A/N: This is basically like a longer summary or a prologue. I recommend you read it, but you can skip ahead. The story will seem kind of confusing though if you do.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ranger's Apprentice.
Wanderer's Apprentice
Some Explanations
Everything had been peaceful for a few years, but now there was a group that shattered the peace. They called themselves, the Wanderers. The Wanderers were made to destroy and oppose the Rangers. It was starting to annoy and the scare Queen Cassandra and King Horace. They mostly hated the dreaded leader, Falcão, and the best Wanderer, Arrettez. Arrettez's old apprentice was Galo. Galo was actually a pretty good person, but not that it mattered. Nobody was known to outsmart a Ranger, but the Wanderers were. Nothing was safe anymore. Everybody lived in constant fear. Almost nobody survived to tell the tale of the Wanderers.
This is the story of those Wanderers and their most well know clash with the Rangers.
Wanderers apprentices don't get chosen like Ranger apprentices. Wanderers look specially for kids that might have potential, so they kidnap kids at a young age that they won't know of their parents. The kids are then taught how evil Ranger's are, and ways to defend against them. Some of them are saved and adopted as Ranger's apprentices, but most live as a Wanderer.
There is a story about one very special Wanderer named Vontade. Which means Will in Gallic. interestingly he was named after the famous Ranger Will Treaty. Wanderers names sometimes correspond to a Ranger's name. Vontade's mentor's name is Arrettez. Surprisingly they always chose people who have the same personality as a Ranger that is on the corps still. This means that the Wanderers had an equal chance of being a Ranger but were just found by the Wanderers first.
It was suprising how similar a Wanderer was to a Ranger. The main difference was that a Wanderer wore a bronze, silver, or gold maple leaf around their neck and were brought up differently. The problem was they always hid the leaf under their green and gray cloaks and would never let on their true identities. Whenever someone found out who they were it was already to late. On very rare occasions, once recorded, but that's a different story, a Ranger would die mysteriously and the Wanderers were the killers. More often though a Wanderer will die at a Ranger's hand. The question was why? Why did the Wanderer's hold back from full on attacking the Rangers?