Artha's father, Connor Penn, has successfully bred a gold dragon, a breed considered extinct and spoken of only in ancient legends. The gold dragon Beaucephalis must choose a rider, but Word Paynn sends his son's crew to attack Connor's home and steal the dragon.
The gold dragon chose Artha as its rider, but his friends are attacked by members the Dragon Eyes crew. Meanwhile, Artha is taken to an underground temple and given an ancient gauntlet that transforms him into the hero of legend, the Dragon Booster.
The dragon racer Pyrrah, normally one of the cleanest racers on the street, falls under the power of black mind-control gear developed by Word Paynn, and abducts Artha's younger brother in order to lure Artha into a trap.
A bank hiest implicates the Dragon Fist crew as responsible, and Moordryd challenges Phistus, the crew's leader, for control of the Down City Council, using a type of dragon developed by his father -- an invisible "wraith" dragon -- to defeat Phistus in the process.
Word Paynn challenges the Down City crews to recover an ancient artifact called the Furox, and Kitt Won, angry at not being thanked for helping Artha win a street race, is used to retrieve it.
Artha, exhausted from both street racing and his training as the Dragon Booster, accepts a sponsor to help him win an upcoming race, but the sponsor is actually Word Paynn, and the new gear he receives puts Beau firmly under Word Paynn's control.
Moordryd wins a race by cheating, and acquires its prize -- an ancient horn whose call summons a legendary grey dragon whom his father plans to use for inciting a new war.
Artha falls into a trap set by Word Paynn and finds himself deep below Dragon City where he meets the short, reclusive leader of the Dragon Keepers crew. But he is also near the lair of an energy-draining dragon called the Muhorta, which Word plans to use to capture the Dragon Booster and dragon of legend.
When Artha is simultaneously required to participate in a street race, speak to the Down City Council, and Dragon City Security, Lance and Parmon volunteer to help him out by posing as the Dragon Booster, while Kitt is abducted by Moordryd's crew as a trap for the Dragon Booster.
During a marathon race, Artha and his friends fall into a trap by Moordryd and land in the ancient Track of Doom, realm of the ancient, warlike Dragon Prophets; they must convince the dragons that they have the strength to prevent a new war between dragons and humans.
Moordryd challenges a prideful Dragon Booster for ownership of the legendary dragon Beau, secretly planning to use the Furox artifact to control Beau and deliver the dragon of legend to his father.
Artha misjudges Kawake, retired champion of the sport of drag-ball, after which Word Paynn tricks Kawake into mining for black draconium directly below the city's support columns.
Artha begins to doubt himself as a leader, even as Word Paynn is capturing dragons of every element to synthesize an artificial legendary dragon of his own.
Artha is given rare deflection gear to help him win an upcoming race, but Moordryd plans to steal it, Parmon swaps it out for homemade gear of his own, and Lance replaces it with an outright fake.
Word Paynn gives Khatah a map to the bone-mark of an ancient blue dragon, but Parmon falls under its influence instead.
Beau is poisoned by liquified black draconium from Word Paynn, which gradually turns him into a black dragon under Word's control.
Moordryd and Cain kidnap Lance to lure the Dragon Booster into an ancient cave known as the "Shadow Track"; all four of them become trapped inside, and subjected to their own fears.
Moordryd has set a trap in an upcoming rookie race, and the only way to avoid it is for Artha to attempt a legendary shortcut, and somehow convince other racers to do the same.
Artha Penn (a.k.a.: The Dragon Booster), and his dragon, Beaucephalus, are lured into a trap - turning them into the evil Wraith Booster! They travel across Dragon City, turning the citizens to stone - on a mission to ignite the "human-dragon war"... Their only hope lies with their arch-rival, Moordryd Paynn, to save the day...
Artha gains media recognition and begins work as an actor for television commercials and even an upcoming film, but there is more going on behind the scenes than it appears.
The orange dragon Propheci appears in Dragon City to ask the Dragon Booster for help in stopping a civil war amongst his clan, but it is really a plot to draw the Dragon Booster away from the city so his clan can attack.
The Dragon Booster is given an ancient device for safekeeping, but Moordryd learns what the device is and steals it to use against the Dragon Booster.
A member of the Mechanists, who seems to be on no one's side but his own, appears in Dragon City to find and take the Horn of Libris.
Artha misplaces his golden amulet; Lance is tasked with recovering it while Artha tries to stop a plan by Word to breed an army of pure black dragons.
Mortis detects a powerful energy surge beneath Dragon City, and Artha insists on investigating it despite being warned that it is too powerful even for the hero of legend.
Mortis intervenes to save Artha from an elite warrior named Drakkus, but is injured during the fight; Mortis reveals himself as Artha's father (contradicting earlier official information that the two were separate characters), and Artha must find a way to release not only Beau's power, but his own as well.
Connor's vendetta against Word threatens Artha's chances of winning the sole spot at the prestigious Academy.
Artha and Beau accidentally get their minds switched by Word's Mind Gear.
Fistus gets framed, Again. Artha and Kit get framed as well. Breakout from Dragon City Precinct is staged with the help of Academy Racer Chute. Will the trio prove their innocence?.
Moordryd finds a black draconium bone mark called the Vysox and Decepshun absorbs it permanently, growing more powerful. Moordryd also finds a map leading to the Bone Marks of the League of Eight. Will Artha and Beau be able to stop them before the most powerful dragons of the Dragon Human War are released?
Word sets a trap to turn Artha and his crew into zombies; but the plan backfires on him.
Propheci returns to Dragon City looking for revenge and has captured Stewardd to be his slaved rider.
A dangerous mag blast causes the season to officially end and gives Moordryd the Academy right, but Artha rallies the other races and promises he'll race without any blasts if they keep the season going. Will he succeed?
A new company by the name of Slithercorp is training riders directly into the elite class, bypassing the academy. Kit signs up after losing a race and getting dropped out of the academy running. But is the new company legit or is it just another trap by Word Paynn.
Lance finds out about Moordryd's plan to use illegal elite gear in the upcoming Survival Dome Academy Race but nobody believes him. Will the group trimph or will they end up paying the ultimate price?.
The group go to an ancient Green draconium Stronghold where the rest disappear and Parm is tested to see if he is worthy of a great power.
Cain and a bunch of the Dragon Eyes bail on Moordryd and start their own crew. What will happen to Moordryd now?
In the final elimination race, Armeggadon tries to destroy Artha and Beau. Moordryd and Artha find out each others secret identities and join forces along with drakkus and Mortis to defeat Armeggadon in the Battle for the Ages.
Only one more Academy event remains: the Dragon City Academy Dragball Elimination Challenge, but Artha gets badly hurt fighting with the Shadow Booster. Will he take part or will he quit. Find out in the awe inspiring conclusion of Dragon Booster. The Episodes will now continue in: Dragon Booster Academy.
