Disclaimer: Ace is not mine, but Eowynn is, and I DID NOT STEAL HER FROM LORD OF THE RINGS, no matter what Chloe tells you!
Ace's eyes fluttered. She heard voices. Human voices, speaking another language. It wasn't German, and for some reason she knew that it should've been German. She couldn't remember where she was supposed to be. Then it clicked. 1914 AD. The start of World War I. She checked her watch. It wasn't really a watch; it just looked like one. In truth, it was a time measurer. She held down the knob on the side. She read the reading.
Date: Unknown
Location: Wiltshire, Southern England, Great Britain, Earth
Local Language: Old Earth Welsh
Ace stared at the reading with frustration and fear. That had never happened before. She had never gone so far back or so far forward in this time zone that there had been no reading. Her time hopper couldn't travel before or after 'AD.' She pressed the knob again. Once again, flashed the word Unknown.
"What's wrong with this thing!" she slapped the watch. Suddenly the reading under Date changed from Unknown to 3100 BC. Ace grinned.
"Wicked! Ouch!" she clapped her hands to her forehead. Bandages were wrapped carelessly around her head, but something warm and sluggish was seeping from underneath them. Blood. She sat up quickly to see where she was, but someone pushed her head back down onto the pillow. She let her pupils dilate in the darkness. A girl of about sixteen was standing beside her. She was speaking very fast in Welsh. Ace held a hand up before the girl, palm facing out. The girls' eyes widened. Her speech became slower and scared sounding.
"Shush! Wait a sec, I need to do something!" she knew the girl wouldn't understand her, but she stopped talking immediately. Once again, she looked at her watch and tapped the words on the touch-screen marked TRANSLATE. A rush of words appeared.
Are you fine? You fall from sky! Colours, many colours. Stone horse crash beside. Round head hit. Blood! Blood! Much blood come. You hurt, we find. We take to tent. In tent, you sleep. Soon we take to stones. Magic, healing stones. Stones being made. Come from Otherworld!
"Bloody literal translation!" Ace muttered. More words appeared and Ace assumed that the girl must have said them after Ace had put her hand up.
You! Otherworld you come. Mama tell stories. You are from the Otherworld. You watch over Time!
Ace's eyes widened. No one knew her! Let alone a sixteen year old girl from Wales in 3100 BC! She had to speak to the girl. On her watch's tough screen she pressed AUTOMATIC TRANSLATE. Now, whatever she said, the girl would hear as Welsh and whatever the girl said, Ace would hear in English. It was a bit of technology the Doctor had given her from the TARDIS. She checked it again to make sure it was working.
"What's your name?" Ace asked the girl. The girl looked cautious.
"Eowynn. You speak normal now?" Ace nodded.
Eowynn began pacing. "You cannot be here! As soon as they know you come from the Otherworld, they will capture you!" Ace frowned.
"Who are 'they'?"
"My family," Eowynn replied. "The Stone Bringers. We bring the Stones to Willtshire to heal people and animals. So many are sick or injured. There was a great battle. England fighting Wales. The English won against us. Bringing the Stones is dangerous. We are entering England without a permit. We may be attacked."
Ace grinned inside. Finally! She thought. Something for me to do!
"I could protect you!" Ace piped up.
Eowynn laughed. "My father is far bigger and stronger than you! I think he can look after himself!"
But Ace wasn't going to give up easily. "Let me fight him! Tomorrow morning, I'll fight him. If he wins, I'll leave you; but if I win, I'll protect you!"
Eowynn was still giggling, but agreed, and went to tell her father in the next tent. When she came back in, she looked at Ace gravely, and nodded.
The fight was on.