Rye Harvest, a colt just fifteen summers old, is kidnapped and forced, by law of Emperor Discord, to fight in the Arena. It is in the Arena where physically disadvantaged young colts face massive beasts of the forests and to be used as live dummies for Champion Fighters. But Rye Harvest is part of the longbowponies under Righteous Fury, an old Equestrian Lord faithful to the overthrown princesses Celestia and Luna. Righteous Fury, who still held a good amount of territory, had imposed the "longbow and arms law", a law requiring small colts from the age of seven summers to train themselves with longbow and melee weapon, in order to raise a versatile army capable of defeating Discord and restoring power. How will Rye do in the Arena?