Outline:

4 Seasons and the various stages of acceptance.

Cast of characters:

Ku Lon - Elder

Happosai - Elder

Ranma – Factotum, tactician

Akane – peace maker

Nabiki – logistics, technology development,

Tofu - doctor

Kasumi - nurse

Soun – requisitions

Genma – requisitions

Nodoka - nursury

Ukyo – food logistics and storage

Konatsu - kenjutsu

Kuno - kendo

Kodachi - horticulture

Akari – heavy lifting, animal husbandry

Ryoga – heavy lifting, mechanic

Shampoo - scout

Mousse – pack horse, mechanic

Hinako – education, curriculum development, and librarian/knowledge management

Taro – Arial support, supplies

Pairs – Ku Lon, Happi (not really) – Akane, Ranma – Ukyo Konatsu – Nabiki Kuno – Tofu – Kasumi – Soun Hinako – Genma Nodoka – Akari Ryoga – Shampoo Mousse – Kodachi Taro.

Fall: Outbreak occurs. Cause unknown.

Ranma spots copters, Akane, Nabiki, and he head to Tendo Dojo, along with school mates. Run into their first cases along the way. Expendable generic highschool student dies. Phone lines overwhelmed, panic ensues. Power fails. Water fails. Food runs out.

Nerima ward is defended at first, but the martial artists can't be everywhere at once, and people die. Food and water situation is problematic. People gather at the dojo, and it is overcrowded. Ramshackle defenses erected. Raids to gather weapons, food, and other necessities from stores commence. Capable martial artist begin zombie patrols in order to keep populations under control. As the number of survivors/rescued people increase, the decision is made to move with as many survivors as they can find out of the city, in order to better defend themselves and have access to land, water, etc.

Raids on camping stores to gather enough tents, camping supplies, knives, etc. Martial arts classes begin for all residents. Once all are packed, the move begins as fall draws to a close. The plan is to hike to the port, and take a ship to either tateyama or atami.

Winter:

The move to winter camp is brutal, as the first snows set in early due to the lack of vehicles, electricity, and other stuff to hold the weather at bay. The large column of moving people provided ample opportunities for zombie fodder, and the number is much reduced from the original. The battle at the port is fast and furious, and a number of people die trying to get on a transport. Once transport is secured, there's still a problem of getting there.

Most of the winter is spent simply trying to keep warm, fed, and the restive population under control. Construction of a palisade town, much in the fashion of an Amazon village, begins. Ku Lon is defacto leader. Romances heat up at this point. In addition, realization that normal social mores and expectations no longer hold. Ku Lon pressures Ranma (and others) into accepting that any fertile female should consider it a duty to procreate; exclusive relationships are a luxury that can't be afforded. Couples pair off. Optional lemons.

The zombie numbers seem to be tapering off, and in the deep winter few if any are spotted during scouting and raiding tours.

Spring:

Spring brings a resurgence of zombies. Realization sets in that the problem won't solve itself, as even the rotted corpses are animated and still lethal. Parties are no longer scout parties, but war parties designed to thin the numbers as much as possible, and search for other enclaves.

Unfortunately, the other enclaves they find are in a bad state. Some are basically sane but severely struggling, others have become feral. The process of bringing others into the fold becomes problematic, and conflicts break out. Some enclaves have guns, and the fighters get injured. One of the main cast of characters should die.

Of course tensions spike, but an outright conflict is avoided as it would be devastating for the complex. Spring planting begins; Kodachi, resident horticulturalist, supervises.

Summer:

Civilization has fallen. Commune sends out scouts to examine the rest other cities in Japan. Search for other communes proves unfruitful. Requisitions step up as realization this is a long term prospect sets in. Decision to save knowledge stepped up, and buildings, furniture, and other materials secured to create a bastion of learning martial arts and knowledge. First generation of children are born as the summer draws to a close. Fade away to contemplative mood, ending on positive note. "Perhaps this time, we'll get it right."

Flash forward

Year 5 – development of magic tech and ki tech – ability to re-industrialize and explore

Year 10 – eradication of scourge in Japan

Year 20 – First international expeditions to liberate other countries.

Survivors tales

We didn't know it then, but it was the end of the world. Or at least, it was the end of the world as we knew it. I think that we'd been living with insanity so long it took us a while to realize that things weren't going to ever be "normal" again.

Ranma Saotome, heir to the Saotome School of Indiscriminate Grappling School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, was currently ignoring the teacher droning away at the front of the room. Ms. Hinako Ninomiya was blabbering away about the growth rate of potatoes in English; Ranma was pretty confident he would never really need to know how to say, "this potato has eyes on it" in a foreign language. He couldn't even think of why he needed to know how to say that in his own language.

Ranma knew he wasn't a great student. That was okay, though. After all, he was a martial artist. Not only was he a martial artist, he was one of the best, period.

After the ordeal with Saffron and the failed wedding at the Dojo, instead he turned his attention away from the class and out the window, idly daydreaming as birds flitted to and fro in the late summer sky. The first couple of weeks back at school after the summer break were always the hardest, because he'd gotten a bit out of practice at paying selective attention.

In the distance, a black bird zoomed by. Quickly.

Instead of paying even the slightest bit of attention to Ms. Hinako Ninomiya, who was currently in her child form, Ranma looked out the window as another bird flew by. Correction, helicopter. A third followed. What was going on?