"So she's Doflamingo's?" Dellinger asked as he looked over at Avara.

Dellinger had seen Doflamingo with many women before but he'd never seemed as possessive with them. Since she'd arrived he hadn't allowed her to leave his side, and even now while they sat out by the pool he had wrapped one of his arms tightly around her waist.

"Mhm" Sugar sad as she popped a grape into her mouth, "Glad she's back"

Jora grunted, "The young master still let her off too easy"

"You're just mad because she was rude to you the other day" Dellinger said with a giggle

"She's always been rude!" Jora said, "The young master shouldn't associate himself with a woman like that"

"Would you rather him associate himself with one of the many women who fall at his feet?" Baby5 asked.

"Why did you even keep this, it's not like anybody here can swim" Avara said as she looked over at the pool

"Fufu..Not all of us have devil fruit abilities" Doflamingo said as he looked at the water, "Dellinger, Lao G, Gladius, and Vergo when he's around"

"I can't imagine Vergo in a pool, let alone relaxing" Avara muttered as she recalled the times Vergo had nearly beaten her to death for 'disrespecting Doffy'.

"So the rest of them just wear swimsuits because they miss the feel?" Avara questioned

Doflamingo chuckled, "We are able to go in the water, we can't swim and our energy get's drained but we can at least walk through the water"

"What's the point then?" Avara asked, "It's not nice if you can't move and your practically getting the life drained out of you"

"Fufufu~ You're being bitter today"

"I'd rather people have respect!" Jora shouted from the other side of the pool.

"What are they going on about?" Avara questioned

"They're lively" Doflamingo said as he looked over to them, "Must be something interesting"

"I thought you couldn't turn this many people in to toys?" Avara questioned

"I couldn't before, even I get stronger though" Sugar said as she took a bite of her food, "I thought you couldn't use haki"

"Suppose I got somewhat stronger while I've been gone" Avara mumbled as she shoved a piece of steak into her mouth

"You attacked Doffy and didn't die" Dellinger said, "You can't be that week ahaha"

"The young master was going easy on her" Jora said as she shot a look Avara's way, "If not he would have beaten her"

Avara scoffed, "If I didn't have those sea stone cuffs on he would have lost"

"Lost?" Doflamingo said before he let out a chuckle, "What makes you so sure of that?"

Avara shrugged, "I know most of your abilities"

"Gehehe, a fight between the two of you would be fun to see" Trebol said

"It would put her back in her place" Lao G said, "Apparently she's gotten cocky too since she's been gone"

Avara sighed, "Doflamingo is a shichibukai, a lot of his activities appear in the news paper" Avara stated, "Then there's the pirates who manage to escape fights with him by falling into the ocean. They've seen your abilities and they remember them quite well. Not to forget marines talk quite a lot when they're drunk"

Doflamingo frowned and raised an eyebrow. He briefly wondered how much of his abilities were known by people who actually searched for information on it. Then again aside from Avara there could possibly only be one more person who'd want to keep up on what he could do and for the time being they were no threat.

"Why don't you two fight?" Sugar asked

"Fufufu~ I wouldn't want to hurt my little ghost" Doflamingo said as he glanced down at Avara, who seemed slightly annoyed

"But it's not a bad idea" Gladius said, "After all as it is now we don't know how strong Avara actually is, if she's weak we might have to have somebody assigned to watch her when you're not"

Doflamingo looked from Gladius back to Avara, who was looking back at him with a smirk on her face.

"If you're that scared of losing in front of your kingdom we can just invite the higher ups to watch"

"Fufufu~ If you're that eager to fight again we'll have a little battle then" Doflamingo said, "But the citizens won't be seeing it. It'd be unsightly for them to see their king fighting one of his family members"

"Fine by me" Avara said

"The coliseum is being used for a fight tomorrow, so unless you want to wait a day or cancel that you won't be able to use it" Baby5 said

"Canceling it will get a rise out of the citizens though" Lao G said, "Best not to do that"

"Fufufu, we'll fight out in that field" Doflamingo said as he took a bite out of his food.

...

Sorry guys it's not as long as I anticipated it would be but I'm tryign to rebuild the story up for a bit. Also I have to get back into the whole writing routine.

Anyways thank you to everybody whose commenting, it makes me really happy when I see the comments kuz it's like, oh yay I did good and even the ones that like point out flaws and stuff it helps me get better so thanks guys.