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Gracepaw noticed that Stripepaw was jerking in her sleep. “Stripepaw? Are you okay?” She placed a paw on Stripepaw’s flank. “Yowch!” She hissed. “Rainingbreeze, Stripepaw is burning up!” 
 
Stripepaw was moved to the medicine cat den. Gracepaw chewed up feverfew into a pulp, and then mixed it with heather nectar, so it was easier to swallow. She crouched, and gently massaged the apprentice’s throat, trying to get Stripepaw to swallow it.
“What else should we do?” She sat up. Rainingbreeze shook her head.
“I don’t know what else we should do. I’ve never seen this sickness.” Gracepaw’s jaw dropped. “But.. But medicine cats know everything, with the guide of StarClan.”
“I’m afraid not even StarClan can help Stripepaw now.”
“Then I’ll help her.” Gracepaw declared.
Rainingbreeze stared at her. “You’re kidding.”
“No I’m not. I’m not about to let a clanmate die.” She retorted.
Rainingbreeze blinked gently. “There’s nothing we can do.”
“I will save her.” She growled stubbornly.
“Alright, alright, you can try.” Rainingbreeze looked on as Gracepaw picked out herbs from the store.
“Feverfew, borage, lavender, sweet-sedge, marigold, nettle, tansy…..” She muttered, trying to pick out the best ones. She mixed up marigold, sweet-sedge, and feverfew into a herb mix, before feeding it to Stripepaw. About an hour later, she made another herb mix, this time out of nettle, tansy, and marigold. Another hour later, she did lavender, borage, and marigold. She repeated the three treatments over, and over, and over.
“Hang in there, Stripepaw.” Gracepaw murmured in Stripepaw’s ear. She kept vigil over Stripepaw the whole night. 
 
The next day, Gracepaw was so tired. Rainingbreeze noticed, and told her, “Rest, Gracepaw. You need to keep your strength up; You don’t want to get sick yourself.” 
So, she obediently laid down in her nest, and drifted off to sleep.
It had only seemed like a couple minutes when a paw poked her. “Wake up.” She opened her eyes just slightly, and saw Rainingbreeze. She grunted and heaved herself up onto her paws. She was about to make another herb mix when a paw stopped her. “Go outside. Take a walk.” Rainingbreeze meowed gently. She reluctantly stumbled outside, before going out to the forest. She padded around, when she found a patch of flowers she had never seen before, with bright orange and blue petals, with light green stems. For some reason, she felt compelled to pick the flowers. She rolled them up into a bundle. Her paws suddenly felt light. 
“I’m back.” Gracepaw made her way into the medicine cat den. But Rainingbreeze was sleeping. She carefully picked up a flower, and as if she knew what to do all along, she started to pick the petals and grind them up naturally. She fed it to Stripepaw. 
Rainingbreeze woke up. “How’s Stripepaw?” Her mentor yawned. “I found this herb in the forest, and when I grinded the petals, and fed it to Stripepaw, it had a good effect.” She reported. “I believe StarClan led me to it.” Rainingbreeze looked curious. “What is this unknown herb?” She asked. Gracepaw picked one up and placed it in front of her mentor. “Wow. So it’s this herb.” Rainingbreeze observed the flower. “And the petals are useful, right?” She nodded. “Alright, let’s try it.” 
Once each day, the two medicine cats gave Stripepaw the flower. The apprentice gradually got better, until she could walk. She lost an eye though, to the sickness.
“Alright, I think Stripepaw is well enough. She’s a strong apprentice, she’ll be fine, even with one eye. Let me report to Coldstar, so that she won’t worsen Stripepaw, when she is almost completely better.” Rainingbreeze announced.
 
At the next half-moon meeting, the medicine cats chattered with each other. “Stripepaw, one of our apprentices, had a mysterious sickness.” Rainingbreeze told SmokeClan’s medicine cat, Ashstripe. “But Gracepaw healed her with this new herb she found. What did you call the herb and the sickness again?” Rainingbreeze turned to her. “Um, I called the sickness the Burning Sickness, and the herb the Sunset Petal.” “What’s all this I hear about a new sickness and a new herb?” Firefeather, FlameClan’s medicine cat, padded over. “Oh, let me tell you……”