Predator tree limb

As the men watched, appalled and mesmerized, the creature shook off the last traces of vegetation. With its free arm it pulled its weapon out of nowhere, the sharp spearhead gleaming in the sunlight. Its mouth roared with fury, and with one sweep it slashed angrily at a limb eight inches thick, severing the heavy wood and sending it plummeting to the ground.

  Ramirez didn’t see the severed limb in time, and it struck him with a thudding blow to the shoulder, lifting him off his feet and hurling him backward into the underbrush. When he landed his shirt was torn from belly to shoulder, exposing a deep gouge in his chest that erupted with spurts of black-red blood.

   The Predator (1987 novelization), chapter 14