Based on the Dark Crystal movie and also based on many Dark
Crystal books that I have read. And the alien men are based
off of Star Wars. Imagine them as you will. Human like, but
still an alien race. Don't own rights to Dark Crystal.

The Chamberlain was wandering the halls, going on to his next job around the castle, though he felt miserable that another idea of how to gain the Emperor's favor back had failed again.

He went on looking at the floor, not minding much of anything when out of nowhere, he felt a sharp prick in his neck. He couldn't help but scream in pain.

His left hand went up to his neck to feel at the sore spot and he felt something, then he pulled at it and it came out of his skin. He looked at the needle and bottle with a mad glare.

Chamberlain had only seen needles when they were used for sewing clothes, and that was usually the Ornamentalist's job. But he wasn't anywhere around this part of the castle at this time of day.

"Shouldn't we go and get him now?" One of the men asked.

"No wait. We wait until the drug takes effect and he's out first. We don't want him to see us just yet." The leader said quietly.

The men continued to watch the Skeksis as the drug took effect.

As Chamberlain looked around for signs of where this thing could have come from, all of a sudden, he noticed his vision began to get blurry on him.

He shook his head, but it only got worse. He whimpered as dizziness began to come on too. He put a hand on his head. Now he wasn't feeling so good.

He tried walking away from the spot to maybe confront SkekEkt about this needle, but he was beginning to stumble in his walking attempts. He could see the wall and made it to the wall and placed a hand on the wall to steady himself, but as the drug got stronger, Chamberlain just felt so tired.

His legs gave way and he fell to his knees, his hands landing in all fours way and the needle rolled away from his hand. Chamberlain moaned and whimpered some more.

"Oh, what's wrong with me?" SkekSil asked himself.

He tried to stay awake, but it was too much. Finally, he fell to his left side, out cold.

"Finally! I thought he'd never go out!" The one man said.

"Now let's get him down here without having to worry about the others seeing us." The leader said.

The 3 men went over to the unconscious Skeksis and nudged him to make sure he was sleeping completely. His breathing was stable and he didn't stir. The men got to work with lifting him into the quiet of the lower floors where they could work in peace.

Chamberlain wasn't too heavy to lift, but heavy enough. The robes made him look bigger than he really was.

Once they had him down in the catacombs, they laid him down gently on his back. They laid his head on a pillow one of them supplied. Then they got to work.

Starting at the legs, they began to pull the clothing up to reveal Chamberlain's underside. It wasn't the prettiest site, but they needed to examine the organs in his lower body. But they did raise the clothing up enough to see what he had on his front side.

He did look a little fat in the belly, and above that, Chamberlain did actually have breasts too.

To the men, this did ask a question whether or not the Skeksis was part female or not. They were about to find out by getting a look at the internal organs.

The ultrasound machine was started up and gelled up, as was Chamberlain's belly.

These men were experts in lizard studies, so they knew what to look for if this Skeksis was anything like lizards back home.

The man doing the ultrasound found some digestive organs and then found what looked to be the reproductive organs. Chamberlain had both male and female organs inside him.

"Wow! He does have female organs too. We have to give that to him. He's a hermaphrodite! The others must be too."

"So what are we going to do?"

"We are going to give Chamberlain something to call his own for a change. Babies!"

"But which Skeksis is going to be the father if he's going to be the mother?"

"Chamberlain will be both parents. We collect sperm from his male organs and inject them into the female organs. I'll give him some hormones to make the female organs active and ovulate. We are going to do this all now. Then we'll wait a few weeks and see what happens."

One man was watching Chamberlain's breathing. While the leader was getting the hormones ready and collection tubes, the last man kept the probe on SkekSil's belly.

The leader, once he was ready, got the Skeksis sexually aroused in his sleep, and collected some semen from him. He then examined it by microscope. There were plenty of fertile sperm in the semen.

Then he prepared the semen for injection into the female organs. But first, he gave Chamberlain an injection in the side that would stimulate the ovaries to ovulate eggs. Very carefully, the man injected the semen through Chamberlain's belly and into the female reproductive tract. He didn't want to mess with the nether parts.

"You sure that will be enough sperm in there, Boss?" The man assisting with the ultrasound asked.

"It should be. Lizards can store sperm if needed. Now all we can do is wait. If it doesn't work this time, then we'll try again in a month or so. Just watch for any signs it took, like if he doesn't feel well later on and such. Pregnant creatures often don't feel good in the beginning."

Once the exam was over, Chamberlain was cleaned up and taken back up to the place where he went down. Then he was given the wake up drug. He had stayed unconscious the whole time and his vitals had remained okay.

The men gathered their stuff and left SkekSil alone. His clothing had also been pulled down again so he wouldn't suspect anything had happened to him. The men would only continue to watch him, and more now that they were hoping that he would get pregnant.

They suspected he might get pregnant with eggs, but it was possible for live birth too. But first, it was just the waiting.

...

Chamberlain soon came around. He was dizzy in the head, and his vision was blurry at first, but when it focused again, he saw he was lying on the floor in the hallway.

"What am I doing here?" He asked to no one.

SkekSil slowly and dizzily got to his feet with the help of leaning on the wall. He whined with the feeling he had in his head. He didn't feel good right now.

Chamberlain made some clumsy steps as he was trying to go about his business again. He had now forgotten all about that needle. He just wanted to get out of here.

After he was gone, the men collected that needle. None of the other Skeksis could see it or know about it. Especially not the Scientist.

Chamberlain ended up stumbling to his bedroom instead of going to dinner. His vision still had blurry moments and he was dizzy. If he ate now, he felt he was going to be sick. Chamberlain just had a real early turn in. He knew the others wouldn't miss him, though he had no idea what time of day it was. He had been out for a little while. Even his stomach felt kind of funky.

...

At the dinner table, none of the others missed SkekSil's whining voice, though the Emperor did ask if anyone had seen him. Nods of no and sayings of no were heard.

The clan just wanted a good enough peaceful dinner without the annoying one there.

...

After dinner, there were a few more chores to do before bedtime.

The Historian was on his way back to his library when he happened to pass by the Chamberlain's room. He heard the whimpering voice and heavy breathing.

He looked into the dark room and saw the bundle under the blankets. Chamberlain was in his own room. He had missed dinner, now that was unusual for him.

Most of the time, the Skeksis were not in their bedrooms during the day unless they were sleeping and didn't feel well. This was the case of SkekSil.

The Historian went into his room and woke him up. "Chamberlain! Wake up!"

"Hmmm! Wha?" He moaned.

"The Emperor asked where you were at dinner. You missed dinner." Historian said.

"Hmmm. Not feel good. Just want to sleep." Chamberlain replied. He laid his head back down.

"Fine. But it won't be good if the Emperor is needing you." Historian said and walked out of the room.

Chamberlain sighed. Did the Emperor need him right now? He could talk to him later. He didn't talk to him that much anyway. He went back to sleep, hoping that in the morning he would feel better.

...

In the morning, Chamberlain woke up feeling better now that he had slept off the drug. He felt hungry too and went down for some breakfast.

He saw the stares he got from the others, though they mainly ignored him. But the Emperor had mind to talk to him this morning.

"So Chamberlain, where were you last night?" The Emperor demanded.

"I, uh, went to sleep early, Sire. I got sick last night. I'm better now and ready if you need me." Chamberlain explained.

"Fine. Just do your duties after breakfast. Just so unusual for you to miss a meal." The Emperor said.

"Hmmm." SkekSil whined. He knew what he had to do around here.

Was trying something different. There are a few hermaphrodites in this world, like snails for example. Hermaphrodites are both sexes in one body. No flames please. And the Skeksis in a note from Jim Henson said that he never classified them as either specifically as male or female, they were just always called a he.

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