Chapter Summaries

Xiaoyun and Dawn visited the Great Marsh to catch Pokémon, then encountered Paul battling a Drapion. Paul’s Nidoking knocked Drapion back and prepared to finish the fight with Earth Power.

• Xiaoyun earned the Fen Badge, and he and Dawn rested in Pastoria City before visiting the Great Marsh.
• Xiaoyun and Dawn bought Safari Balls and heard Trainers talking about a powerful Bug King in the marsh.
• Dawn and Xiaoyun each threw many Safari Balls but failed to catch any Pokémon.
• A ground-shaking battle led Xiaoyun and Dawn to Paul, whose Nidoking was fighting a Drapion.
• Paul’s Nidoking countered Drapion’s X-Scissor with Double Kick, sending Drapion flying, and Paul ordered Earth Power.

Paul caught a powerful Drapion in the Great Marsh while Xiaoyun struggled to catch any Pokémon. Xiaoyun then encountered a fiery Shiny Skorupi and began battling it with Monferno.

• Paul defeated Drapion with Nidoking and caught it with a Safari Ball on his first try.
• Xiaoyun and Dawn spoke with Paul about Drapion being called the Bug King before Paul left with Nidoking.
• Xiaoyun spotted a red Skorupi, but it broke out of his Safari Ball and attacked him with Pin Missile.
• Monferno burned away Skorupi’s Pin Missile with Flamethrower, and Skorupi answered with a matching burst of fire.
• Skorupi used X-Scissor to attack Monferno, and Xiaoyun ordered Monferno to use Mach Punch.

Xiaoyun finally caught the Shiny Skorupi after repeated failed attempts, while Paul secretly watched Monferno battle and reflected that it was being raised well. After Dawn caught a Swinub and they returned to Hearthome City, Xiaoyun and Dawn began a practice battle that ended with Xiaoyun ordering Skorupi to use Poison Tail.

• Xiaoyun caught Skorupi on his eighteenth Safari Ball attempt after Monferno defeated it.
• Paul watched Monferno battle, acknowledged that it was being raised well, and left with Nidoking.
• Dawn caught a Swinub with her Poffins, and she and Xiaoyun finished their Great Marsh trip.
• Xiaoyun and Dawn returned to Hearthome City after several days of travel and practiced with Skorupi and Swinub.
• Skorupi's X-Scissor clashed with Swinub's Take Down, and Xiaoyun then commanded Skorupi to use Poison Tail.

Xiaoyun showed Dawn that his Shiny Skorupi could inflict a powerful fire poison, then accepted fashion designer Paris's invitation to a competition after Dawn persuaded him. The pair prepared to enter, with Xiaoyun agreeing to design Dawn's outfit.

• Skorupi struck Swinub with fire poison and X-Scissor, and Dawn's Antidote failed to help.
• Xiaoyun treated Swinub with a Poffin and explained Skorupi's unusual fire poison and its talent for Fire-type moves.
• Paris approached Xiaoyun and Dawn and invited them to enter her Fashion Design Competition.
• Dawn recognized Paris as a designer she admired and persuaded Xiaoyun to join the competition.
• Dawn asked Xiaoyun to design her clothes, then kissed him and promised more affection if he did well.

Xiaoyun helped Dawn prepare for Paris’s fashion design competition, where Dawn and Lopunny won with an elegant, understated presentation. Paris crowned Dawn and later featured her photograph on a magazine cover, earning Dawn the title Sinnoh Princess.

• Xiaoyun reunited with Ash and learned that Ash, Zoey, and Brock had entered the competition after Fantina left Hearthome City.
• Xiaoyun defended Dawn when a haughty young lady insulted her at registration.
• Dawn chose a simple design after realizing the competition should showcase a Pokémon’s beauty, and Xiaoyun encouraged her before the show.
• Ash, Zoey, Jessie, and the young lady presented their outfits before Dawn and Lopunny transformed the stage with an elegant gown and Ice Beam display.
• Paris praised Dawn’s presentation, and Dawn and Lopunny won the competition as Paris crowned Dawn and later used her photograph as a magazine cover.

Xiaoyun and Dawn took shelter in the Old Chateau, where a strange butler welcomed them and tried to lure them into eating food that was only an illusion. Darkrai disrupted the hypnosis, leaving the group facing the manor’s unexplained danger.

• Xiaoyun and Dawn entered the Old Chateau and accepted the gaunt butler’s offer of a room and a meal.
• As the butler led them upstairs, a figure in a corridor painting flashed red and began to move, and the butler smiled after shutting them in their room.
• Darkrai sensed something wrong and went to investigate while Xiaoyun found a diary describing Rotom research and a researcher connected to Cyrus and Team Galactic.
• The butler served an elaborate feast, then imposed a rule that Xiaoyun and Dawn had to eat the food on their plates first.
• The butler’s strange power made empty plates appear full, but Darkrai stopped Xiaoyun and Dawn and recognized that they were under Hypnosis.

Xiaoyun and Dawn discovered that the manor’s butler was Gengar and that Rotom had been hiding there, then learned why the Pokémon distrusted humans. Gengar began recounting a visitor’s deadly search for Rotom twenty years earlier, ending as the visitor attacked the butler’s children.

• Darkrai freed Xiaoyun and Dawn from hypnosis, and Xiaoyun realized the butler’s story involved Rotom.
• The butler revealed himself as Gengar, while Rotom emerged from a hallway painting.
• Gengar and Rotom attacked Xiaoyun, but Darkrai defeated them and forced Rotom out of its Heat form.
• Gengar and Rotom explained that they feared humans because of what had happened at the Old Chateau twenty years earlier.
• Gengar recounted how a researcher’s rival arrived seeking Rotom, poisoned the family’s food, killed the butler, and charged toward the butler’s children.

Xiaoyun learned how the Old Chateau’s Gengar and Rotom had survived the murder of their owners, then offered to take them along. Rotom accepted, while Gengar chose Dawn and settled into her shadow.

• Gengar told Xiaoyun that it had only drained travelers’ vitality and had not killed them.
• Xiaoyun offered Gengar and Rotom the chance to leave the Old Chateau and travel with him.
• Rotom accepted Xiaoyun’s offer, but Gengar chose to accompany Dawn instead.
• Xiaoyun gave Dawn Gengar’s Poké Ball, and Gengar emerged and merged into her shadow.

After a strange night at the vanished Old Chateau, Xiaoyun and Dawn hurried to Professor Rowan’s Mt. Coronet summer program and joined the blue team with Conway. The program began with team assignments and Pokémon to care for, and Dawn met her Grimer.

• Xiaoyun discovered that Gengar had entered Dawn’s shadow to protect her, and the Old Chateau vanished by morning.
• Xiaoyun and Dawn flew toward Mt. Coronet on Aerodactyl and arrived late, but Professor Rowan welcomed them without scolding Xiaoyun.
• Xiaoyun told Barry that he and Dawn had played a murder mystery game the night before.
• Xiaoyun, Dawn, and Conway drew places on the blue team, while Ash, Brock, Zoey, and Barry joined the red team and the Rocket Trio joined the green team.
• Dawn released her assigned Grimer, which happily lunged toward her.

Xiaoyun received Gogoat as his weeklong partner and agreed to let Professor Rowan test a Rotom Pokédex with his Rotom. Rotom consented and stayed with Professor Rowan for the experiment.

• Dawn was chased by her assigned Grimer, while Ash received Raichu, Brock received Magnemite, Zoey received Beautifly, and Barry received Ludicolo.
• Xiaoyun opened his Poké Ball and met Gogoat, a Pokémon from the Kalos Region that was missing from Dawn’s Sinnoh Pokédex.
• Professor Rowan told the Trainers to bond with their assigned Pokémon before randomized battles the next day.
• Professor Rowan asked Xiaoyun to lend him Rotom for research into a Rotom Pokédex based on Professor Kukui’s findings.
• Xiaoyun explained the experiment to Rotom, which agreed, and left Rotom in Professor Rowan’s care for the next few days.

Xiaoyun learned about Gogoat’s moves and spent time with his Pokémon as the summer camp began. The next morning, Conway defeated Zoey in the first team battle, giving Xiaoyun’s blue team its first point.

• Xiaoyun watched Gogoat demonstrate Horn Leech, Grassy Terrain, Leaf Blade, Seed Bomb, and Synthesis, then let his Pokémon out to meet it.
• Dawn adjusted to Grimer, while Barry bonded with Ludicolo, and the campers finished their first day together.
• The laboratory assistant woke the Trainers for a morning run, then Tony explained the battle rules for the three teams.
• Conway’s Venonat redirected Zoey’s Beautifly’s Silver Wind with Confusion, then pulled it into Supersonic’s range and confused it.
• Conway’s Venonat hit Beautifly with Psybeam and won the match, earning Xiaoyun’s blue team its first point.

Dawn lost her test battle with Teacher Brock’s Magnemite, while Xiaoyun reassured her before facing Barry and his Ludicolo with Gogoat. Barry’s opening Grass-type attack failed because Gogoat’s Sap Sipper absorbed it, leaving the battle underway as Ludicolo switched to Ice Beam.

• Dawn sent out Grimer and used Mud Shot against Teacher Brock’s Magnemite, but Iron Defense blocked the attacks.
• Teacher Brock’s Magnemite paralyzed Grimer with Thunder Wave and then knocked it out with Thunderbolt.
• Xiaoyun comforted the disappointed Dawn after her loss, but Barry called him over to battle.
• Xiaoyun sent out Gogoat as Barry began the match by ordering Ludicolo to use Bullet Seed.
• Gogoat absorbed Bullet Seed with Sap Sipper, so Barry ordered Ludicolo to use Ice Beam.

Xiaoyun battled Barry, using Gogoat’s evasive tactics and decoys to outmaneuver Ludicolo. Gogoat’s surprise Leaf Blade knocked Ludicolo unconscious, leaving Barry protesting Xiaoyun’s sneaky strategy.

• Xiaoyun had Gogoat dodge Ludicolo’s Ice Beam by striking the ground with Vine Whip, then attack with Horn Leech.
• Gogoat charged with Leaf Blade as Barry ordered Ludicolo to use Hydro Pump.
• Xiaoyun had Gogoat create Double Team duplicates, and Barry swept them away with Hydro Pump.
• The Gogoat on the field were all decoys, while the real Gogoat appeared above Ludicolo using Vine Whip.
• Gogoat struck Ludicolo with Leaf Blade, knocking it out, and Barry accused Xiaoyun of cheating.

Xiaoyun joined the summer camp’s field survey at a nearby lake, where he and Dawn sketched Pokémon and each other. As they enjoyed a quiet moment together, the Rocket Trio argued over their drawings, then laughed at James’s bizarre Magikarp sketch.

• Xiaoyun’s team narrowly beat the other campers in the final score and took first place before the camp moved on to theory lessons and a lake survey.
• At the lake, Xiaoyun released his Pokémon and told them to relax, stopping Skorupi from picking a fight with Monferno.
• Dawn struggled to row a small boat until Xiaoyun guided her, and they headed onto the lake to sketch Pokémon.
• Dawn drew a Goldeen, while Xiaoyun secretly sketched Dawn; she was delighted when he showed her the portrait.
• Meowth and Jessie argued over their drawings of Meowzie and Dustox, then James unveiled his Magikarp sketch and they laughed at it.

James kicked Magikarp into the lake, provoking a newly evolved Gyarados that capsized Xiaoyun and Dawn’s boat. After Xiaoyun rescued Dawn and his Pokémon subdued Gyarados, Xiaoyun confessed his feelings, and Dawn accepted.

• James kicked Magikarp into the lake, and Gyarados emerged and blasted Team Rocket with Hyper Beam.
• Gyarados’s Twister overturned Xiaoyun and Dawn’s boat, and Dawn fell into the water.
• Xiaoyun rescued Dawn underwater while Sceptile defeated Gyarados and drove it ashore, where Xiaoyun’s Pokémon swarmed it.
• Xiaoyun explained the accident to Ash and the others, while Bai Mu apologized and Zoey checked on Dawn.
• That night, Xiaoyun asked Dawn to be together, and Dawn agreed and told him she liked him.

Xiaoyun received the upgraded Rotom Pokédex from Professor Rowan and used it to scan his Shiny Skorupi. During the nighttime mountain trial, Dawn followed a ghost girl into ruins, where a Dusknoir confronted her and the girl unleashed a threatening attack.

• Xiaoyun and Dawn arrived at class together, and Professor Rowan taught the students about Ghost-type Pokémon before arranging a nighttime mountain trial to find a Badge.
• Xiaoyun joined Dawn and Conway's team, then went with Professor Rowan and met the newly converted Rotom Pokédex.
• Xiaoyun tested Rotom's scanning function on his Shiny Skorupi, and Rotom later located Dawn by connecting to her Pokédex.
• Dawn and Conway encountered Drifloon carrying the Badge, but the Drifloon escaped, so Conway chased them while Dawn waited with Piplup.
• A ghost girl appeared and led Dawn through the mountains to some ruins, where a Dusknoir blocked the entrance.
• The ghost girl returned wrapped in dark energy and sent tendrils toward Dawn and Dusknoir, who attacked with a Shadow Ball.

Gengar, Sceptile, and Dusknoir defeated a ghost girl who had escaped from the Spirit World, and Xiaoyun explained the incident to Dawn before reporting it to Professor Rowan. On the summer course’s final day, the students began a triathlon, and Ash reached the lake first with Rapidash as the race continued.

• Gengar protected Dawn from the ghost girl’s tentacles, while Sceptile and Dusknoir fought beside Xiaoyun.
• Dusknoir drew the ghost girl through the Spirit World gate and vanished after it closed, and Xiaoyun explained what had happened to Dawn.
• Xiaoyun told Professor Rowan about the escaped ghost, and Professor Rowan said he would arrange another investigation.
• The students began the triathlon by drawing Pokémon for the race, and Jessie drew Hippowdon while Xiaoyun drew Gogoat.
• Jessie took the lead at the start, but Hippowdon charged off with her as Xiaoyun, Dawn, Ash, and the others raced through the forest using Pokémon moves to gain speed.
• Ash overtook Dawn and reached the lake first with Rapidash, where he drew Seaking; Dawn, Xiaoyun, and Barry arrived next and drew more Pokémon.

Xiaoyun and Dawn finished Professor Rowan’s training camp, then traveled to Celestic Town for the Celestic Contest. While Dawn trained under pressure from her mother, Xiaoyun reunited with Cynthia, who asked him about the Lustrous Orb.

• Jessie used Seviper as a slingshot to cross the finish line first, while Xiaoyun and Dawn placed second and Ash’s group placed third; Xiaoyun’s blue team won the overall competition.
• Professor Rowan held a farewell bonfire party, and Xiaoyun and Dawn later traveled to Celestic Town for the contest.
• Johanna called Dawn and urged her to defeat her friend Lila, prompting Dawn to train instead of exploring town with Xiaoyun.
• Xiaoyun met Cynthia outside an ice cream shop, introduced her to Rotom, and began calling her Sister Na.
• Cynthia told Xiaoyun she had come to Celestic Town for work and asked whether he knew about the Lustrous Orb.

Cynthia told Xiaoyun she planned to use the Lustrous Orb exhibition to draw Team Galactic into the open, and he agreed to help. At the Celestic Contest, Dawn earned a perfect score for her Gengar performance and advanced to the final against veteran Coordinator Lila, who greeted her as someone she had known since Dawn was little.

• Cynthia explained that the Pokémon League would use the Lustrous Orb exhibition in Celestic Town to try to expose Team Galactic, and Xiaoyun offered to help.
• Lila opened the Celestic Contest with a Cherrim performance that earned a score of 29.8.
• Dawn performed with Gengar, combining Will-O-Wisp, Confuse Ray, and Night Shade into a dramatic display that earned a perfect score of 30.
• Dawn and Lila advanced through the preliminary round and their matchups to meet in the final.
• Cynthia praised Dawn's contest talent, while Xiaoyun enthusiastically defended her from fans who wanted her as a girlfriend.
• Lila warmly greeted Dawn onstage, and Dawn awkwardly addressed her as Auntie Lila.

Dawn defeated Lila in a contest battle after Lopunny turned Delcatty’s Ice Beam into an Ice Punch and won their final clash. Lila praised Dawn and encouraged her to carry on the hopes of former coordinators, while Johanna bristled at being brought into the conversation.

• Lila and Dawn exchanged greetings before beginning their contest battle, with Lila sending out Delcatty and Dawn choosing Lopunny.
• Lila used Delcatty’s Fake Out, Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, and Thunder to put Dawn and Lopunny under pressure.
• Dawn used Substitute to avoid Thunder, then had Lopunny turn Delcatty’s Ice Beam into an Ice Punch that knocked Delcatty down.
• With thirty seconds left, Lopunny’s High Jump Kick overcame Delcatty’s Double-Edge and defeated it, giving Dawn the win.
• Lila praised Dawn and encouraged her to keep pursuing Pokémon Contests, while Johanna objected to being compared with them.