Maiden. Iron Fuckin' Maiden. You've been waiting for six months to get to this concert. It all started about 8 months ago when you met Him online. You started chatting and just getting to know each other. You found that you both like the same music, the same style of clothes, just about everything. Then 6 months ago he asks if you wanted to go to a concert with him. You weren't too sure about it, you had only been talking with him for a few months and out of the blue he asks you to a concert. At first he said that he would let you think on it. Then about a month later he asked again. But this time he told you what concert he wanted to take you to. Maiden. You almost instantly said yes but then you thought again about if he was some kind of freak. Well more of the homicidal freak that is. But his plan is what convinced you.
He mailed you the ticket. Telling you that you could come or not. But how could you refuse now that you had the ticket. His plan was that you would go to the concert, not meeting till inside, that he would be wearing something that would make him stand out. When you saw him and decided that you didn't want to meet that would be fine. Just enjoy the concert.
Now here you are. At the entrance to the stadium, thousands of fans just pressing into lines as they all try to get into the double doors all at once. You look at your ticket and wonder which entrance you should head to. A security guard smiles down at you when you ask him and points you towards an entrance that has only a few hundred people in the line. When you ask him about it, he says that you have a VIP ticket, which means you get to go in the backstage entrance. You stare at him, shocked. Shrugging you head to the line and you get inside in no time. It's a little strange going in the back way. There are all the little things that other don't get to see. People running back and forth getting crazy, trying to get the concert to happen. You even glimpse Bruce Dickinson as he goes back into the dressing room. The Guide, yes you have a guide, is taking you to your "seats". Its actually front row passes. You'll be close enough for them to sweat on you.
As you make your way through the backstage the guide tells the group that at the end of the concert, if the band isn't tooooo tired, they will come back and do a meet and greet. You cannot believe your ears. You might actually get to MEET Iron Maiden. The guide slowly pushes open a side door and suddenly your ears are assaulted with the noise of the 30000 fans that are inside the stadium. She shows you that front pit. Its about 20 feet from the front of the rest of the people out there. So only you and a couple of hundred other people get to be right up front. You just can't believe that you get to be right up front. You want to kiss the person who gave you the ticket, but you haven't seen anyone that has really stood out yet.
The lights dim and everyone goes nuts, but it's only the lead band. No one special, at least not to you. You can here to see Maiden, and that's all you really care about. Other than the mystery man that is out there somewhere. The curious little band leaves the stage and the whole stadium is breathless in its wait for the band they all came to see step out on stage. The almost godly voice of the announcer rumbles through the stadium. It announces that Iron Maiden will be out in just a few moments. It calls for all of the fans to beg for them to come out. Slowly the chant begins. Within moments you join the call, MAIDEN, MAIDEN, MAIDEN.
There is an eternity of Maidens chanted, before the lights of the stage explode in the chaos of a pyrotechnic display. Fire blossoms at the front of the stage as the under working slowly bring the band up from underneath. They rise as if from the grave, the great melodic riff running through your body. The music assaults both your body and your ears. Being so close to the stage is amazing. It feels as if the music is running through your whole body before it echoes off towards the rest of the crowd. You let the rage and the fire of the band take your body and throw it about. You almost dance as if you are possessed. Even as you dance, you watch the others in the pit, and see them succumbing to the same power. Everybody's bodies seem to wither and move as if in pain but the looks on their faces is pure joy as Maiden continues on the stage. After about 5 songs you feel the need to rest, as if you continued you might not survive the night. So slowly you make your way to the side, gently guiding your body through the rest.
You are almost out of the trembling chaos of bodies with you feel a hand on your arm. You turn to attack your assailant, expecting some fool that thinks that just because you're dressed for sex means it's for him. But the vision that confronts you is even more disturbing than man bent on rape. The being that has you is Death itself. That is the first thought that flows out of your mind. It has a skull's face; eye sockets empty as the grave it crawled out of. A blood-freezing scream erupts from the center of your being but it is lost in the noise of the crowd and the band. In a flash, the being has its hand over your mouth and slowly moves you towards the exit. You struggle and fight with it, but its limbs as much more powerful than yours. It pushes you through the door and slams it shut. The voice that issues from behind the skull is low and deep. It almost makes you body quiver as much as the music did.