Normally, copying index.php file for the theme as search.php will let you have a new base template to work off of with the same styles and look as your theme, assuming the theme implemented index.php decently.
That would give you a solid start to be able to make changes to provided nothing is using a hook such as template_redirect to hijack the search results and use some other template to display them.
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