New Medicine Cat

[Dreamheart]

((NOTE: If anycat is injured, please either go to the 'medicine cat den' or put injured in the title. Also, put a description of the injury, the cause and what you woluld like Dreamheart to do i.e. thorn in paw, stepped in thornbush, heals nicely with no infection))

Dreamheart stepped inside her den and stared at it. She still hadn't gotten used to the fact that it was now her den. Her mentor was still gone...
The tortoiseshell medicine cat crouched by a pool of water that lay by the entrance. She lapped it a few times, then got up and padded to the pile of herbs she still hadn't gotten around to sorting. Neat stacks of dust-ridden greens lay in the back. She sniffed the first and coughed: too much dust! But under the dust, she scented dandelion roots. The pile next to it sported dandelion leaves. Chewed-up and dried dandelion flower petals were scattered over it. That's right, she thought. Dandelion petals, once chewed and dried, are good for storing other herbs!
The slender, graceful she-cat leapt over the large stacks to get back outside. There, she found a mouse probably left for her by an apprentice. She gulped it down and licked her lips. Mouse was good. With a small smile on her muzzle, she turned towards the pile of unsorted herbs and began to tackle the large and ever-growing stack. Cobwebs were put in a small wad. Nocat could ever have too much cobwebs available. Once all the cobwebs were separated, Dreamheart placed them with the diminishing lump of webbing in a corner. Next chervil was removed, then the other herb in the tangle, honeydew. Heather flowers were all that remained. She frowned, then gasped. "Heather flowers are even more deadly than Deathberries!" Instantly she pushed all of the flowers to the rear of the roomy cave and dug a deep hole. After lining it with large, flat rocks, she pushed in the heather petals and hurriedly covered them with mounds and mounds of dirt. The poison would not seep into the water system because of the rocks, and now she knew where to keep all heather flowers that she found. Dry ones that were ground to a fine dust made very good tea, especially when the antidote for the poison was around.
Hmmmm...thought Dreamheart. Very few herbs...

Current Herbs
Cobwebs
Heather flowers
Chervil
Dandelion
Horsetail
Streamweed

[Firerose]

Aspenbrook smiled at the busy new Medicine Cat. "I see you are settling just fine! If you need a cat to help you find more herbs, tell me, and i will send my apprentice, Blizzardpaw."

[moonstar]

Blizardpaw alwked by and overheard his mentor. " No need to sendme, I saw the stack when I was looking for Dreamheart. I went out and got some herbs." Blizardpaw dropped the herbs by the entrance and walked away.

[Firerose]

Aspenbrook smiled after her apprentice, he was going to be a fine warrior.

[moonstar]

Blizardpaw stopped and turned around, now he was angry. "Was that mature enough for you?" He raced to the apprentices den.

[Firerose]

Aspenbrook looked bewilderd. "NOw, Blizzardpw," she began unsteadily.

[moonstar]

Blizardpaw came out of the apprentices den and scowled. " Im not mature enough for you to talk to me!"

[Dreamheart]

Dreamheart smiled. "Thanks, Blizzardpaw," she called after the tom. Then she turned to Aspenbrook. "After I finish sorting these herbs out, do you want to go hunting?" She began to look through the new pile. Chervil, horsetail...ooh! Starfruit! She grinned and began to peel the thick-skinned fruit with her teeth. "Starfruit is quite rare!" she meowed happily, placing the wet skin on a stone to dry in the sun. The fruit itself she squeezed the juice into a "container" to be stored. The seeds she placed in a small pile to be scattered in the forest later. The remainder of the fruit she also laid out to dry.

[Firerose]

Aspenbrook smiled. "I would love to go hunting! and what does Starfruit do?"

[moonstar]

Blizardpaw walked out of the den and to the two she-cats. " I... I think it helps if you have eaten deathberries. I forgot what my sister had taught me..."

[Firerose]

Aspenbrook smiled. "I am thinking you should be a medicen cat apprentice instead!

[moonstar]

" I only know this because of Sparkherb!" Blizardpaw had been thinking about this for a long time. His mother had mated a cat of her own clan and had Sparkherb, then mated a WindClan cat and had him, his father had died. His mother still lived in her clan, and his sister was there. He was going to go to ThunderClan!

[Firerose]

Aspenbrook saw the troubled look on Blizzardpaw's face. "Are you thinking about your mother and sister?"

[moonstar]

Blizardpaw looked around. No one here appretiated him, he had no kin... He had decided. " Im leaving!"

[Dreamheart]

"Starfruit juice is the antidote for Deathberry and Heatherflwer poisoning. The dry skin, when chewed up, is perfect for healing long gashes without making any scars except maybe a slight color difference," Dreamheart mewed. She listened to the other two cats speak for a little bit, then gasped when Blizzardpaw said he was leaving. "But Blizzardpaw, you can't! You're part of the future for WindClan! If you leave, that's one less warrior for us! And what if you're forced to fight in a battle against WindClan?" Her blue eye was somber with shock and pleading, her amber one clouded as usual.