User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Trials of Apollo Official Discussion/@comment-25044056-20151022151131/@comment-24057651-20151022203120

Yes, but Python was easy for him to kill. That must be a larger enemy, maybe someone controlling Python.

In my fanfiction, Medea is still alive and she controlled the Colchian Drakon, the Ismenian Drakon AND the Python to do her bidding.