The Mistress of Heaven.


Ishtar's demonic army launched themselves at full force towards the Diet Building, being intercepted by the Council's own forces as the goddess looked from above at the fight with an unremovable smile from her face. A red aura around her made Marth feel unsafe.

"I swear I'm going to rip her head off her neck as soon as I get the chance" - Flora said as she cracked her fists - "Marth, you coming?" -

"Wait, I think she's planning something" -

"What are you… Oh, yeah I can see what you mean" -

"What? What's going on?" - Ritsuka asked.

"Ishtar's levels of Magatsuchi are off the charts, even for a god that's an insane quantity" -

"And they're rising by the second. Unless we drive her off before she has enough Magatsuchi gathered, she's going to blow this whole place up" -

"Yes. So, Flora, remember your earlier question? Let's go, even with her powers it's a 2 vs 1, and we've faced a lot worse" -

"I was expecting you to say that. Hey, Fuji kid, we'll be busy handling dear old Ishtar, you and your Servants stay down here and stop her demon army, but don't engage her directly" - and with that, Flora and Marth took off to the sky, piercing through Ishtar's army and reaching her.

"Well well well, if it isn't one of the Leaders of the…" - Ishtar didn't have time to finish speaking, as Marth hit her with a giant fire blast that sent the goddess back a few meters, but due to all her Magatsuchi, she was mostly unharmed.

"The other gods didn't teach you that you shouldn't get distracted during battle?" - Flora said as she used her incredible speed to close the gap instantly and deliver a barrage of punches and kicks. As much as she wanted, she couldn't use her Electric magic against Ishtar, since the Goddess would nullify them upon impact.

During the barrage, Ishtar managed to grab both of Flora's hands on her own - "Aren't you a cute one, little Half Demon?" -

But she wasn't scared. In fact, she welcomed such a thing, since from behind her, her brother was preparing an attack to hit the distracted Ishtar.

Disappearing from the hands of the Goddess in a flash of light, Marth was revealed from behind her, charging a small fireball in his hand that was later thrown against Ishtar. The initial impact did nothing, but the subsequent explosion of Fire and Dark magic combined sure did.

"Flora, remember we're Demons. You have access to Dark magic too" - Marth said as the girl floated next to him.

"I know, but I don't have practice on it, I've never used it that much before" -

"Neither have I and I just…" -

He was cut off by two bolts of lightning coming straight from the skies, directed at him and Flora. He barely managed to avoid it, but she didn't have to, thanks to her immunity to Electric.

"You two seem fun to play with…" - as the cloud of smoke dissipated, there Ishtar stood, with just a few burn marks after Marth's attack.

"Dammit, even striking her weaknesses doesn't matter because of all her Magatsuchi" - he said as he charged up another attack.

"It's best if you surrender now, if you do I'll spare your pitiful lives and those of your underlings. I might even allow you both to serve as my personal consorts" -

"Thanks but we'll pass. You should know by now Ishtar, those who trespass on grounds of the Council of Lucifer don't make it out alive" - Flora said as black lighting started to surround her, a signal of the girl mixing her Dark and Electric magic - "You won't be the exception" -

The pair didn't give Ishtar a chance to say another word and immediately attacked with their Fire and Electric magic combined with the Dark magic of demons and Half Demons. The Queen of Heaven dodged both with ease before appearing behind them, unleashing a devastating wave of light, the weakness of Half Demons.

Both of them took heavy damage, which Ishtar used to fire a powerful discharge from her hand towards Marth, but Flora got in the middle of the hit to block it before launching hundreds of small Dark magic projectiles against her, surrounding the Goddess in them.

She didn't take kindly to this, and in a second, destroyed the spheres with her light and launched a concentrated beam of Light magic towards Flora, but being distracted like that gave Marth the chance to get himself back up and blast Ishtar with a Dark magic explosion right on her face.

The skies above them darkened and black lightning started to generate inside the clouds, Flora's doing.

"Enjoy my little gift for you Ishtar, Storm of Punishment" -

Moving her hand to the skies, every single bolt of dark lightning came down over it, overcharging her and launching it as a heavy attack to strike the Goddess' weakness, but she answered with her own move.

"Witless one… Dreadful Gleam" -

A Light and Electric magic attack, a powerful combination made possible due all the Magatsuchi that she had garnered. Flora could barely hold herself together as she was forced to use more and more energy solely to keep up with the Goddess' attack.

Marth appeared right next to her and started to charge his own attack to help her. His eyes turned red and he created a small fireball in his right hand… No, not a fireball, a small dark sun.

"We're not letting you off Ishtar. Collapsing Star" -

As he threw it at the Goddess, it expanded until it became large enough to help Flora push back the Dreadful Gleam, but Ishtar still wasn't going down. All that the Collapsing Star did was to delay the attack hitting the two, and they both knew it.

"Hey, false me!" - a voice screamed from behind Ishtar - "For being supposedly me, you're not even close to being as beautiful as myself" -

Chaldea's Ishtar was here, and she wasn't pleased with the presence of this Ishtar. As an answer to her, she fired bolts of magical energy against her, which distracted her by even a few moments, allowing Flora and Marth to push her back with their Storm of Punishment and Collapsing Star.

Yet, Ishtar wasn't giving up her attack, and as such, Chaldea's Ishtar was ready to unleash her most devastating move. Before coming here, she was charged by one of Ritsuka's Command Seals. Not only that, but the world around them made her feel different. It made her feel… Stronger.

"Fly, Maanna! Gate Open!"

From above Chaldea's Ishtar, a huge portal opened to space, the sea of stars. More specifically, to Venus.

"For a fake such as yourself, I'll hold nothing back! Behold my full strength!" -

The concept of the Planet Venus, used as a powerful projectile. In Maanna's chamber, a bright and giant arrow made from the concept of Venus was ready to be fired.

"Annihilate them! An Gal Ta Ki Gal Šè!" -

After Chaldea's Ishtar fired the attack, it hit Ishtar directly, making her lose her focus and allowing Marth and Flora to finally overpower her Dreadful Gleam with their own attacks. All 3 collided with the Goddess at the same time before creating a huge explosion that illuminated the sky with the brightness of a thousand suns.

"Did the Fuji kid ask you to come here and help us?" - Flora asked as Ishtar floated to their side.

"Yeah, Master's orders, but I also wanted to get revenge on her. I mean, how does she dare ruin my perfect image by being so… Her!?" - Ishtar said with an angry look on her face.

"How are those two the same person…" - Marth asked, dumbfounded.

"I'm asking the same question" - Flora answered, exactly like her brother.

"That was a… Rather interesting attack" -

"Oh my fucking… How is she still alive?" - Flora said as all three turned to look at where the 3 attacks collided. There, Ishtar stood, but the siblings could tell something was different from her.

"Her extra Magatsuchi reserves… They're gone now" - Marth said, with his sister soon realizing the same.

"She must've used it all to block the 3 attacks combined. It means she can't use her extra energy anymore. It means…" -

"It means we have a chance to kill her" -

The red aura that Ishtar had before was gone now, but she still had her own massive energy output. She wasn't a Goddess for nothing after all.

"You, that attack that you used, An Gal Ta Ki Gal Šè" - she said while pointing her finger at Chaldea's Ishtar - "So we are the same individual. Strange" -

"We could never be the same, I'm far more gracious and stylish than you" -

"You would never be, but I will say, there's one specific difference between us" -

The 3 started to feel how… Something was approaching Earth at a high speed, in a crashing course.

"Our power. Behold, my An Gal Ta Ki Gal Šè!" -

The planet of Venus was rapidly approaching Earth, with no signs of stopping.

The battle with Ishtar was far from over.