Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Booster, although I wish I did and if I did own it, then I would keep the series going.

BTW: I have made some changes, so I hope you like it. Also give me some reviews and tell me how you like it and if you want me to continue.

"AHHH!" Artha shouted as he was hit by one of the Shadow Boosters mag ball and thrown into the snow covered rocks. Swallowing the pain of his ribs, Artha gets back up and resumes fighting the Shadow Booster. On the ground, an already wounded and weakened Beau is trying his best to fend off the Shadow Boosters dragon. But with all the snow on the ground, finding grip makes it difficult for either dragon to get the upper hand while at the same time keeping their rides up in the air.

"Give up Dragon Booster, you are finished."

"N-Never!" Kicking the Shadow Booster off of him, Artha throws mag balls at him. Dodging all but one, the Shadow Booster is thrown into the rocks. As the snow dust begins to clear, a powerful mag ball is thrown at Artha and hits him directly in the stomach. Groaning and in severe pain, Artha forces himself to lunges forward at the Shadow Booster but just then Beau slips on the ice, giving the Shadow Boosters Dragon an opening. Giving a powerful blow, Beau is sent flying and crashes hard into the rocks. Stunned, Beau lets go of Artha. As Artha is falling, the Shadow Booster traps him with his mag beam and throws him hard into the rocks beside his stunned Dragon. Coughing up blood and holding his side, a badly injured Artha tries to stand up but fails.

"Good, now use the mag rip and drain their energy!" Armeggadon told the Shadow Booster

Soon after using the mag rip on them, Artha and Beau fall unconscious.

"Stop! Leave them here and let the dragn Booster freeze to death. They are too weak to move and the Dragon Booster is close to death. Finsh what your father wanted you to do and come back here. By then the Dragon Booster will be gone and you will be free to take the black and gold dragon of legend."

"But won't the black and gold dragon die too?"

"No, he has not been fatally hurt like his rider. He will still be alive by the time you get back."

Leaving, the Shadow Booster lets the cold finish Artha off. After laying there for a few minutes, Artha's condition continues to get worse as he continues to lose more blood and his body temperature drops. Beau, even though he too is very weak and is unconscious, somehow senses Artha's life on the line and wakes up. Summoning the strength he never knew he had, Beau stands up and carefully picks up Artha's limp body with his mag beam and gently puts him back on the saddle.

Grunting with severe pain and coughing up blood, Artha wakes up.

"Urh! B-Beau…" Artha weakly said before coughing up some more blood and passing out.

Beau, knowing that Artha does not have much time and needs help fast, limps off toward home.

At the stables.

"I'm worried something happened to Artha! I mean he should have been back by now." Kitt said as she continued to pace behind Parm, who was trying to pick back up Artha's signal that was lost after that one mag hit Artha received to the head.

"I'm certain that he is umm… fine and is umm… heading back now. Yes!" Parm tried to comfort Kitt.

"He better be here soon!" Kitt thought, looking out the window. "What is that?" Kitt said as she saw something moving out in the blizzard. "Is that Beau?" Sensing that something is very wrong once she saw Beau limping, Kitt tells everyone and runs out into the blizzard. Seeing everyone running towards him, Beau mags Artha off of the saddle and gently lays him on the snow covered ground before collapsing and falling unconscious.

"This is bad!" Connor said as he took in Artha's condition. "We need to get him to the hospital now! Parm, Lance, you stay here and take care of Beau. Kitt you are coming with me." Connor said as he looked over Beau's condition. "Beau is severely hurt and weak but he will live, Artha though, needs medical help fast!"

Picking up Artha, Connor takes him over to the trailer and gently lays him down inside it, using the trailer to shield him from the blizzard and to transport him to the hospital. After he removed the amulet, changing Artha back into himself again, Kitt ran into the trailer with some blankets.

"You stay in here with him and try to warm him up." Connor said as he ran out and closed the trailer door. Using Parm's dragon, after they got Beau into the stables, to pull the trailer, Connor rushes off to the hospital. Putting the blankets over top of Artha, she takes off his helmet and puts his head on her lap.

"Don't you dare die on me Artha?" Kitt told him as she cleans the blood off his face. "Don't you die?"

Once at the hospital, Artha is rushed into the emergency room.

After the doctor's stabilized him and got his body temperature back up, they told Connor and Kit of his injuries.

"Well, I am just going to come out with it. Artha's condition is very grim, he has a severe concussion, broken ribs, a collapsed and punctured lung, lost a lot of blood and still is losing blood caused by his internal bleeding. We would operate on him but he is just too weak and most likely will not survive the surgery to stop the bleeding and remove the bone fragment that has punctured his lung. We can only hope that the internal bleeding naturally stops soon and he survives the night!"

"May we go see him?" Kitt asked, on the verge of tears.

"Yes!"

Once they entered the room, they see an unconscious Artha hooked up to an IV drip, a blood transfussion, bandages wrapped around his head and an oxygen mask over his mouth. Rushing over to his side, Kitt hears just how shallow and hoarse his breathing is. Touching his hand, hoping to get a reaction from him, but gets nothing from him; she puts down her head on the side of the bed in despair.

"This is all my fault, if only I went with him. I could have saved him and Beau from getting this badly hurt." Kitt cried. "Now he doesn't have a very good chance of surviving the night."

"I have an idea that might help Artha." Connor said as he went over to Artha's side. Channeling mag energy from the bond of his ancient dragon, he shot a little mag beam, from his finger, into Artha's chest. Screaming with pain, Artha comes to but only a little.

"Artha, can you hear me? ARTHA!" Kitt said but Artha passed out again with a cough. Releasing the mag beam, Connor sits down with a sign.

"What did you do?" Kit asked.

"I used the mag beam to move the bone fragment out of his lung so that way he can breathe better and have a better chance of surviving the night. Noticing that his breathing is coming easier to him, Kitt grabs his hand again. Even though Artha is breathing better, his heart rate is still very weak and slow.

"I have an idea!" Kitt suddenly said.

"What is it?"

"When Artha used the mag energy from the orange dragons to restore his power, after the Shadow Booster used the mag rip on him before, that energy also went to Beau. Maybe if we somehow give Beau our dragon's mag energy then it will make Artha stronger for the surgery."

"Maybe!"

Just then the machines hooked up to Artha started to beep. Rushing in, the Doctors look over Artha.

"We cannot afford to wait any longer, he needs surgery now!" One of the Doctors said.

"But he might not survive the surgery!" Another Doctor said.

"It is a risk we are going to have to take in order to save his life."

Taking Artha and rushing off into the surgery room, they leave Connor and Kitt behind.

"Well, there is no time to think of another idea." Connor said as he contacted Parm.

"Parm, I need you to use Kitt's dragon to fire a mag beam at Artha's jack stick and using a mag charge, transferee that energy into Beau now."

"You got it Mr. Penn." Parm said as he disconnected and set to work.

Once they got everything ready, Parm had Wyldfyr fire a mag beam into Artha jack stick. Transferring the mag energy from the jack stick to the mag charge Beau starts to gain strength.

"It's working!" Parm said. "Come on Wyldfyr, give it all you got!"

After a little more energy went into Beau, he woke up. Beau, knowing that his rider needed strength, sent him most of his energy.

Artha's POV

"URHHH!" Artha screamed. "K-kitt" Artha wanted to say as he saw Kit come into his view but was just too weak and he slipped back into darkness.

"Dark, why is it so Dark?" Artha thought. "Urh! I hurt so much." He said as he was doubled over and holding his side.

"What is that light?" Artha thought as he looked up to see a little white light suddenly appear in front of him. Limping, Athta starts to slowly make his way towards it. As he limps closer to the light, the light gets bigger and his pain starts to go away. Once he was fully engolfed in the white light, his pain disappears.

Regular POV

Back in the surgery room, Artha is not doing so good. His life is slipping away, even as the Doctors are trying to save him.

"No, we're losing him." One of the Doctors said as Artha's heart rate started to drop till he finally flat lined. Getting the paddles ready, they shock his heart several times but to no avail.

"Come on Artha! Again! Clear!" Still his heart still fails to beet.

"Clear!"

"That's it, he's done!" Another Doctor signed in defeat.

Leaving the surgery room, the Doctor goes up to Connor and Kit..

"Mr. Penn, Kitt, I am afraid that Artha did not survive the surgery. He died half way into the surgery. I'm sorry but we just could not save him. He was too badly injured and weak."

"No! He can't be dead?" Kitt cried outloud.

Not believing that her best friend is dead, Kitt runs into the surgery room. As soon as she enters the room, she stops, with a gasp. There, right in front of her, is the life less form of her best friend and the Dragon Booster; the rest of the Doctors that were in the room leave, to give the young girl some privacy. Slowly, in shock, Kitt walks over to him, and collapses onto his still chest and finally cries.

"Artha you can't go!" Kitt violently cried. "Beau needs you, the world needs, your father and brother need you." And silently, Kitt says to him. "I need you Artha. Please don't leave me!"

"I-I love you!"

Artha's POV

Floating in his little white world, Artha hears something.

"No, we're losing him!"

"Losing Who?" Artha thought.

"Come on Artha! Again! Clear!"

"Come on what?" Artha thought again, getting confused.

"That's it, he's done!"

"Done What?"

"Artha you can't go!"

"Kitt?"

"Beau needs you, the world needs you!"

"Beau! The dragon, human war!" Artha started to remember.

"Your father and brother needs you!"

"Dad, Lance!" Artha thought but then Kitt's voice started to fade. "Kitt!"

"I need you Artha! Please don't go!"

"Kit wait!"

"I-I love you" Kitt's voice cried as it completly faded away.

"KITt!" Artha screamed as he reached out. "Wait! Losing him? He's done? Please don't go? Artha said as he started to put everything together.

"Wait, I'm dead!" Artha suddenly realized. The next thing Artha knew was that the white world sudddenly disapeared and he saw Kitt crying on his life less chest.

"No, this is wrong! I can't be dead! Too many people are counting on me." Artha said as he started to go towards his body. Just then, something started to pull him away.

"No! I am not dead! I am going back! The world needs. Kitt needs me!" But even as he fought with all his might, the pull was too strong and he was just too weak.

"BEAU!" Artha screamed, hoping that somehow he could help him. Feeling Beau was somehow with him and is giving him his strength, Artha fights even harder and then is suddenly cast back into his body and back into the pain.

Regular POV

As Kitt continues to cry on Artha's still chest, she suddenly hears one single heart beet. Just then Artha's body starts to glow a gold color and ever so slowly his heart rate starts to climb and he starts to breath.

"He's alive!" Kitt Screamed. "He's alive!"

Running in the Doctors took Kitt out.

"This is impossible! How did he come back?" One of the Doctors said.

"It doesn't matter, he came back and now we have one more shot at saving him."

After they were done with the surgery, they wheeled him into the recovery room and went out to confront Connor and Kitt.

"Well Mr. Penn, it seems like you have one strong boy. He came back and survived the rest of the surgery. He will make a full recovery."

Jumping with joy, Connor and Kitt go into the recovery room to see Artha, but before they enter, the doctor stops them.

"Just to let you know, he is still unconscious and most likely will stay unconscious for at least a day or so and he also has a tube down his throat to help him breathe easier and better as his lungs are still collapsed but they should heal up soon."

After the doctor told them about Artha he let them in.

"Your idea worked Kitt, you saved Artha's life!" Connor told Kitt.

"But he didn't get the strength from Beau until after he died. How did he come back?"

"I do not know how he came back, but I am glad he did."

After staying with him for a little bit more, Connor goes back home to check on Beau but Kitt stays with Artha the rest of the night and into the morning. By afternoon, a nurse comes in the room and takes out the breathing tube.

"Wait, why are you taking it out? It is helping him to breathe better." Kitt said to the nurse.

"I am taking out the breathing tube because he is fighting against it. That is a sign that his lungs are healing and that he has regained some strength." After the nurse took out the breathing tube, Artha started to cough weakly but no blood came out.

"That is a very good sign." The nurse said as she finished taking care of Artha and changing the bandages around Artha's head and stomach.

During the rest of the day, Kitt only left Artha's side to eat and use the bathroom. Late in the night, after Kitt fell asleep beside Artha, while still holding his hand, Artha begins to wake up.

"Mmm… Urh…" Artha mumbles."Whe-Where am I? Looking around, he finds himself in the hospital. "Oh, I am in the hospital." Artha thought as he tried to shift his head around to a more comfortable position. Hissing with pain from his concussion, he touches his head and feels the bandages around it. "Drac! my head." Feeling something warm in his right hand Artha looks over to see it was Kitt, slumped over on hi bed, asleep while holding his hand. Squeezing her hand a little, Artha trys to wake her up. Feeling this Kitt wakes up to see big teal blue eyes looking directly at her. "K-kitt!" Artha ever so weakly whispered, feeling a little dizzy and pale from losing so much blood.

"ARTHA!" Kitt screamed as she wrapped him in a hug.

"Gah! Oww! Kitt that hur…" Artha was weakly trying to say but was cut off when Kitt's lips crushed into his with a kiss.

"I love you Artha, please don't ever do this to me again!" Kitt cried into his chest. Weakly wrapping his arms around Kitt in as fierce of a hug as he could manage and putting his head against hers, he says.

"I love you too Kitt!" Looking up at him, their lips meet once again in a more gentle, passionate kiss.

Breaking off, they return to hugging each other. Just then Connor, Lance and Parm walked in.

"Dad!" Artha said weakly. "Parm, Lance!"

"Artha, I am so glad that you are alright and awake." Connor said as he walked over to his son and gentle hugged him.

"You know you scared us half to death! I mean, showing up like that in the middle of the worse blizzard we have ever had in a century. Dying and then coming back like that."

"It's nice to see you too Parm!" As he hugged he best friend.

"I thought I was going to lose you again Artha!" Lance cried as he too hugged his brother.

"It will take more than that to get rid of me. How is Beau? Is he alright?" Artha asked his father after he was done hugging his brother.

"Well, I don't know, why don't you ask him yourself?" Connor said as he opened up the window right beside Artha's bed. Stunned by the cold and the bright light at first, Artha looks over to see Beau's head pop in.

"Beau! I'm so glad to see you." Artha weakly cried as he hugged Beau's head.

"We are all happy to see you Artha!" Connor said as they all hugged Artha.

"Gah.. I don't think my ribs are happy to see you though." Artha joked making everyone chuckle with laughter.

After a few more days in the hospital, Artha was finally released. Having been ordered to stay on bed rest for a few more days, Artha just could not take it and tries to keep up out of bed and go see Beau, who is also still healing from the fight. Once Artha finally succeeded in getting up out of his bed, he tries to walk for the door just when Kitt walked in with some more pain medication.

"Artha wh-"Kitt started to say but stopped as she raced to catch Artha from falling over with the pain of his still healing injuries.

"Artha, you know you are too hurt to try and walk."

"Gah... Urh... I know... Urh... But I want to get out of here and go see Beau." Seeing that it would be pointless to talk Arha out of it, Kitt helps him to the stables.

"Hey Boy!" Artha said as hugged Beau's head once he was in the stables. "Looks like that leg of yours is healing up good." Artha said as he looked at Beau's wrapped up left front leg.

"What's wrong?" Kitt asked, seeing Artha's troubled expression.

"What happens if the Dragon Booster is needed again before Beau and I are healed up enough to fight?"

"That is why you have us to help you fight." Connor said as he, Lance and Parm walked into the stable.

"Yeah, and we will never let the Shadow Booster hurt you this badly again." Kitt said as she turn to face him, looking like she wanted to kiss him again but Artha, even though he already kissed her before, was too shy to do it in front of everyone.

Beau, seeing this and having such a deep bond with his rider, knows what Artha wants to do but just needs a little help, gentle bumps him towards Kitt. The force of the pump sents Artha going towards Kitt. Kitt then grabs Artha's collar and pulls hi the rest of the way toward her lips and they once again meet in a passionate kiss. Shocked that Kitt would just grab him like that to kiss him, even with the others watching, Artha stares wide eyed before rolling his eyes to the back on his head and passionatly kisses her back.

"Gah! It burns!" Lance cried as he shielded his eyes.

"Well! It's about time!" Parm said as he knew that Artha has loved her ever since he laid eyes on her but was just too shy to admit it; Artha's father just looked on at the scene unfolding before him, like he expected it to happen. Breaking away from the kiss and smirking from Artha's dump, happy expression, Kitt looks at Beau.

"Thank you Beau!" Making Beau lift up his head high and chuckle. Wrapping her arms around Artha's neck she leans towards him again to meet his lips.

Well, I hoped you liked it. I think this turned out great. I may add another chapter to this story that will tell more of Artha's recovery and the romance going on between Artha and Kitt. Who knows what I will decide to do. Just going to have to wait and see I guess. Also, please sign the petition to bring Dragon Booster back.