Holes Seeping Magic

Crossover between Holly Black stories and Holes. Yes. I know. It's kind of weird.

Disclaimer> I don't own any characters in this except for Ravin. All others belong to their respected writers.

"Why are we being sent to this shit hole?" An Asian girl with naturally blonde hair asked.

"Because, Kaye," a girl with pewter colored hair responded, "each court has been asked to sent a representative."

"Seelie, Unseelie, and Solitary. . . but why do they want me there?" A third voice chimed in. He hair was black, and very short. She was recovering from a shaved head. "There will be plenty of humans at this camp. . ."

"It's because you will be the only human there that knows about us. And you were the only person Ravus would lend his glass sword to," the fourth and final girl on the bus stated. She also had black hair, but hers fell just above her shoulders.

"Oh. . . right. . . well, okay. So, what are we supposed to be here for? You know this is like. . . a prison camp! We have to have done something to get here," the short haired girl asked.

"Well, Val, I'm pretty sure Roiben said your cover was a druggie. I'm here for theft. . . but I dunno about these two. . . " Kaye said and put her hands behind her head.

"I'm here for breaking and entering!" The pewtered hair Ethine said. "Oh, and while we're here, you have to call me Athene instead. It doesn't sound as different as Ethine, you understand. . . well, Ravin, what about you? What have they said you've done to get here?"

"Arson," she said nothing else. Kaye and Athene had met briefly, since Kaye had sort of been dating Athene's brother, Roiben. Val knew of Roiben, they had only met once, but not of Kaye or Athene. None knew Ravin, and she did not know any of them. She liked it that way though.

Before they knew it, the bus was screeching to a halt. "All of you—off." The four girls stood and walked the isle of the bus to get out. Val coughed from the dust kicking up around them. Athene smiled.

"At least there isn't very much iron out here!" Kaye and Ravin nodded in agreement. Soon, a very odd looking man walked out, smoking a cigarette.

"So you must be the bad girlies," he said and took a drag from his cirgarette. It was the other three girls' turn to cough, but now because of the smoke. "I'm Mr. Sir, and you will call me by my name at all times. Now, you may be girls, but this is no girl scout camp!"

"Are we sure he isn't a troll?" Kaye whispered to Athena. They giggled.

"Something funny!" Mr. Sir demanded. The girls all shrugged and shook their heads. "Good." Mr. Sir started walking and the four followed after him. "You get two sets of clothes, one for work, and the other for leisure. Because you are girls, the warden has decided you are all allowed to do your own laundry, whenever you feel necessary. Every day, you have to dig a hole, five feet deep and five feet in diameter. Got that?"

"Yes, Mr. Sir," the girls said in unison.

"Right, over to you Pendanski," another man walked in. He was very short, with an weird hat on, along with lots of sunscreen on his nose.

"Oh look, we have an elf," Ravin muttered to Kaye. Once again the girls started giggling.

"Welcome girls, to our wonderful camp. If you would follow me, I'll show you to your bunks." The four followed the elf like consoler past a number of tents before reaching their own. "You have your own tent, E-tent. It stands for Excellence. And I expect nothing less from a bright group of young ladies!" He eventually left the four to their cots. They had to fight over bedding now.

"I get the one in the corner," Ravin said immediately and walked to the one in the back of the tent. The others shrugged. Because Val was the last in the chain of command, she had the last in choosing. There were still empty beds, even afterwards, because they only slept in four of the seven.

"So, do we get started tonight?" Kaye asked the others. They had certain things they needed to do while they were there.

"I say wait," Ravin stated and crossed her arms, "I can't scope out the dried lake bed until after I've had a feel for the surroundings. Tomorrow, we go out to dig, I should be able to get used to the magic around by then. Until then, I can't do my part."

"Then I think I agree," Athene nodded, "we have all of the time we need here, so lets not rush things. There is a greater chance of things going wrong if we rush."

"The thing is, they need us to remove the magic before the equinox," Val shrugged, "that means we DON'T have that much time. Like. . . three and a half months at most. And none of us has ever done this before. We don't know exactly how long the process will take."

"She does have a point," Kaye said. The three groaned. They were getting nowhere.

"I don't care. I can't do my best until I have a feel. So, I'm going to go explore our little campsite. You can argue amongst yourselves, but it won't make any difference," Ravin had already changed into her jumpsuit. Sort of. It was actually underneath her pillow. She had shorts and a beater on, with the orange suit glamoured. No one in this camp would be able to tell, at least.

When Ravin walked out, she walked right into someone else. A very tall someone else. "There really are girls at camp! Why are you here? It's a government conspiracy! They want to infect us with some experimental virus! Get away! COOTIES!" Before the dark, dichromatic girl could do anything, the crazy haired boy ran away from her. Probably to tell his buddies about his revelation. Ravin shook her head and kept on walking. More and more of the juvenile convicts started coming out to see if the rumors of female inhabitants were true.

t.b.p.> sooo was it alright? Did it capture your interest? My recent obsession with Max Kasch inspired me to write a fanfic... the original one was trashed, and this one was started. Hope you enjoyed it... please... tel me what you thought of it, and if you have any suggestions!