A demon pirate!?

Let the games start!

On your marks!
A three lap race!
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The island's town gathered around the outside of their small town for the games to begin, Azrael and Luffy were outside behind a dirt line waiting for someone to start the race. Azrael started to stretch while Luffy stood there staring at the road ahead, that's when Marta walked up to them from the crowd, holding a small bag.

"Alright you two, you both will have to run three laps around the town" She started, "To keep track, when you get to the entrance on the town I'll give you one of these flags" Marta held up one of the flags that she took out from her bag. "First one back with three will be the winner of this first game."

Azrael and Luffy nodded and got into their stances, while Marta held out her hand above her head.

"Ready!"

Azrael dug his feet into the floor, while Coal whispered from the gem. "Remember to hold your breath."

"Set!"

Luffy smirked while looking at Azrael before putting his attention back to the entrance of the town ahead of them.

"And don't breath out." Coal finished.

"Go!"

Marta quickly pulled her hand down, signaling that the race had started. Azrael quickly took off leaving a dust cloud behind him, Luffy stood there in shock before he smiled and ran after the masked teen.

Azrael let out the air he held in and slightly slowed his pace, thanks to being a part demon he was given superhuman abilities he's able to run faster than someone with abnormal speed. And by holding his breath he can expand his lungs enough to give a boost to his run, though unlike others he didn't have any big powerful abilities like a duo with psychic powers.

"I'm so glad we can do a super boost." Azrael talked out loud to Coal.

"Yeah but it could use some work, we can be faster. Hopefully it's enough to get us through these laps."

"Whatever, we can talk about improvements later!" Azrael shouted before picking up his speed.

Soon Azrael got his first lap in, and with no sight of Luffy anywhere he was pretty confident. He was handed one of the  flags and he left back to the trail to run his last two laps, however he and his demon decided to take it a bit slower since they might need energy for the last lap.

'This isn't half as bad as what we did back home...' Azrael thought.

"Yeah, at least this one doesn't have any spiked pit traps." Coal said thinking about their time during their training classes.

Both of them were taught to never slow down in case you couldn't stand against an opponent and you needed to get away. Though running away is looked down on since their teachers always said kill the stronger opponents instead of run away, if you did it was climbing up a wall with spears for ya, and a low grade.

Azrael cringed at the thought and nodded, they both continued to run, making sharp turns, both of them thought they would pass Luffy by now, but that wasn't the case. Currently Luffy was just now finishing his first lap, he ran towards Marta who had given him one of the flags and ran back to catch up with Azrael.