Watermint shortage

A watermint shortage occurred in River of Fire when cats began to fall ill from a bellyache sickness. The supply shared by WindClan and ThunderClan was used up, prompting cats from both Clans to seek out an alternate supply on RiverClan's border, which was closed. Mistystar agreed to let them go in peace, but continued to insist on keeping the borders closed, despite the wishes of her medicine cats.

RiverClan suffered when their leader insisted Willowshine could not search for watermint outside their territory, even when several of their cats are close to dying. More cats fall ill in RiverClan, and Willowshine made plans to disobey her leader and collect watermint elsewhere against orders. Before she could act, a fire devastates RiverClan's camp, prompting them to reopen their borders and rejoin the Clans.

Premise

 * For a quarter moon, more and more cats have contracted a bellyache sickness in ThunderClan. Alderheart searches for more watermint to cure it, largely to no avail. Their supplies are running low, and there is little to none left in their stream by WindClan's border able to replenish their stocks. This leads to heightened tensions within the medicine cat den as they try to keep the Clan healthy. WindClan has had several cats fall ill as well, leaving a large shortage of the herb needed to cure the sickness. Meanwhile, RiverClan harbors the only remaining viable source of watermint left, but their borders are closed, so neither WindClan or ThunderClan has traveled there to collect any.

Overview

 * Cats in several Clans have become ill from a bellyache sickness, which is cured with watermint. A shortage of the herb develops as medicine cats including Alderheart, Kestrelflight, and Willowshine continue to stretch their remaining supplies to help their Clanmates. Alderheart decides to go to RiverClan for watermint, and is joined by a WindClan patrol. While Mistystar agrees to let them gather some, but sends them away with a stern warning that RiverClan's borders are closed. Cats continue to fall ill, but with the herbs, the medicine cats are able to combat it and nurse their Clanmates back to health. Briarlight passes away from the illness, due to being too weak to fight it.