In the heart of Republic City, Kuvira sprinted into the Spirit Forest in hopes of losing her pursuer, Avatar Korra. She did NOT intend to go down without a fight. She was quickly losing this battle. She knew this as soon as the avatar and her friends had cut into her giant mecha-suit and brought her greatest weapon down.

"Kuvira!" she heard the avatar call, "Give up!"

It seemed hopeless for her, but then she spotted something caught in the vines high above ground. She stopped in her tracks in shock, but after a few moments, a malicious smile formed on her face. She had an idea.

Korra raced through the spirit forest in hopes of Kuvira stopping and just giving herself up. She didn't want any more blood spilled today after Hiroshi Sato's tragic sacrifice.

"Please," she begged hoping Kuvira would see reason, "stop this madness!"

She proceeded to walk forward knowing Kuvira was injured and unable to fight her directly.

"It has to end now!" she called out.

She was starting to feel nervous and worried that she wouldn't be able to locate her.

"If you really want to end it," she heard to her right in the distance, "then come and get me!"

Korra took off into the distance where she heard Kuvira issue her bold challenge to face her. She was feeling even more nervous than she was before with the way her voice spoke with so much confidence and malice. What trick did she have up her sleeve?

She burst through some bushes to a clearing where she heard Kuvira only to look up and gasp in shock at what she was seeing.

The spirit-vine cannon (that she thought to be destroyed) was suspended above the ground by other vines in the forest aiming directly at her. She spotted Kuvira near the top, next to the firing mechanism, wearing an evil, but determined, look on her face.

"Now," Kuvira started, "its over."

Korra thrust her hand forward.

"DON'T!" She tried in vain to warn her. But Kuvira didn't listen.

She thrust the mechanism forward and the cannon sprung to life and within a few seconds of charging, it fired directly at the Avatar. But Korra was one step ahead of her. She had managed to leap out of the way of the cannons blast but it continued to fire, and without anything locking it in place, the cannon started to spin out of control. The spirit-vines around the cannon fueled its power to beyond critical levels.

Both Kuvira and Korra saw this.

"SHUT IT DOWN!" Korra yelled out over the cannon.

Kuvira thrust the mechanism back into its "off" position, but the spirit-vines kept fueling its power.

"I CAN'T!" Kuvira called out helplessly.

The cannon was spinning so fast now that it managed to throw Kuvira into the dirt below. She looked up at the cannon from her position on the ground to only gasp in fear. The cannons beam was heading straight for her and she was too weak to move out of the way in time.

Korra saw this and made a split-second decision. She jumped in front of Kuvira and activated her avatar state. She used her own spiritual energy to keep the spirit beam at bay. But she started to feel immense pain from doing so, but wouldn't relent. Her muscles started to harden and she couldn't feel most of her limbs.

And it was spreading across her body.

She caught a glimpse of a yellow beam of light getting shot out into the sky and let a single tear slip down her face.

"I love you Mako." she whispered right before her world went dark.

Mako and Bolin emerged from a destroyed part of the giant mecha-suit to look up at the beautiful beam of light being cast into the sky from the middle of Republic City.

Bolin could only stare in awe, but Mako felt a strange twist in his gut he hadn't felt since his parents tragic demise. He decided to ignore it for now and follow his brother so he could get a closer look.

There he met up with Tenzin and his kids.

"A new spirit portal." he heard Tenzin exclaim in awe and disbelief.

Mako could only think of one person who could be responsible for such a thing.

"Korra," he thought with a smile.

They proceeded to walk closer to the portal where they saw Kuvira standing looking at the portal in shock. Chief Beifong (who had recently arrived) quickly put platinum handcuffs on her but it seemed as if Kuvira hadn't noticed.

Mako stared at her in confusion and decided to take a closer look at the portal. He turned to look at the portal and all his joy and happiness turned into sorrow, disbelief, shock, as well as many other emotions. He fell to his knees and tears started to stream down his face in rivers as he held back a sob.

"No," he thought, "not her, please anyone but her."

There, standing next to the portal was Korra, the love of his life. But she wasn't moving. Her face was set with an emotion that betrayed sadness, but acceptance. She was in a stance that told she was holding something off but her once mocha colored skin, water tribe colored clothes, beautiful blue eyes, and hair were all colored gray. Upon closer inspection, Mako realized his suspicions were realized as well as his sorrow. He let lose everything he was holding back as the rest of the people around could only stare in shock.

Korra had been turned to stone.

This was something I had thought up when watching this scene in the finale. Feel free to review about it but go easy on me. This is my first fanfiction and I'm not sure what you guys will think about it :)