A/N: Well, I'm back from my long journey, I mean, hiatus. ;

Anyway, enjoy the story, it's new and improved version of 'Love Is Magic'

Disclaimer: CCS does not belong to me, it belongs to CLAMP and always will be.

Third Time's a Charm

Prologue

In another dimension, not so far from that of where humans live, there lived a race call the Genie, who were like humans in all aspects but one: the had magic abilities.

The Genie divide into seven clans and our story begins in one such clan, the Li Clan...

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Lord Cheng of the Li Clan, King of Li'ko, the land that belonged to his clan since forever, paced to and fro in the hallway, occasionally stopping next to a certain door and trying to listen to what was going on on the other side, then resumed his pacing.

A man, a little older than him, came from the end of the hallway and walked up to him, smiling, Cheng stooped his pacing and greeted the man, "Hello, Wei."

"Hello, Lord Cheng," Wei returned the greeting and at seeing how nervous the man before was, he placed a claming hand on the other man's shoulder, "Relax; you've gone through this before, haven't you?"

"Yes, I have, and remember how nervous I was then?" Cheng half smiled at the memory.

"Oh, I remember," Wei said, "I had to give you three glasses of wine for you to relax." He chuckled, remembered how "relaxed" his king has been after those three glasses.

Suddenly, the door the two of them have been standing in front of opened and a woman with robed bearing the Li Clan Symbol appeared.

Cheng was very nervous when he asked, "Well?"

The doctor smiled and motioned for him to come inside, "You can come now, Your Highness."

Cheng nodded to Wei in farewell and walked into the room, the doctor closing the door behind, to give more privacy.

Cheng smiled when eyes met those of the woman's who sat in the bed, cradling a bundle of blankets.

The woman, though tired-looking and with black hair matted in sweat, still looked very regal. When she saw Cheng, she smiled, "Come Cheng,

Come see our son."

Cheng approached the bed and very carefully took the baby from his wife's arms, and he looked down to see his son for the first time.

He was red, little and wrinkly, with a fluff of brown hair on his head, but Cheng could this boy is strong.

"What shall we name him, Yelan?" He asked his wife.

"How about you name him?" Yelan suggested, "after all, I named our daughters."

"Good idea." He agreed, "Now let's see..." at that moment, the baby opened big amber-brown eyes, looked at his father for a moment and started to wail.

Cheng immediately gave him back to Yelan, who just breastfed him, like she's done before with his sisters, when he had enough, he fell sleep again.

"He has quite powerful lungs, doesn't he?" She joked.

"Yes, that was the quite a howl-" he stopped, his eyes widening, he looked at his wife with a smile, "I think I've found the perfect name for him."

"What is it?" Yelan asked in curiosity.

In a fatherly pride, Cheng said, "His name is Xio Lang."

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Not so far from Li'ko, one shadowed figure smiled in the dark, "The time has come." She said.

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A/N: Well, that's it for the prologue, how did you like it?

Please, R&R!