she had tears in her eyes as they covered her cheeks. He looked down at his blade to see blood on it and saw that some of it had gotten on his hand.

Out of fear, he threw his sword to the side and saw it disappear. He backed away from Vulture and looked over to his brother with tears starting to form. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to-”

“I know,” Hawke said. “You did it out of anger and that’s fine. And I’m glad that you stopped before you did something you’ll regret.”

“But he’s still-” Sparrow looked back to see that Vulture had disappeared. “Where did he go?”

“He must have fled,” Twilight said. “He was always a coward and would run when he had the chance.” She then looked down at Hawke with sorrow in her eyes. “Please don’t leave me.”

Hawke gave a weak smile. “I’m sorry. This is one promise I can’t keep,” he said.

“Then that’s a promise I can make,” Sparrow said as he kneeled down next to Hawke.

“What are you-”

Before Twilight could finish, yellow energy started to come out of Sparrow’s hands and he placed them over his brother. When he was ready, he started to concentrate his magic into Hawke’s wound and it started to heal. The wound slowly closed up and the blood around it disappeared. Hawke felt the magic flowing through him and began to feel his body once more.

Sparrow’s magic started to fade and it disappeared from his hand. He wiped away the sweat as he felt like he was drained of it. “I’m out of magic. I guess, I can only have as much magic as much as I can absorb it,” he said.

Hawke felt some of his strength come back and stood back up on his two feet with the help of Twilight and Sparrow. “It looks like it was more than enough to help,” he said.

All of their friends cheered to see Hawke was once again alright. Discord walked up to the couple and removed the necklace that Tirek. “Tirek tricked me into believing that he could offer me something more valuable than friendship. But there is nothing worth more. I see that now. He lied when he said that this medallion was given as a sign of gratitude and loyalty. But when I say that it is a sign of our true friendship, I am telling the truth,” Discord said as he placed it over Twilight and it hanged around her neck.

Twilight's eyes then flashed with light colors of rainbow and she felt her natural colored eyes coming back to life.

“You think that’s the last piece for the chest?” Applejack asked.

“We have to get to the chest,” Twilight said. Everyone heard a large bang behind them and saw Tirek was blowing away the forest with his magic as he was setting it on fire. “Come on!” Twilight yelled and led the way while she carried Hawke with her and the others followed.

Hawke was laying down against a wall in the cave where the Tree of Harmony was. Sparrow looked at it with awe as he had never had the chance to see it. The tree was made of out pure crystal and there were five branches that had a symbol of the girls elements in them.with Twilight’s being in the very center of the tree.

Sparrow looked to where Twilight and her friends were as they placed the necklace on the small box that the tree had given them.

“What’s Twilight trying to do?” Sparrow asked.

“The girls found out that they were tested on how well they represented their elements and were giving an item by a pony that they showed what it meant to be a friend. The box would then turn them into a key that would unlock the box if all six of them were found,” Hawke explained.

“What happens when it opens?”

“We’re about to find out,” Hawke said.

Twilight and her friends twisted their keys and a flash of light hit the center of the Tree of Harmony. Light streamed through the branches of the tree and made the elements on them shine brightly with energy flowing in them. The energy then flew through the air and engulf itself into the girls; transforming them.

Their manes and tails grew longer as streams of colors go through them like various rainbow colors. Their outfits were changed into elegant dresses and their cutie marks were back on their left shoulders as other cutie marks appeared on certain parts of their body.

“Whoa,” Sparrow said.

“That’s new,” Hawke said.

The girls then disappeared and Sparrow, Hawke, DIscord and Spike went outside to see Tirek attempting to blast away the girls. But his attacks were futile and the girls blasted him with their magic. As the streams of magic went through him, he slowly shrunk down until he was average size and looked a very weary old man with small horns and was sent to the depths of Tartarus.

The guys cheered for the girls. The girls then spread out thought out Equestria as they were restoring everypony’s magic and giving them back their cutie marks. After they were done, Twilight and the girls reappeared back to the guys and Twilight ignited her horn and a stream of magic surrounded Hawke. Hawke felt his magic returning to him and his hair was once again blue with streaks of white.

“Ah, it’s good to have magic back in this body,” Hawke said. He then looked over to Twilight as he was checking out her transformed attire and body. “Liking the new look, sweetie.”

Twilight blushed lightly and had had a smile on her. “Thanks, honey,” she said with a wink.

“This is amazing!” Pinkie shouted. “I’m definitely throwing a ‘We Transformed Into Awesome Heroines’ party!”

“This gives me an whole new idea on what to do for your wedding dress, darling,” Rarity said as she was inspecting Twilight’s dress. “I believe I can get it done in no time.” She then glared over to Hawke. “Provided that a certain husband-to-be doesn't come in and ruin traditions.”

Hawke let out a sigh. “I’m going to be knocking on a lot of doors,” he said.

“Well, it’s seems everything is going to be-”

Before Sparrow could finish, Hawke was blast by a stream of red magic and it sent across the ground. They all looked over to see who did so and saw with horrid looks who did it.

Vulture blasted Hawke with a red crystallized arm that Sparrow severed and his eyes were burning with anger. “This isn’t over, not by a long shot,” he hissed. “We’re ending this today, Guardian.”

The others were about to take on Vulture until Hawke shouted at them.

“NO! This is my fight,” he said. The others looked at him with confusion. “He’s my responsibility and I will finish it.” Hawke walked past the others and stood firm against his evil counterpart.

Vulture gave a smirk smile. “So you decided to end this? You’re going to break you one rule?” he asked, mockingly.

“It’s true that I wouldn’t take anothers life unless they gave me no choice,” Hawke replied. “But I’ll make an exception as you clearly have no soul left in you.”

“Bro, you’re sure about his?” Sparrow asked. “We can still take him down together and-”

“He’s right,” Twilight said and everyone looked to her. “This is his responsibility and he can do it.”

Hawke gave a small smile and nodded at her. He then turned back to Vulture with a serious look and brought out his staff as the energy was formed into an axe blade. “One shall stand,” he declared.

Vulture transformed his crystallized arm into a long edge blade and his eyes were burning with fire in them. “Enough of the transformers gag and let’s get this over with!” he yelled.

Hawke furrowed his brow. “The one time I get to use that and my evil counterpart wouldn’t go with it,” he said to himself. He then charged towards Vulture with increased speed.

Vulture did the same thing and charged at Hawke with furious speed.

When they were close enough, Vulture brought up his blade arm and brought it down at Hawke only to blocked by his staff. Hawke parry with it and hit Vulture with the end of the staff. Vulture recoiled from the attack and attempted to slash Hawke across the torso. But Hawke ducked and spun around to side swipe Vulture on to the ground. Vulture however quickly used his normal hand on the ground and bounced back up to his feet.

Hawke then jumped into the air with his wings on his back and started to make a charged swipe with his axe staff. The orb let out a forced fire and propelled the staff at high speed. Vulture intercepted it with blade and they both collided with one another with the two not letting the other give any ground. When too much force was being given, the two back from one another.

Vulture then transformed his blade arm into a mantis like arm with a scythe blade and used it to grab Hawke’s staff and pulled it away from him. He then started to slash various times at Hawke but he was dodging each swipe and made a great jumped away from Vulture.

Vulture had bat like wings coming from him and flew directly towards Hawke. Hawke placed two of his hands close together and electrical streams of energy were forming around them. Hawke then fired a stream of magic at him and made contact with him. Vulture let out a painful scream and was sent flying backwards. Vulture crashed against the ground and when he attempted to get back up, Hawke jumped in the air and kicked him in the chest.

Vulture felt the air forced out of him and was pushed back towards the remains of the boulder that Sparrow punched him though. He got back up on his two feet slowly and was panting heavily.

Hawke used his magic to pull back his staff and he ignited it in its sword blade form. “It’s not too late to surrender, Vulture,” Hawke said. “You can still come out of this alive if you do.”

Vulture growled. “I won’t let you or anyone take pity on ME!” He then started to power up his amulet and magic was coursing through his veins. “I have more power than you can-” The amulet suddenly shattered into pieces as Vulture had overload it and dust started to cover him. The magic was slowly turning Vulture into a crystal as it crawled his skin. Vulture panicked and scream out of fear as the crystal surrounded his body. His screams stop as the crystal engulfed mouth and his entire body was now a crystallized statue of him.

Everyone gasped at what they saw and winced at the very presence of the once human statue. Hawke walked carefully towards the statute and inspected it. Hawke let out a sigh and looked towards the others to insure them that it was harmless.

However the statue moved its head looking at Hawke and made a grab for him. Hawke didn’t have to time to get out of the way and was grabbed around the neck. The crystallized Vulture let out a screeching howl as he was bring his other hand up and it formed into serval claws. It was about to make a fatal blow Hawke until its arm was shot off by a stream of violet magic.

“YOU WILL NOT TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME AGAIN!” Twilight then let loose another stream of magic at it and shattered the other arm off; releasing Hawke from its grip.

After Hawke was free, he quickly jabbed his hand into the Vulture’s chest. In one sudden move, he powered up his hand with magic and blew Vulture inside out; shattering him into several pieces. Hawke was pushed back from the resulting explosion and landed on the ground with a thud.

The others quickly ran over to Hawke as they all crowded around him. Twilight and Sparrow lifted Hawek back on his feet. Hawke shook his head. “Well, I didn’t see that coming,” he said.

“WOOHOO! We won!” Pinkie shouted.

Before they could say or do anything, they group suddenly teleported and were standing on the edge of Ponyville and the box appeared in front of them. The box faded into the ground and from the grown up, a crystal tree started to grow from the ground up. The tree then started to form itself into a castle. Everyone looked in awe at it.

“Sweet Celestia!” Rarity said. “Are you seeing what I’m seeing?”

“But whose is it?” Twilight asked.

“I believe it is yours, Princess Twilight.”

Everyone looked behind them to see Celestia, Luna and Cadence standing behind them.

“And yours as well, soon-to-be Prince Hawke,” Celestia said.

“Wait, this is our castle?” Hawke asked as he looked up to the castle. “Well, atleast we don’t have to worry about which house we’re moving in.”

“Actually, it wouldn’t have been a problem anyway,” Twilight said as she pointed towards her once Library that was destroyed when her and Tirek were facing off.

“Oh.”

“You’ve been wondering what you are meant to do as a princess. Do you know now?” Celestia asked.

“As princess, I believe I have the power to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria. That is the role I am meant to have in our world! The role I choose to have! But I didn't defeat Tirek and his minions on my own. It took all of us to unlock the chest!” Twilight replied.

“Then it is unlikely that will take on this task alone.”

Hawke held onto Twilight’s hand and showed a bright smile to her. She smiled as well and the couple both hugged one another. The others joined in as they all gathered for a group hug including Discord.

“Wait a minute, where’s my throne?” Discord asked.

“I don’t think you’re quite there yet,” Fluttershy said.

“Well, hehehe, I suppose you’re right,” Discord said as he smiled at his friend.

“Now that we have that all settled,” Applejack said. “We still have a wedding to plan.”

“Yes we do!” Rarity squealed.

“Woohoo! I just hope that the chapter dosen’t en-”

End of Chapter

“WHAT!? But we still have a wedding!” Pinkie cried

Author's Note

Now that we finally have that out of the way. Pinkie is right.

WE STILL HAVE A WEDDING TO GO TO!!!
One chapter to go!

Another Journey Through Life

Guardian of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny
Chapter 13
Another Journey Through Life

In the great city of Canterlot, ponies from everywhere were gathering to hopefully be at the Wedding for both Princess Twilight Sparkle and Guardian Hawke Gregory. There were lines forming towards the castle for miles filled with ponies and other species from other nations to join in this special occasion. Guards were standing by their positions as they watched out for danger while they themselves were excited.

Inside the Castle, everypony were trying to find their places to sit or mingled with others as they waited for the event to begin.

In the bridegroom’s room, Hawke was looking over his wedding suit. It was a royal uniform that was blue and had a white sash across it. He smiled as he looked over the suit. He heard a few knocks on the door.

“Come in,” Hawke said.

Opening the door was Sparrow in a similar uniform as Hawke but it was a yellow version of it. He pulled around the neck piece and gave out an irritated look. “How does someone get use to this?” he asked.

“I think most people bare with it until they get out of it,” Hawke joked. “Did you needed something?”

“I was just telling you that everything is about to start.”

“Alright, I’ll be right there,” Hawke said.

Sparrow nodded and closed the door. Hawke took one last look at himself.

‘This is it,’ Hawke happily thought.

On the other side of the castle, Rarity was getting Twilight in her wedding dress. Rarity was trying to make Twilight’s mane into what it was when they were given powers that the Tree of Harmony gave them, but Twilight was able to make it happened as she used her magic to replicate what she looked like before.

Her dressed was was a combination of violet colors with the center piece having her star cutie mark on there. On top of her head was her crown. She examined the dress and she couldn’t but smile happily at it.

“Rarity, this is very beautiful,” Twilight said.

“I knew you would like it,” Rarity said. “At first I thought about making the traditional white wedding dress but thankfully when saw it and I had to change everything, I remembered that Princess Cadence was wearing her royal colors.”

“Her royal colors?”

“Darling, do you not pay attention to what royalties wear?” Rarity asked. “Princess Celestia wears pure white dresses with either gold trimmings or gold accessories. Princess Luna usually wears dark blue dresses or black dress. And Cadence wears pink dresses most of the time. You, my dear friend, make violet colorings work perfectly for you.”

“Now that you mention it, they really do have their own way of styling,” Twilight said. “Do you think Hawke would like it?”

“Twilight, the moment he sees you in that dress, he will forever be grateful that he get’s to marry a mare like you,” Rarity assured.

There was a few knocks on the door and Rarity walked over to open it. Rarity slightly opened the door and peaked to see who it was.

“Heya, Rarity,” Applejack said. “Everything starting now, is Twilight ready?”

“Yes, she is,” Rarity said. “We’ll be out in a moment.”

“Alright, see ya at the main hall,” Applejack said and walked away.

Rarity closed the door and looked over to Twilight. “Are you ready?” she asked.

“More than I ever been in my entire life,” Twilight replied.

Hawke stood at the end of the aisle waiting for his bride to come as everypony waited in their seats. Standing next to him was his little brother and best man, Sparrow with Spike, Big Mac, Shining Armor and a few of the royal guards. On the side where Twilight would stand, her friends Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie stood ready for their friend. Sneaking her way up, Applejack got to her place and stood there with the rest of the girls.

The wedding march music began to play and everypony stood up. The grand doors opened and coming out was Twilight in her beautiful dress walking with her father holding her arm. Leading the way was the cutie mark crusaders who were skipping along the path with basket of flower petals in them. When they both got there, Night let go of his daughter’s arm and gave Hawke a wink. Hawke and Twilight held each others hands and they both smiled.

“Ladies and gentlecolts,” Celestia began. “We are here to celebrate the union of Guardian Hawke Gregory and Princess Twilight Sparkle. Their love have withstood both the evil that once lurked in our lands and time itself and will continue to grow stronger as they stay together. The couple have written their vows, which they would like to give.”

“Hawke,” Twilight began. “When we first met, you were this silly, strange man that came from a spell I found and ever since then, we both had been through a lot together. When I realized I was in love with you, I couldn’t let you go and I wanted to be with more than anything else. Today, I don’t see you as a silly, strange man but a very brave and compassionate hero that would do anything to keep me, my family and friends safe. I promise to never stop loving you and to stay by your side no matter what.”

“Twilight,” Hawke began. “You were my first friend when I came here and you have shown me things I thought were impossible. Back in the world I was from, I felt like I was going nowhere in my life. But when I came here, you helped change that and now, because of you, you made me into the man I am today. And I want to repay you for that by becoming your husband and to show you how much I love you as I wake up to see your beautiful face every morning we spend together. I promise to always make you happy and I promise to never stop loving you with all my heart and soul.”

“Twilight Sparkle,” Celestia said. “Do you take Hawke Gregory to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, to sickness and health, to good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself solely unto to him for as long as you both live?”

“I do,” Twilight replied.

“Hawke Gregory,” Celestia said. “Do you take Twilight Sparkle to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, to sickness and health, to good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself solely unto to her for as long as you both live?”

“I do,” Hawke replied.

“May we have the rings?”

Spike walked up to the two and handed them their rings that was on a violet pillow. Hawke and Twilight both grabbed their spouse’s rings. Hawke went first and held Twilight’s left hand and slid the ring on her ring finger. Twilight did the same with Hawke.

“If there is anypony that objects to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace.”

“I, Prince Blueblood, I have something to say-”

*ZAP!*

“AAAHH!”

Sparrow had his hand held up like gun and fired a small zap of lightning at Blueblood. When it was over, Sparrow blew the tip of his finger and had a satisfied smile on him. Everyone let out a laugh at the spectacle.

“Then I now pronounce you mare and colt. You may now kiss the bride.”

Hawke and Twilight held each other close and kissed. Everyone applauded and cheered, except for Blueblood. Rarity was crying with tears of joy and didn’t notice that Applejack had grabbed her stetson hat she had hidden and placed it back on top of her head. The newly wed couple stopped their kiss and walked down the aisle towards the reception with everyone following them.

The reception went well and the toasts amazing. First Twilight’s parents were saying how they were now gaining two sons in their family, Shining Armor and Cadence were saying how they were excited have more members for their family and all of their friends took their time roasting them.

No one knew how, but somehow both Pinkie and Sparrow had started a cake fight in the reception hall and either everyone was throwing some of it at each other or were hiding to avoid getting their outfits messed up.

After getting a few hits in, Hawke and Twilight agreed to leave the rest to their friends and family and teleported out and headed straight towards their room that Celestia had provided for them.

Hawke and Twilight were standing out on the balcony overlooking the ever busy city of Canterlot and the star filled skies with no clouds in sight. Twilight rested her head on Hawke’s shoulders and he rested his head on hers.

“This has been the best wedding ever,” Hawke said.

“Only because it had us in it?” Twilight asked.

“You know it.”

“So now what?” Twilight asked.

“Now we live our lives together,” Hawke replied and looked down at her. “And well, I did say we were going to do something as soon as we got married.”

“What do you-”

Before Twilight could finish, Hawke scooped her up and held her in a bridal position. He leaned towards her and gave her a deep passionate kiss. When they stopped and Hawke looked at Twilight with a sly smile on him.

“I did say I was going to rock your world when we got married,” Hawke said.

Twilight had a sly smiled on her and sultry looking eyes. “Then I’m all yours, my prince,” she said.

They both gave each other one last passionate kiss before they headed back inside. And on that night, they knew they would spend the rest of their life together as husband and wife.

The End

Author's Note

Well, guys that's another happily completed story. Hoped you all enjoyed it as much as I did :twilightsmile: