Chapter Summaries

Yan Yang visited Anton to obtain TMs and chose several moves, including a Pledge Move that might let Silvally create combination effects. He left planning to test the moves and to give one to a future partner prepared by Professor.

• Anton searched for additional TMs and brought Yan Yang more than a dozen discs to choose from.
• Yan Yang examined the available moves and became interested in Grass Pledge, Fire Pledge, and Water Pledge after realizing Silvally might learn all three.
• Anton explained that Pledge Moves were obscure and generally overlooked because they were limited to starter Pokémon and seemed weaker than other attacks.
• Yan Yang chose the third Pledge Move, along with Earth Power and Rock Slide, and said he would have a starter Pokémon learn it later.
• Yan Yang planned to test whether Silvally could combine Pledge Moves and wondered how his future partner would get along with Silvally.

Yan Yang helped Silvally activate his Fire-type memory disk and tested his strength against Entei. Silvally then adapted to a Fairy-type disk as well, leaving Yan Yang ready to test his new Fire + Fairy combination.

• At home, Silvally chose a Fire-type memory disk, and Yan Yang carefully inserted it into his drive.
• Silvally transformed into a Fire type and told Yan Yang that his other types felt temporarily sealed away.
• Silvally used Multi-Attack on Entei, who took the hit and reassured Yan Yang that he was fine.
• Yan Yang inserted a Fairy-type disk into Silvally's second drive, and Silvally took a few minutes to adapt to both types.
• Yan Yang confirmed that Silvally had become Fire + Fairy and prepared to test Multi-Attack against Carvanha.

Yan Yang discovered that Silvally could master moves from TMs almost instantly but could not learn moves through instruction, likely because of a restriction in the AR System. The chapter ended with Yan Yang realizing Silvally would need more TMs to learn new moves.

• Silvally clashed with Entei using a Fire- and Fairy-type fusion move, impressing the watching Pokémon and prompting Yan Yang to praise him.
• Armorouge grew anxious as the others seemed to regard Silvally as stronger and worried that he would lose his status.
• Yan Yang gave Silvally the Fire Pledge TM, which Silvally analyzed in 0.37 seconds before demonstrating the move; he also quickly learned Water Pledge.
• Silvally told Yan Yang that he could not learn other moves by himself, and he failed to learn Heat Wave after Entei demonstrated it.
• Yan Yang suspected the AR System let Silvally learn moves implanted through TMs while preventing him from learning through instruction, and he realized that supporting Silvally could be expensive.

Yan Yang taught Silvally the three Pledge Moves, then watched it lose a battle to Armorouge as the Pokémon’s family rankings changed. The chapter ended with Silvally’s training potential revealed, the household settling back into harmony, and the second beta test concluding without incident.

• Yan Yang had Silvally learn all three Pledge Moves and attempted to combine Grass Pledge and Water Pledge, but Silvally could not yet produce the marsh effect.
• Silvally promised to analyze how to use two moves simultaneously, and Yan Yang ended its training for the day.
• Armorouge challenged Silvally, but Silvally won after a hard fight, moving into second place in the household while Armorouge fell to third.
• Yan Yang discovered that Armorouge’s Overlord Domain had gained an Awakening-move attribute, allowing Pokémon of three types to train within it.
• Yan Yang lubricated Silvally, returned Armorouge’s repaired cape, and prepared Cosmog’s candy feast as the Pokémon enjoyed each other’s company.
• The second beta test ended without anything notable happening.

Yan Yang watched Pyroar endure Armorouge’s punishing training, played a fighting game with Lycanroc, and learned Houndoom was testing a stray Nidorino to guard the home. After discussing the upcoming trial with Entei, Yan Yang prepared to begin it, though he worried about Marshadow’s arrival.

• Armorouge forced Pyroar through exhausting training while Yan Yang ignored his pleas and left the training room.
• Yan Yang played a virtual fighting game with Lycanroc, who accidentally used a hidden ultimate move to win a round.
• Yan Yang found Houndoom sparring with Nidorino and agreed that the strongest stray Pokémon could watch over the home while they were away.
• Entei told Yan Yang that Marshadow would come when the trial began and reassured him that Marshadow treated trial participants well.
• Yan Yang agreed it was time to schedule the trial, but he worried that Marshadow might be as vicious as the one in the movie.

Yan Yang traveled to Tianqing Mountain to begin Ho-Oh’s trial, which Entei made him start by standing still until the other examiners arrived. As Yan Yang waited for hours, Raikou and Suicune hurried toward the mountain and Marshadow sensed a possible new Brave of the Rainbow.

• Yan Yang left his home with his Pokémon, while Houndoom arranged for the wandering Pokémon to watch the house.
• Cosmog teleported Yan Yang and the group to the foot of Tianqing Mountain, where Yan Yang released his Pokémon and took out the Rainbow Feather.
• Entei began Yan Yang’s endurance trial, telling him to stand still until Raikou, Suicune, and Marshadow arrived.
• Yan Yang stood in the sun for nearly three hours as his Pokémon waited and grew restless, while Entei wondered why his brothers had not arrived.
• Raikou and Suicune traveled together toward Tianqing Mountain and discussed their plans for Yan Yang’s tests.
• Marshadow sensed a possible new Brave of the Rainbow and set out to find the feather’s holder.

Marshadow arrived at Tianqing Mountain and discovered Yan Yang training with Entei, then emerged after mistaking their relationship for a secret romance. The trial was set to begin when Raikou and Suicune arrived.

• Marshadow slipped into Yan Yang's shadow and watched him train beside Entei.
• Entei told Yan Yang that Marshadow had arrived, and Yan Yang called the Mythical Pokémon out by name.
• Marshadow overheard Yan Yang call Entei his dad and imagined Entei had a child with a human.
• Yan Yang and Entei explained that Entei had bestowed some of his origin power on Yan Yang, a candidate for the Brave of the Rainbow.
• Marshadow outlined its trial and warned Yan Yang that it would influence his mind when he was relaxed.
• Raikou and Suicune appeared on the horizon, bringing all the examiners together as the true trial was about to begin.

Yan Yang met Suicune and completed a casual trial by running across a river while Marshadow watched. Marshadow recognized Cosmog and wondered whether Necrozma had chosen Yan Yang, but kept its suspicions to itself as it resolved to keep him aligned with Ho-Oh.

• Raikou arrived and Entei confronted him for forgetting a duty to Silvally, then took him away to settle the matter.
• Suicune greeted Yan Yang, asked about his progress, and set his trial as running across the river.
• Yan Yang used Suicune's ribbon to run safely over the water, completing ten laps while Marshadow marveled at his favored treatment.
• Lycanroc returned carrying Cosmog, and Marshadow decided to guide her because she shared its Ghost type and homeland.
• Marshadow questioned Yan Yang about Cosmog and, after hearing about the Sun and Moon Twin Gods, suspected Necrozma had chosen him but decided not to tell him.

Yan Yang healed Raikou after Entei beat him and was excused from Raikou’s trial. The other Pokémon left him to face Marshadow’s final test alone as he began climbing toward Ho-Oh.

• Entei revoked Raikou’s authority over the trial and declared Yan Yang had passed.
• Yan Yang secretly healed Raikou, who recovered and exempted him from the trial.
• Marshadow decided to make Yan Yang’s own trial more difficult than the others’ tests.
• The Legendary Beasts departed, and Marshadow secretly invited Lycanroc to train her Ghost-type power in the spirit world.
• Yan Yang sent his Pokémon into their Poké Balls and began climbing the mountain alone toward Ho-Oh.

Yan Yang climbed toward the Rainbow Rock as Marshadow tried to draw out his dark side, but found only childish fantasies about Pokémon. After Marshadow knocked him unconscious, it trapped him in an illusion where Pokémon fled from him, leaving Yan Yang heartbroken as the trial continued.

• Yan Yang climbed the mountain, noticing the many Pokémon gathered along the path and recalling the danger Marshadow posed.
• Marshadow searched Yan Yang’s thoughts but found only harmless wishes to pet Pokémon, meet Legendary Pokémon, and make Pokémon his family.
• Marshadow twisted Yan Yang’s thoughts into a darker illusion, knocked him unconscious, and made his Evergreen Power and Inner Focus fail to protect him.
• Yan Yang awoke in the illusion with his memories gone and eagerly approached the Pokémon, but they all ran away from him.
• Marshadow watched Yan Yang cry in his sleep and deepened the illusion, deciding to intervene only if Yan Yang was close to succeeding.

Yan Yang searched for a way out of the forest but followed a Pokémon’s cry for help and drew a wolf pack away from Rockruff. Cornered and wounded, he discovered that he had extraordinary strength and flames surrounding his body.

• Yan Yang ran through the seemingly endless forest and, after night fell, fled from a huge python in a tree.
• Hearing a plea for help, Yan Yang found Rockruff surrounded by five wolves and distracted them so she could escape.
• Rockruff returned to her cave and told Litleo and Houndour what had happened; they decided to look for Yan Yang and thank him.
• The wolf pack chased Yan Yang to a rock wall, where he kicked one wolf away with unexpected strength before the others wounded him.
• As the lead wolf moved to attack Yan Yang, it recoiled in fear when fierce flames suddenly ignited around his body.

Yan Yang drove off a hungry wolf pack with fireballs, then woke cold and naked after his clothes burned away. He continued through the forest seeking Pokémon that felt familiar from his dreams, determined to find the source of the warmth he remembered.

• Yan Yang formed fireballs and drove the attacking wolves into the fog, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yan Yang woke before dawn, discovered his clothes had burned away, and made a grass skirt to cover himself.
• Yan Yang tried to warm himself with flames, but they burned up his skirt without easing his cold, so he searched for shelter until the weather warmed.
• Yan Yang caught a frightened Sentret, reassured it, and released it; Sentret reconsidered its fear of humans.
• Yan Yang watched Pokémon interact in the forest, grew disillusioned by their conflicts, and resolved to find the familiar figures from his dreams.

Yan Yang found a grieving Armorouge beside his dead younger sister, Skrelp, and recognized him as the Pokémon connected to his dreams. After Armorouge rejected Yan Yang’s request to become family and left, Yan Yang collapsed, and Armorouge returned to save him from a leopard.

• Yan Yang found Armorouge destroying trees in grief after Skrelp died from her illness.
• Armorouge attacked Yan Yang, but Yan Yang returned Skrelp’s body and recognized the familiar warmth he had felt in his dreams.
• Yan Yang told Armorouge he had lost his own family and asked to become his family, but Armorouge refused and left with Skrelp.
• Yan Yang cried after Armorouge left, then collapsed asleep in the forest.
• A leopard tried to kill Yan Yang, but Armorouge returned and smashed the leopard with his tail hammer.
• Armorouge realized Yan Yang was dangerously weak and wondered what Pokémon would make a vow beside a human’s grave.

Armorouge brought Yan Yang back to his cave and began treating him as someone to protect, while Yan Yang hoped they could become family. Houndour, Litleo, and Rockruff searched for Yan Yang, and the chapter left them following a clue toward where he had gone.

• Armorouge carried Yan Yang and a leopard back to his cave, thinking Yan Yang might fill the emptiness left by Skrelp.
• Houndour, Litleo, and Rockruff searched the forest for Yan Yang and learned from Sentret which way he had gone.
• Yan Yang woke in Armorouge's cave wearing a leopard-skin skirt and eagerly hugged Armorouge, who threw him aside without hurting him.
• Yan Yang roasted the leopard meat with fire from his hand, impressing Armorouge, who decided the human could cook for him.
• Armorouge forced Yan Yang to swallow a piece of meat after Yan Yang said he did not eat meat.

Armorouge cared for Yan Yang through illness and cold, then agreed to protect him temporarily as a little brother. Yan Yang accepted, and Armorouge was left shaken by gestures that reminded him of Skrelp.

• Yan Yang refused Armorouge’s roasted meat, then became ill and vomited on him when Armorouge returned to the cave.
• Armorouge gave Yan Yang crushed herbs and his dry-grass bed, then stayed beside him while he recovered.
• When Yan Yang shivered and clung to Armorouge in his sleep, Armorouge skipped training and held him to keep him warm.
• Yan Yang woke in Armorouge’s embrace and asked about becoming part of a dragon’s family.
• Armorouge offered to protect Yan Yang as a temporary little brother, and Yan Yang touched the Dragon’s Maw on his chest.
• Armorouge declared Yan Yang his temporary little brother and demanded that he prove himself worthy of dragonkind’s protection.

Yan Yang trained under Armorouge and encountered Houndour, Rockruff, and Litleo in Armorouge’s territory. Armorouge reluctantly allowed Yan Yang to raise Rockruff and Litleo, while Yan Yang still searched for Liepard.

• Armorouge made Yan Yang train by lifting a boulder, coached his stance, and set his future training intensity based on Yan Yang’s 150-kilogram limit.
• Houndour, Rockruff, and Litleo reached Armorouge’s territory, where Armorouge caught Houndour after Yan Yang rushed over and was bitten.
• Armorouge let Houndour go and recognized something of himself in Houndour’s loyalty to his companions.
• Yan Yang caught Rockruff and Litleo and asked Armorouge to let him raise them, promising to care for them himself.
• Armorouge reluctantly agreed to Yan Yang’s request.

Yan Yang welcomed Rockruff, Litleo, and Houndour into Armorouge’s territory, then tried to win their trust and become their big brother. After feeding and grooming Rockruff, he finally earned her acceptance, though Houndour still struggled with the idea of family.

• Armorouge let the three Pokémon join his territory and led them through nearly two hours of training.
• Yan Yang asked Litleo, Rockruff, and Houndour to become his close family, but Rockruff resisted and Houndour was unsure about family.
• Yan Yang took the three Pokémon to gather Berries, climbing a tree to pick fruit they could not reach.
• After eating, Rockruff let Yan Yang touch her, but she grew angry when he ruffled her fur and messed it up.
• Yan Yang groomed Rockruff with Comb-grass and decorated her fur with forget-me-nots, earning her agreement to recognize him as her big brother.

Yan Yang and the three young Pokémon faced a pack of Houndoom that invaded Armorouge’s territory and tried to capture them. Yan Yang revealed unexpected strength as Litleo went to fetch Armorouge, leaving Yan Yang and the others to hold off the pack.

• Yan Yang cared for Rockruff, tried to win over Litleo, and grew closer to Houndour as they spent time together in the territory.
• Five or six Houndoom led by a powerful leader invaded, wrecked the land, killed animals, and surrounded Yan Yang and the three young Pokémon.
• Houndour recognized the pack as his former companions and warned Yan Yang that they were vicious.
• Yan Yang kicked an attacking Houndoom several meters away, stunning the pack and prompting its leader to challenge him.
• Yan Yang sent Litleo to fetch Armorouge while Houndour and Rockruff stayed with him.

Yan Yang and the pups escaped a pack of Houndoom after Yan Yang unexpectedly used Teleportation, and Armorouge drove off the attackers. Yan Yang encouraged Houndour to stop fearing evolution, and the newly evolved Houndoom gave him the final familiar feeling he had been missing from his dreams.

• The leader Houndoom called six others to attack Yan Yang, but their bites barely pierced his unusually tough skin.
• Houndour rushed to help Yan Yang, and Yan Yang used Teleportation to carry him beside Rockruff before trying to flee with both pups.
• Yan Yang collapsed when his weakened period began, but Armorouge arrived and defeated the Houndoom pack.
• After Yan Yang woke, he encouraged Houndour to evolve instead of holding himself back because he feared becoming like the other Houndoom.
• Houndour evolved into Houndoom, and Yan Yang recognized the familiar feeling from his dreams in the newly evolved Pokémon.

Yan Yang persuaded Litleo to accept him as family after learning that Litleo feared losing friends because Hawlucha had left without saying goodbye. He celebrated gaining every Pokémon’s recognition, then noted that the mixed pool was in the second half and he could not pull anything yet.

• Armorouge returned covered in blood after killing the Houndoom invaders and told Yan Yang not to pity them.
• Yan Yang tried to coax Litleo into joining his companions, but Litleo hid and refused.
• Houndoom and Rockruff explained that Litleo feared making new friends after Hawlucha flew away without saying goodbye.
• Yan Yang reassured Litleo that he would not abandon him, then held and kissed him until Litleo agreed to become family.
• Yan Yang celebrated having everyone’s recognition and said the mixed pool was in the second half, so he could not pull anything yet.