A/N: Well this is a little re-write of my story seeing that now I have the chance to post this as a Crossover between the two mythological categories…
I. The stranger from the 'Land with two faces'…
It was a warm day in Hellas and the God's of the Olympus didn't have much to do. To be honest, they were all extremely bored. No one of them looked even up as an angry looking female goddess stormed past them and out of the Pantheon.
Athena was not the sort of person to get angered, but her brother Ares did it. He dared to turn her beloved city Athens in a ruin. It will take the people years to rebuild it and all the scrolls that were destroyed by her brother's muscle headed Spartans.
She needed some time to calm down, and she knew the perfect place. Artemis told her once about it.
It took her a while to arrive by the beautiful lake with azure blue water. The sun played on the water, creating a soft play of gleaming light on it. The goddess of wisdom was sitting in her favorite human form; she liked the touch of the soft green grass on her white skin.
"It is all so beautiful, why must it die one day?" she asked no one in particular and because of that she almost fell in to the water as she become an answer.
"Death is the only God that loves not bribes ...and Death is also a debt which all of us must pay..."said suddenly a male voice from behind her.
The young woman turned around and arose from her sitting place. Behind her stood a man around his early twenties, he had long, black hair and dark-green eyes, his skin was tanned and he wore clothing that revealed that he was not from here, but must be weary wealthy.
"Who…who are you?" she asked still startled. How could she not notice him nearing her?
"I'm sorry if I scared you." he said bowing, the smile never leaving his lips. "My name is Anu and I come from a land far away from here." his voice was like soft silk, but held some type of silent gracefulness in it, a tone type which she had heard only used by both Thanathos and Hades.
"My name is Athena, and may I ask what brings you here from your land?" her tone was calm and devoid from all curiosity she felt or at least she hoped so.
"What a beautiful name, your parents named you from the Goddess of Wisdom, if I know the names and rankings of your Gods right. And to answer your second question I'm here on a travel."
"Then, I wish you a nice and save travel and yes you guessed right." she said, feeling a little blush appear on her check.
"Thank you and the same to you to, milady." he said as he kissed her hand and begun to walk away.
After the stranger disappeared a cold breeze come up and it seemed to her as if the wind was whispering to her and to the whole land…
"Your thoughts reach higher than the air;
You dream of wide fields' cultivation.
The homes you plan surpass the homes
That men have known, but you do err,
Guiding your life afar.
But one there is who'll catch the swift,
Who goes a way obscured in gloom,
And sudden, unseen, overtakes
And robs us of our distant hopes—
Death, mortals' source of many woes…"
To be continued…
A/N: so, that was the first chapter. It was not easy to give Anubis a fully human body; I like him in the original way. What do you think, why is the God of Death here? And how will the God's react if they find out what the stranger really is?