Please don't maul me! I only mention most of the kid's parents within Hellsing and neglect their others...sorry, I'm working on it...I fixed the guns hopefully...otherwise I hope it's ok...XP
Marisot Beccalyn Wingates Hellsing stood just inside the huge double doors leading outside the mansion. A standard pistol rested lightly in her hand, appearing insanely small next to the giant Harkonnen hand cannon resting on Seras Victoria's shoulder beside her.
"Why are we waiting for them to come to us?" Diana Alexandria Anderson asked impatiently from Marisot's other side. Having grown up on the Hellsing house, she hadn't inherited her father's thick Irish accent, which came as a relief to the others. "We should be out there now!"
Marisot opened her mouth to answer but hurried footsteps cut her off. She spun around to see her half-sister, Carrigan Tepes, and Anessa K. Dornez rushing down the corridor toward them.
Both were already armed with their weapons of choice: Carrigan with an exact replica of Alucard's Jackal and Annie with her father's wire-imbedded gloves from when he was her age.
"What took you so long?" Marisot hissed as Carrigan snapped to beside Seras and Annie on her sister's other side.
Carrigan's crimson eyes flashed as she dropped her gaze. "I apologize, Master. Alucard held us in the weapons locker until now."
Shaking her head with a sigh, Marisot wondered why Carrigan refused to call Alucard "father."
"Now that we're all here," Diana grumbled, mindlessly twirling the blessed blades between her fingers. "Why don't we go destroy those monsters?"
"We have to wait for Mother's signal," Marisot muttered, lifting her own gun again.
"You took far too long," a familiar deep voice called from behind them.
"It was your fault," Carrigan growled, continuing to face the door.
Marisot spun around to glare at the tall man in red standing behind the line. A huge red fedora perched on his head though he lacked his usual sunglasses. As she watched, a smirk broke his lips.
"Aren't you supposed to be guarding the west doors?" Marisot growled, waving her gun vaguely around her head.
"You didn't know?" Seras asked in genuine surprise, flicking her scarlet eyes towards Marisot.
"Know what?" She snapped, glancing angrily between the three vampires.
"And not only were you slow," Alucard continued as if he hadn't been interrupted, "This formation would only make it easier to kill you all in one blow. Stagger. Two lines."
"A…drill?" Diana growled, whipping around to glare at Alucard.
"This was all a damn drill?" Marisot shouted, throwing her gun down. When it didn't do anything as it hit the floor, she knew indeed it was a drill. No one had loaded the thing.
Alucard smirked.
"How better to train than to believe this the real thing?" Walter asked, stepping from the shadows. The light glinted strangely off his monocle.
Anessa flicked her wrist, snapping five thin wires against the stone floor. "I told you we should have gone all out."
"There were no ghouls to fight," Carrigan muttered with a half-hearted shrug.
Diana stalked off in a huff, grumbling to herself.
"Why do we need to drill protecting headquarters instead of fighting in the field? We're old enough! Experienced enough!" Marisot kicked her gun, sending it skittering across the floor toward her father.
Alucard was silent, staring at the gun sliding to a halt at his feet.
"It's not a matter of how ready for battle you are," Walter muttered, coming to the vampire's rescue. "It depends entirely on whether Sir Hellsing will allow you on a mission."
"My mother you mean," she snapped, running her fingers through her hair and turning to face Carrigan, Anessa and Seras who were still standing in a line behind her. "What are you still doing here?"
"We haven't been dismissed," Carrigan muttered, tucking her Jackal into her coat. "Technically, the drill is still in progress."
Grunting in frustration, Marisot clenched her fists at her sides and watched angrily as Anessa pulled off her gloves and stuffed them in a pocket.
"Will you keep them standing here all night?" Alucard asked, smirking again.
She glared at him again before dismissing her friends.
"I hate you," she muttered as she stalked past the vampire on her way to her room.