Once Twilight had finished crossing the lake of jello, it was reverted back into the dark and murky swamp. Again, they were left in almost complete darkness as they continued.

As she and Discord worked their way further into the forest, it became even darker (if that was even possible). Even Zecora didn't venture this far into the forest. And soon Twilight couldn't even see her hoof in front of her face.

She relied on the sound of Discord's footsteps and followed closely behind him, hoping she wouldn't run into a tree. But after a few minutes she wondered whether she was actually following him or just hearing her own hoofsteps. She stopped and listened. There was no sound.

"Um... Discord? Are you still there?"

There was no response.

"It's kind of dark here. Can you turn on a light... if you're still there?"

There was no reply, but a tiny light did appear. It was a little firefly, and from its light she could barely see where she was.

"Um... that was you who did that wasn't it?" she asked.

The firefly began moving away from her. Twilight followed it, although she didn't know where it was taking her. It lead her quite a ways from where she found it until it slowly stopped and landed on the nose of a menacing face.

"BOO!"

The unicorn jumped back in fright. "DISCORD! Why did you do that?"

He wasn't paying attention to her because he was laughing too hard. "You should have seen the look on your face! Priceless!"

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah, I've been told that before..."

Discord wiped a tear from his eye and caught his breath. "I haven't had that much fun since I made Ponyville the chaos capital of the world!"

"Yeah, yeah, enough chit-chat. We should continue walking. I hate this forest. And I'm sick of the dark."

Discord started walking again, and the tiny firefly followed him, providing barely enough light to see where they were going. "You don't like the dark?" he asked, sounding puzzled, "You must be kidding me! I thought you were a unicorn, and not only that, but you represent the element of magic! Can't you make your little horn glow or something like that?"

"Sure, but my magic also has limitations. Have you ever heard of the phrase 'friendship is magic'? It's only potent when I am feeling the power of friendship. And I'm not feeling it right now, especially being so near to the spirit of chaos!"

"I still can't believe you don't see me as your friend." he sighed.

"Because you're not, and you never will be." she shot back.

"Someday..."

"No, I kind of doubt it."

"Oh, don't be so silly Miss Sparkle, one day you'll see..."

Twilight was becoming annoyed. "Grrr! Can't you just tell me when we're going to get out of here?"

Discord put a finger in the air like he was sensing something, even though there was no wind. "I think we may already be half-way through."

"And what's on the other side of the forest?"

"Didn't you look at the map?"

"I haven't had a chance to yet."

"Well then it will be a surprise!"

And it seemed Discord was right, in less than an hour there appeared to be small amounts of light coming in from the cracks between the trees. It wouldn't be long now before they were out of it for good. The tiny firefly left them because they no longer needed it.

Discord finally broke the long silence. "Ah, I can see the end just up ahead."

Twilight emerged from the forest and into a large grassy plain with a hill in the distance. She sat down to take a rest.

"And I told you I wouldn't let anything harm you in there. Was I right or was I right?"

Twilight didn't answer him. She was too tired.

"Oh, but aren't you excited? We've reached the edge of modern Equestria! Nopony has been here for hundreds of years! Just imagine everything we have to re-explore!"

"I just want to go to sleep..."

"But won't you at least see the other side of the hill? I promise you it will be impressive. It's not that far!"

"Do I have to?"

"Please, just come to the other side of the hill."

She surrendered and stood up. Discord was so excited that she was curious to see what it wall all about. It only took a few minutes to work her way to the top of the hill. And, surprisingly, Discord turned out to be right. It was amazing. They were standing at the edge of a rocky cliff with a beach and ocean below. The sun was setting and the water was glimmering in many different colors.

"I told you it would be great." he teased her.

"Yes it's... lovely. I don't think I've seen anything like this in any of my books."

"You ponies wouldn't have a name for it now, but back in my day, it was called the Great Blue Sea. It's the boundary between the world of the past and the world of the present."

They watched the sun go down until the sky was almost as dark as the forest. Thousands of stars appeared shimmering in the dark blue sky.

"Oh, and didn't you say you were tired?" Discord asked, "Because I brought something that might help that." He snapped his fingers and a small, old tent appeared on the ground.

Twilight just stared at it. "How are we going to fit in there?"

"Oh, we're not both going to be in there..."

"So you want me to sleep outside?"

"No... you can have it all to yourself. I don't actually sleep at all."

She was momentarily shocked that he actually thought about her feeling and would bring a tent just for her.

"Um... thanks!" she smiled weakly and went inside. It wasn't in the finest shape, but it would do. The map was thrown into a corner and she collapsed on the bed and went to sleep.