Spike The Dragon is a ponyville resident who gets excepted into Hopes's Peak Academy, the school for those who have a hopeful brighter future, but he and 15 other students are actually trapped in the school, and now, as the rules are given by the 'Head master' to kill one another, but if they kill someone, the murderer can go free. but he or she must take a trial to prove their innocence as they lie through the trial, and if they fail they die.

Join spike and his classmates as he soon becomes conflicted between the borderline of hope and the deep sea of despair.