Predator Blain is speared through the heart

He spun around, raising his rifle a second too late, only to be greeted by the alien’s spear streaking toward him like a guided missile. The creature attacked in its own concept of time, a blurred streak inhumanly fast, measured by the millisecond. The razor sharp weapon entered Blain’s back at the base of the spine, ripping through the spinal column with a force so awesome it cut through bone and burst out through his chest. He just had time to let out a half-scream that drowned out all the rest of the jungle, the screeching parrots and blue-hair monkeys, the million cicadas whizzing their legs.

Grotesquely, the tip of the alien spearhead pierced Blain’s heart and rocketed it out of the body, the organ attached to the tip like a macabre trophy. A hundred Mayan priests sighed in their temple graves. Then the deadly weapon slammed into the side of a bamboo tree, and the heart exploded in a bloody pulp that clung to the bark, the veiny red flesh as weird as an alien presence itself. Blain’s body, which stood dead on its feet for seconds that would have seemed like hours to an observer, at last keeled over on the ground. The cavernous hole through Blain’s chest was big enough for the tapir to crawl through.

Close by, Mac heard the short burst of Blain’s wail and scrambled up the canyon toward the sound. As he charged into the clearing where Blain had stood moments before he saw nothing but a newly roughed-up track of dirt; then beyond, the alien’s spear still vibrating from the impact with the tree. With his M-22 readied, Mac stalked closer in time to hear a strange wet sucking sound like a famished peasant pulling a bowl of soup to his lips.

He stopped for a second and listened, bewildered, then pushed aside a red fern leaf and saw the retreat of the mighty, two-legged creature—not ape, not man, but warrior without a doubt—as it raced off into the trees. Laying on the ground just inches away was the shell of Blain’s body. Mac looked down and saw his partner’s deflated corpse emptied of its organs, a kidney and a few feet of intestines strewn nearby, dropped accidentally by the monster as it flashed away.

   The Predator (1987 novelization), chapter 11