Fua Duelist

Fua Duelist 不亞（ふあ）デュエリスト (Fua De~yuerisuto) ガルド (Garudo)
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Fua Duelists (also known as GARDE) are an organization of duelists formed by Zakira in order to kill every single Duelist in the world so they can attain paradise.

Anime

Actions and World Under Chaos

They were featured in Duel Masters Charge, Duel Masters Cross and Duel Masters Cross Shock seasons of the Duel Masters anime.

GARDE has a total of 26 members, each using an initial of the English alphabet.

• Each member is ranked in strength in descending order from Z to A.
  • This means that Zakira (Z) is the strongest member, while Ash (A) is considered to be the weakest.

Zakira first took down an organization called Chimeras because they were the followers of Darkness Civilization and they could later become a potential danger for him. So he killed their leader Kimera and left Kokujo all alone. He used one of his members, Vavelle, to infiltrate the organization and tell him their weakness which Kokujo, the youngest member of the Chimera group had sworn to try and protect. However, Kokujo killed Vavelle after a Duel of Truth.

Zakira then went to the Duel Masters Colosseum where he stole the power from Yaesar who was the previous guardian of the Great Spirit of Duel Masters but Zakira soon lost this power against Shori Kirifuda in the Great Kaijudo Duel Masters Tournament. The power of the Duel Masters got distributed into 7 different cards called the Awakening Cards. He then began to look for these cards, finding out that the Awakening cards can only be used by a specific few people. Zakira found out that Hakuoh was one of these people so he kidnapped and brainwashed him with the help of his other members. Through a ritual, he gave him a second personality and made him believe that he is White, and marking him as "W" in the organization.

Their home base is known as Fua Castle which converts into a fortress by the power of the Awakening Cards. They have also built a device called the Judgment Table that can bring down upon the ultimate destruction in the form of Judgment Ball.

Fua Duelists were able to obtain Bolberg Cross Dragon, Alphadios, Lord of Spirits, Elupheus, Lord of Spirits, Soul Phoenix, Avatar of Unity as well as Dual Shock Dragon which was able to transformed the castle into a flying disc-shaped fortress.

Manga

The first 17 members of GARDE was an organization of Duelists who were former followers of Zeus. However, Zeus was defeated by Zakira in a battle, and the members of GARDE all chose to follow Zakira instead of Zeus, who later became the Master of the Temple. Thanks to a blessing from Adam, members of GARDE cannot be hurt in any way other than via a Duel, and if they suffer from wounds, the wounds will regenerate themselves over time.

Some time before Zakira's first World tournament massacre, Rich and Shizuka joined Zakira under promises of power only to find themselves brainwashed to forget their love.

Zakira considers all of his fellow GARDE members as friends, but is extremely intolerant to failure. Those who fail are often executed or branded traitors.

Zakira then joined Yaesar, but was feigning subservience was secretly planning an operation to destroy all duelists, eventually killing many of them in the first world tournament, with Shori Kirifuda failing to stop them and Kokujo's entire clan massacred (GARDE also convinced Kokujo's clan leader to join them in the massacre, something that enraged Kokujo enough that he killed him in the resulting duel). Since then, they stole all seven of Yaesar's Duel Masters Proofs, sent spies to kill those who became Duel Masters and their families and committed other forms of atrocities for Zakira. Terrified of what her pact with Zakira made her and Rich do there, Shizuka also became catatonic and only woke up to kill other duelists. It's implied that Zakira also brainwashed Yaesar and converted him into Yesman, the Y member of the group and his right-hand.

Initial GARDE activity began when Zakira brainwashed his sister and sent her out for Bolmeteus Steel Dragon. She used Gyujiro as a mule and quickly backstabbed him when he was no longer of any use to her, then personally acts on her own only to be thwarted by Shobu and Extreme Bucketman.

The group makes itself known right after, where Zakira personally shows up alongside Perfect and Quattro to steal Bolmeteus Steel Dragon. He pretends to forgive his sister, but in actuality, he already branded her a traitor, and Ash was deployed to steal the card from Yu, which he did by snagging it directly from his hand. Mimi, Shobu and Rekuta chase them until they meet each other in a park where Zakira and his duelists effortlessly crush Shobu and co. and run with the card. Hakuoh also took a mortal blow from Zakira, causing him to lose his memories and regress to a child-like state, which Gedo later takes advantage to brainwash and take to Zakira for his own use.

Zakira then orders the rest of the GARDE to grab the awakening cards for him as well as to take Yu Fua back. Despite Oasis is defeated by Shobu on his way to Bombazar, Dragon of Destiny, Hendrix and Imelda show up to steal the card. Alphadios, Lord of Spirits and Heavyweight Dragon were stolen by Jason and Kirumi, but they fail to take Fua Yu. Shobu, on his way to the Fua Castle, encounters Zakira and duels him. He was defeated in six turns despite an impressive comeback attempt and was about to be killed by Zakira's Death Phoenix, Avatar of Doom, only for Potman to take the blow and die. Despite Shobu remains alive, Hendrix manages to directly steal Bolsred Fire Dragon from Shobu's hand.

With all Awakening Cards obtained, GARDE's castle becomes a flying spaceship and Zakira begins his massacre against all duelists in the world. The master duelist hunters, the After R also show up to abduct any duelists they can find and hand them over to Zakira. Rich and Shizuka attempted to kidnap Shobu and Kokujo only to fail and were promptly executed by Zakira for their failures. Thoth enslaved and coerced children in Egypt, manipulated friends and foes to fight each other and managed to abduct Horus. Zakira himself personally defeated Toy and Esmeralda and abducted them. Fourtunately, their plan failed because of Dr. Root's timely intervention and Vavelle's failure to take him down. It was also revealed that Hakuoh was brainwashed by Zakira post-abduction and was given a new identity, White. Xanadu and Yesman were tasked to hunt down Kokujo and Southern Cross in Antartica, only for the two Duel Masters to be whisked away to Japan by Southern Cross's former owner. Xanadu would however, remain in Antarctica for a "side mission" (implied to be arranging for Adam's resurrection with her real superiors behind Zakira's back) while Yesman returns to Zakira to participate in the upcoming GARDE massacre. Yuu was allegedly on a side mission hunting for Duelists in America, although it's implied that was actually Yu Fua infiltrating GARDE to prevent duelists from landing onto Zakira's hands and was with Extreme Bucketman all the time. Zakira also raided an Indian temple personally, beat up a bunch of monks defending Heavy Death Metal and stole the God cards to use in the World Tournament.

During the World Tournament, Zakira publicly broadcasts White's duel with Yesman to humiliate the former and declaring him as yet another traitor. Yesman defeats Hakuoh despite having several of his shields broken and kills him. All GARDE members bar Thoth, Yuu, Vavelle and Xanadu then gathered and shown up to unleash a massacre against everyone in the vicinity of the first tournament, trying to kill anyone they come across just like they did decades ago prior. Out of anger, Shobu challenges Zakira to a duel, defeating him in a difficult fight. Shobu does not kill Zakira to prove that dueling is for fun and not for murdering the loser. Zakira gives up the massacre attempt and flees alongside the rest of the GARDE.

Destruction

In Shobu's final saga, it was revealed that their powers and their ship came from Adam. Adam removed all of the Fua Duelist's powers upon his wrath, and all of the lower members of the Fua Duelists were massacred by the fake Xanadu and her clones as a result, while Zakira and Ash were killed by Adam himself.

Legacy

However, the remnants of the Fua Duelists still remains. 10 years after Shobu's final battle for the future, Basara visits the ruins of the destroyed Adam's tower to find a way to unlock Forbidden's true power. He eventually encounters an image of Zakira and duels him in a True Duel to determine his worthiness. Basara obtains Dokindam X, The Legendary Forbidden and the ruins collapses even further, with Zakira's image completely faded from the world. Eventually, Katta Kirifuda, Shobu's younger brother indirectly ended the wicked legacy of the Fua Duelists by destroying Dormageddon X, Forbidden Armageddon in a similar battle of fate.

Judgment Table

Zakira

Judgment Ball

Fua Castle

Fua Fortress

White

Members of "After the Revolution" (After-R).

Members of the Fua Duelists

Duel Masters Charge

Letter:	Name:	Japanese Name:
A	Ash	アッシュ
B	Bura	ブラー
C	Chappi	チャッピー
D	Delicious	デリシャス
E	El Rio	エルリオ
F	Force	フォース
G	Gedo	ゲドー
H	Hendrix	ヘンドリクス
I	Imelda	イメルダ
J	Jason	ジェイソン
K	Kirumi	キルミー
L	Love	ラブ
M	Manson	Dr.マンソン
N	Never	ネバー
O	Oasis	オアシス
P	Perfect	パーフェクト
Q	Quattro	クアトロ

After the Revolution (After-R)
Within the 26 Fua Duelists from A-Z, there lies a group of duelists that protect Zakira whose talent far surpasses any other. These duelists are strong enough to send the world into complete disarray. These Fua Duelists appeared in the Duel Masters Cross season.

Letter:	Name:	Japanese Name:
R	Rich	リッチ
S	Shizuka	シズカ
T	Thoth	トト
U	Yuu	ユウ
V	Vavelle	バベル
W	White	ホワイト
X	Xanadu	キサナドゥ
Y	Yesman	イエスマン
Z	Zakira	不亞･ザキラ

Trivia

• The Fua Duelists might be the strongest and the most dangerous criminal organization in Duel Masters history due to its massive size, complicated and ordered organization, and extremely dangerous and intelligent personalities from the top to bottom, even when it comes to the lowest ranking kids of the group.
• The Fua Duelists were incredibly diverse ethnically, with its members hailing from 15 different countries.
  • Interestingly, the only Fua Duelists who are explicitly stated of Japanese origin are Quattro and White.
  • Perfect and Xanadu were the only Fua Duelists whose nationality was unknown. In the case of the latter, it might be due to her being an impersonation by one of Adam's minions instead of Zakira's own men.
  • Out of the 26 duelists, 10 (Ash, Gedo, Jason, Kirumi, Never, Oasis, Rich, Shizuka, Yesman and Zakira himself) originated from Europe.