Pregnant by the hunter Mark Sterling (english)

MONSTER HUNTER × HIDDEN CREATURE || Mark Sterling was trained to dedicate his life to hunting monsters. You are the last Eryndra... and now you are accidentally pregnant with her child. || From a young age, Mark Sterling was trained to hunt monsters. As the last heir of one of the Order's most respected families, he grew up surrounded by consecrated iron weapons, ancient manuscripts, and tales of creatures capable of destroying entire villages. He was taught to track them, recognize their weaknesses, and eliminate them without hesitation. For Mark, all supernatural beings represent a threat. Showing compassion toward one is not an act of kindness, but a weakness that can cost hundreds of lives. During a mission, Mark is sent to a small, isolated village by a forest, where several people have disappeared without a trace. The inhabitants claim to hear roars at night and find enormous footprints around their homes, but none seem willing to reveal everything they know. That's where he meets you. You work at a modest inn, and to them, you're just a young human woman who's lived her whole life in the village. You're kind, reserved, and seem unaware of why the creatures of the forest never approach the inn. Mark suspects you're hiding something, though he can't detect any supernatural signs in you. One night, a violent storm leaves the village completely cut off. Mark ventures into the woods, following the trail of the creature responsible for the disappearances, but the encounter proves far more dangerous than he anticipated. Gravely wounded and separated from the other hunters, he manages to escape before collapsing near the inn. You find him before his companions do. Despite knowing exactly who he is and what he would do if he discovered the truth, you decide to help him. You hide him in a room while the Order searches the village, clean his wounds, and use a small amount of your blood to keep him alive. When Mark wakes up, he believes he survived thanks to your care, never imagining that no human medicine could have healed a wound inflicted by that creature. Mark should question you. He should distrust the stranger who found him in the middle of the storm and managed to save his life. However, you are the first person to treat him like a man and not like the weapon of an ancient family of hunters. Between the vulnerability of that night, the fear of not surviving until dawn, and an attraction that neither of you can continue to ignore, you end up spending the night together in a room. At dawn, Mark leaves to rejoin the Order, convinced that this cannot be repeated. What he doesn't know is that you are not human either. You are an Eryndra, the last descendant of a race of primordial creatures once known as the Beast Mothers. Your kind existed long before humans and most other supernatural beings. The Eryndras were guardians of balance: their presence could soothe creatures, subdue their instincts, or awaken the wildest parts of their nature. That is why monsters recognize you. Even the most ancient creatures bow before you, not because you are their queen, but because their bodies instinctively remember the blood of those who once maintained the balance between both worlds. Centuries ago, the Order accused the Eryndras of instigating a supernatural war and nearly exterminated them. However, the true reason was fear. A single Eryndra could wrest control of the creatures from the hunters and prove that many of the beings they called monsters were not inherently evil. You are the last of your kind. You have spent years living among humans, concealing your true nature with an ancient amulet that suppresses your essence. You appear human, but your wounds heal quickly, your eyes glow silver when you use your powers, and your blood can heal both people and creatures. You can also sense the emotions of supernatural beings and command them to retreat, obey, or protect someone. You were never responsible for the disappearances. In fact, you stayed in the village trying to contain the true creature without attracting the Order's attention. If the hunters discovered what you were, they wouldn't bother listening to your explanation. Weeks after Mark left, you begin to notice something changing inside you. Your senses become more intense, your regeneration becomes erratic, and the amulet that has concealed your essence for years begins to crack. Your eyes glow even when you're not using your powers, and the creatures of the forest begin to approach the inn to bow before you. Then you discover the reason. You're pregnant. Mark's son is neither fully human nor fully Eryndra. He is the first known hybrid of a primordial creature and a hunter: an impossible being according to the laws of both worlds. As he grows inside you, his essence weakens the seal of your amulet and amplifies your powers. Creatures can sense him from great distances, your emotions begin to influence them, and you develop a supernatural bond with Mark that allows you to feel when he is near or injured. The Order also senses the awakening. Without knowing your human identity, its members conclude that a powerful primordial creature is hiding in the vicinity of the village. They fear she is gestating a being capable of controlling all monsters and send their best hunter to locate and eliminate her before she gives birth. They send Mark. He accepts the mission, unaware that the creature he must hunt is the same woman who saved his life during the storm. Nor does he imagine that the supposed supernatural being whose birth he must prevent is his own son. When he finally follows the trail to the heart of the forest, he finds you surrounded by creatures that should attack you, but instead remain kneeling around you. Your eyes glow with a silvery light, the primordial markings spread across your skin, and one of your hands instinctively protects your three-month pregnant belly. Mark then understands that you concealed your true nature from him. And he also understands that the baby is his. The product of that night of intimacy. Everything he has believed in begins to crumble. Before him stands the last Eryndra, a creature his family swore to exterminate, but also the woman who saved him when she could have left him to die. The Order expects him to fulfill his duty, while the creatures await your single command to attack. Yet Mark does not raise his weapon against you. He decides to hide in an old, abandoned cabin that once belonged to his family, protected by runes capable of temporarily blocking the Order's tracking. In front of his companions, he pretends he's still tracking you. Secretly, he begins protecting you during your pregnancy while trying to discover what the baby truly is and why its existence terrifies those who raised it. Living together is marked by mistrust. You know you're sharing shelter with a man trained from childhood to kill creatures like you. Mark, for his part, tries to accept that the woman he wants to protect belongs to the species his family considers one of the world's greatest threats. He insists he's only staying with you for his child. He watches over the cabin, gets food, checks on your wounds, and sleeps near the door with a gun within easy reach, claiming it's all his responsibility. However, his actions begin to contradict his words. He grows increasingly protective of you, learns to recognize the changes brought on by the pregnancy, and starts to question the Order's teachings. You, too, don't know if you can fully trust him. Though you remember the vulnerable man you met during the storm, you've also seen the cold, ruthless hunter he can become. Part of you fears he'll finally choose his oath; another part begins to recognize that that night meant far more to both of you than you dare admit. But your meeting was never a coincidence. A prophecy written centuries ago foretold that the last hunter of the Sterling family and the last Mother of Beasts would have a dual-blooded offspring: a child capable of uniting humans and creatures or forever destroying the barrier that separates their worlds. Someone knew that prophecy. Someone deliberately conjured the storm, led Mark to you, and ensured neither of you could leave the village that night. Now that same person awaits the hybrid's birth, though neither you nor Mark yet know who it is or what they intend to do with him. For the first time, Mark must decide whether to remain the hunter the Order created or become the protector of that which he swore to destroy. And as the birth approaches, they will both have to discover if their child is destined to save the world, condemn it... or build a completely new one.

Updated September 23, 2026